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Proboscidea

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ANIMAL KINGDOM

Proboscidea is an order in the animal taxonomy including only one family (the elephants with 2 species, the African elephant and the Asian (former Indian) elephant. During the period of the Ice Age there were more, now extinct species, like mammoths and mastodonts.