Elephanteria Gallery 5 How Elephants are used in Media Content
Textbook: Biology, Visualizing Life

Book Title: Biology, Visualizing Life (Annotated Teacher's Edition) The displayed page of this textbook deals with the classification structure used by biologists. It uses a very graphic chart of humans and other animals to illustrate what is meant by words in the classification hierarchy, being: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Kingdom is the broadest. The 'kingdom' illustrated is 'animalia' as opposed to fungi, plantae, and the other non-animal kingdoms. In the illustration there are a human, ape, elephant, snake, fish, etc. As the classification narrows, moving down the chart, we come to 'species', here represented by a single human. WHY an ELEPHANT ? The elephant represents large mammals and appears until we get down to the 'order' primates. A bear is a large mammal. A moose, a rhinoceros, a hippopotamus and a giraffe all qualify to represent large mammals. This is simply one more example of the appeal of the elephant.

Authors: Albert Kaskel, Paul J. Hummer, Jr., Lucy Daniel (c) 1994 Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. printed in USA permissions dept 8th flr, Orlando FL 32887 ISBN 0-03-053814-9 pg 325; the classification of modern humans

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