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Elephants by Amber Ferreira

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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Elephants

By: Amber Ferreira
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Two Main Types

  • There are two main types of elephants
  • -The African Elephant 
  • -The Asian Elephant
  • Sometimes the African Elephant is split up
  • - The African Bush and the Forest African Elephant
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Elephant facts

  • Elephants are the largest land Mammals
  • Elephants are herbivores 
  • Female elephants are called cows
  • Have no natural predators
  • -Lions & tigers may go after injured, weak or elephant calves
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Tusks

Almost all elephants have tusks
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Elephant's tusks

  • All African Elephants have tusks
  • Only female Asian Elephants do not
  • Elephant's tusks are made from ivory
  • Many elephants are killed for their tusks
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Use of their tusks

  • Digging for ground water
  • Used to lift heavy objects
  • Defense
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Fun fact:

Many elephants prefer one tusk over the other, like humans and their hands
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Elephant trunks

An elephant's trunk has over 40,000 muscles in it
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Elephant trunks

  • An elephant will wave it's trunk in the air to help them breathe better
  • They use their trunk to lift up food and water into their mouths
  • An elephant's trunk can sense the shape, size, and temp. of the object it 
  • -will be picking up
  • An elephant's trunk can grow up to 2 meter long and weigh 140 kg!
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Fun fact:

An elephant's eye sight is poor, but their sense of smell is very strong!
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Herds

Many elephants that travel in herds are young
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Elephant herds

  • Females like to travel in herds
  • Male elephants leave their herds at age 13
  • While in their herds, elephants reproduce
  • A female elephant can start to have calves at age 12
  • -Can be pregnant up to 22 months
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Communication

  • Elephants communicate by purring like a cat
  • They can also make loud noises with their trunks
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Elephants listen to other elephant's purrs through the vibrations in the ground that come from other elephants.

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Soft padding

  • Elephant's feet have a soft padding
  • This makes their walking silent
  • Helps them from slipping
  • Helps hold up their weight
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Baby elephants

At birth, an elephant calf can weigh 230 pounds!
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An Elephant can live up to be 70 years old on average.

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Some people believe elephants are too big to swim, but they can swim! They swim under water.

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However, elephants are the only mammals that can not jump.

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FUN FACTS

about elephants!
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On average, an elephant’s brain is 3-4 times larger than a human’s brain.

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Elephants have skin that’s an inch thick.

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Just one of an elephant's molars can weigh up to five pounds!

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An adult elephant must drink around 210 liters of water a day.

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On average, and elephants heart weighs about 27-46 pounds!

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Elephants can cry, laugh, play, and even have memories.

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The largest elephant in the world was an adult male African elephant and he weighed about 24,000lbs and was 13 feet tall at the shoulder.

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The blood in elephant’s ears controls the temperature of their body. On hot days the blood in their ears can cool them down.

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