Elephant

By Carolina Riley

Physical Features/Description

• Elephants weigh 16,500• They have wrinkled skin• There trunk helps them

to eat• It is the biggest land

animal• Has big floppy ears

• They use their tusks to scrape bark from tree’s

• Has six sets of molar’s for grinding up food

• It’s trunk is made up of 100,000 muscles and no bones

• Can grow up to 20 to 25 feet tall feet tall

Habitat

• Lives in forests, bushes, and grassy places

• For shade calf’s go under their mother’s stumach

• Enimies are lion’s, tiger’s and hyenas

• lives in warm climet• Lives in the Sahara desert

• Lives in many different places like Savannahs, rain forests and mountins

Diet/Behavior

• A half in hour after the calf is born it can walk

• If enemies are there they suck up water and spry them

• They eat trees grass bushes and leaves

• Mothers can drink up to 53 gallons of water a day

• There vegetarians so they only eat grass and plants

• They need lots of room to walk around

Interesting Facts

• Elephants spend sixteen hours a day looking for food

• The trunk is six feet long 8.1 meters

Photo Credits

• Image: 'Play Time' http://www.flickr.com/photos/20878641@N00/272080926Image: 'And When I Grow Up !!!' http://www.flickr.com/photos/80835774@N00/2487468597Image: 'African elephant' http://www.flickr.com/photos/15745225@N00/391083642

• Image: 'Baby Ellie' http://www.flickr.com/photos/15745225@N00/4403692618