<P> Skin colour is usually grey, and may be masked by soil because of dusting and wallowing . Their wrinkled skin is movable and contains many nerve centers . It is smoother than that of African elephants, and may be depigmented on the trunk, ears, or neck . The epidermis and dermis of the body average 18 mm (0.71 in) thick; skin on the dorsum is 30 mm (1.2 in) thick providing protection against bites, bumps, and adverse weather . Its folds increase surface area for heat dissipation . They can tolerate cold better than excessive heat . Skin temperature varies from 24 to 32.9 ° C (75.2 to 91.2 ° F). Body temperature averages 35.9 ° C (96.6 ° F). </P> <P> Asian elephants are highly intelligent and self - aware . They have a very large and highly convoluted neocortex, a trait also shared by humans, apes and certain dolphin species . Elephants have a greater volume of cerebral cortex available for cognitive processing than all other existing land animals, and extensive studies place elephants in the category of great apes in terms of cognitive abilities for tool use and tool making . They exhibit a wide variety of behaviours, including those associated with grief, learning, allomothering, mimicry, play, altruism, use of tools, compassion, cooperation, self - awareness, memory, and language . Elephants are reported to go to safer ground during natural disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes, although there have been no scientific records of this since it is hard to recreate or predict natural disasters . </P> <P> Asian elephants inhabit grasslands, tropical evergreen forests, semi-evergreen forests, moist deciduous forests, dry deciduous forests and dry thorn forests, in addition to cultivated and secondary forests and scrublands . Over this range of habitat types elephants occur from sea level to over 3,000 m (9,800 ft). In the eastern Himalaya in northeast India, they regularly move up above 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in summer at a few sites . </P> <P> In China, Asian elephants survive only in the prefectures of Xishuangbanna, Simao, and Lincang of southern Yunnan . </P>

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