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Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct. Three living species of elephant are recognized: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Indian or Asian elephant; although some group the two African species into one and some researchers also postulate the existence of a fourth species in West Africa. All other species and genera of Elephantidae are extinct. Most have been extinct since the last ice age, although dwarf forms of mammoths might have survived as late as 2,000 BCE. Elephants and other Elephantidae were once classified with other thick-skinned animals in a now invalid order, Pachydermata.
Elephants are the largest living land animals on Earth today. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth, an elephant calf typically weighs 105 kilograms (230 lb). They typically live for 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1955. This male weighed about 10,900 kg (24,000 lb), with a shoulder height of 3.96 metres (13.0 ft), 1 metre (3.3 ft) taller than the average male African elephant. The smallest elephants, about the size of a calf or a large pig, were a prehistoric species that lived on the island of Crete during the Pleistocene epoch.
They will lock you up and throw away the key
Where no one will ever find you.
You were sent to destroy the world
You were meant to be the end of hope for all mankind
I'd been wasting away.
I let you get away so cleanly
Without a trace, without a sound
By now my hope for you has fleeted me
They will dig a hole and bury you
I wasted away so many days in hell
I wasted away so many days in hell with you
You were sent to destroy the world
You were meant to be the end of hope for all mankind
I'd wasted away so many days in knowing you.
I was a walking deadman living the truth with a liar by my side [x2]
I let you get away so cleanly
Without a trace, without a sound
By now my hope for you has fleeted me [x2]
I let you get away, without a sound