ELEPHANTS

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ELEPHANTS

• By Teagan Room 35 Grade 2

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• The mother elephant has to look after her babies
  or a lion might eat it. Elephants roll in the mud
  to keep cool or they put water in their trunks
  and spray it on their backs.

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• People ride on elephants backs and heads.
  Elephants weigh 7000 pounds. Elephants have small
  eyes. When elephants are old their tusks fall off
  and the elephants grow more. During the day their
  skin gets dirty. A baby elephant drinks gallons
  of milk from its mother. Dust protects them from
  insects.

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• When elephants die people take their tusks and
  carve it. Elephants are the largest mammal on
  land. When an elephant is old it will go out on
  its own to die. Elephants use their trunks to put
  food in the babies mouth.

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• Elephants have big ears and four legs, a tail, a
  trunk and tusks. If an ant goes in an elephants
  ear it will make it frantic. Elephants are gray.
  Usually elephants have one baby at a time. Baby
  elephants weigh 208 pounds. People chain
  elephants.

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• Elephant milk is the richest milk in the world.
  Some times baby elephants get stuck in the mud.
  People train elephants to do work. You can see
  elephants at the zoo or in a circus.

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Credits

• The Elephant
• By Gallimard
• Pictures
• Slide 1 from the book The Elephant
• Slide 2 drawn by Teagan
• Slide 3 from http//www.cohsoft.com.au/nature/gall
  ery/
• Permission given by Anne Foxworthy
• Slide 4 from http//www.oaklandzoo.org/atoz/azelep
  h.html