Elephant News

By Lucie

South Africa Elephants

Elephants eat trees and love to travel. They travel so many places in one day- can you believe it?

Introduction Did you know how big an elephant is? Do you know how much they eat? There are so many things you can find out in this article of elephants so read it now. Are elephants smart? Well if you want to

know, figure it out. To get the information, then I would read this article about elephants.

About an Elephant’s Body An elephant is a really big and smart animal. An elephant is two times taller than a human. The most flexible parts of their bodies are their trunks. The trunk takes practice to use. There are no bones in an elephant’s trunk. Tusks are the white horns on an elephant’s trunk. An elephant’s tusks are the largest and heaviest animal horns.

Elephants have an amazing sense of smell.

How Elephants Live

Elephants live in Africa and India. Elephants live in the South from the Sahara Desert in Africa. They live in South Africa and Asia. Elephants live in sunny and hot weather. Their shelter is plants, trees, and grass. Some elephants sleep standing up or sleep lying down.

How Elephants Eat

Elephants eat trees and plants. Elephants eat up to about 300 pounds and 135 kg of plants and trees. They have about 495 pounds of food a day. They eat 20 hours a day.

Elephants need to have and eat plenty of food. Elephants eat their food in fields, trees, and ground. They get their food by picking it up with their trunks then they put it in their mouths. If a lion comes close to a baby elephant it’s in danger. Its predator is a lion.

How Elephants Travel

Elephants travel everywhere. The female elephant leads the herd always. They migrate and don’t stay long in one place. They’re nomadic animals witch means they don’t stay long in one place. Elephants are protected from the members of their herds.

The adult elephant circles around their baby to protect it from other predators. The female starts mating when it’s 12 years old. The baby elephant eats trees just like it’s Mom and Dad elephant. A baby elephant weighs about 250 pounds when it is young. The baby elephant is about the size of a tall horse. They live up two about 70 years old. When an elephant dies the herd doesn’t leave the elephant who is dying.

More Facts about Elephant

Elephants eat trees. From today and between 400,000 and 600,000 live in Africa today. Elephant’s communicate by trumpets, roars, and grunts. They have excellent memories they can remember a lot of things at a time. They can recognize them self in mirror. Another name for elephant is cow.

Elephant’s step in swamps and in pond’s. So basically any thing that’s water they’ll probably go in.

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