African Elephant

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African Elephant

• By Tyler

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Babies

• Elephants have one calf at a time.
• Babies can weigh abut 200 pounds and they are red
  then gray.
• Male babies stay with mom for eleven years and
  then they go off in a bachelor herd while females
  stay with their mother all their lives.

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Physical Description

• The African elephant is the heaviest land mammal
  in the world and it has wrinkly, gray skin.
• They have the biggest ears around ,a tail ,a
  trunk and tusks.
• The African elephant can be from 10 to13 feet
  tall at the shoulders and it can weigh from
  8,000 to 15,000 pounds.

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Habitat

• Elephants live in Africa south of the Sahara
  desert.
• They can live in forests along lake shores, in
  marshy areas and on savannas.
• In the dry seasons when there isnt a lot of food
  or water elephants have to look harder for food
  in new areas.

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Food and Diet

• It eats plants and trees.
• Elephants are herbivores .They do not eat meat .
• An elephant uses its trunk to eat and drink.

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Predators

• Lions and people are the main predators of the
  African elephants.
• The elephants uses its trunk and its tusks to
  protect itself.
• African elephants are endangered, because people
  hunt them for their ivory tusks.

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Interesting facts

• An elephant has 60,000 muscles in its trunk!
• Its sad to say the African elephant is
  endangered.
• It can break down trees and give itself a bath
  with its trunk.