Union Gap and Yakima County has declared a disaster, Jeff Emmons, Director of Emergency Management, announced at the meeting. A map of the updated area affected is attached to this story. Emmons said the county is on standby and ready for whatever happens.
The gestation periods of other animal reveals that the length of the gestation period is largely a matter of the animal specie's size. Asian elephants have a gestation period of 645 days and African elephants 640 days. Dogs and other canines have a gestation period of about 60, which is also the period for cats. Even within the species of apes and monkeys gestation period seem to be a matter of size.
Elephants are the largest living land mammals. The largest elephant recorded was one shot in Angola, 1974. It weighed 27,060 pounds and stood 13 feet 8 inches tall. Their skin colour is grey. At birth, an elephant calf may weigh 100 kg. The baby elephant develops for 20 to 22 months inside its mother. No other land animal takes this long to develop before being born. In the wild, elephants have strong family relationship. Their ways of acting toward other elephants are hard for people to underst