Topic > ants, Sri Lankan elephants, Sumatran elephants and Indian elephants. There are other ways to distinguish African elephants from Asian ones. In addition to being smaller, Asian elephant ears are also straight at the bottom compared to the fan-shaped ears of African elephants. African elephants have three toes on the hind legs and five on the forefoot, while Asian elephants have four toes on the hind legs and five on the forefoot (World Wildlife Fund [WWF], 2015). Of all the differences between Asian and African elephants, it's important to note that while all African elephants have tusks (even females), only some male Asian elephants (not females) have tusks. For this reason, the greatest threat to Asian elephants is the loss of their habitat, although poaching may increase in the near future. There is little research on