Elephants are the largest, most powerful, most gentle and the heaviest mammals
on the land. Elephants can easily be found throughout in Africa, south of the
Sahara and Asia.
Elephants have the largest teeth, tusks, and ears which
are protected by eyelashes. Their skin is thick and strong and consists of wrinkles
which help them to keep them cool. Elephants have trunk that is used for breathing,
smelling, for picking up food, drinking, and even for giving itself a bath, the
elephant can fill its trunk with water and then spray it back on itself.
The male African elephant can reach a height of 10 feet tall, and can weight up
to 6 tons. The female elephant is a bit smaller and can weigh up to 4 tons. Elephants
will roll in the mud to keep flies from biting them and to cool themselves down.
Elephants are herbivores, and eat grass, foliage, fruit, branches, and twigs.
Elephants can eat up to 500 pounds of vegetation in a single day and drink as
much as 40 gallons of water at one time. They suck water up their trunk, then
holding the end closed, bring their trunk to their mouth to squirt the water inside.
Elephants permanently do not have home. i.e. they do not stay at one place they
migrate from one place to another for food and water sources. An elephant can
live his life up to a maximum span of 60-70 years depending upon the health. By
looking at their tusks one can make out which elephant is older. Elephants have
excellent skills of swimming and that to in deep water. Elephants can communicate
themselves in many ways. The amount of elephants is decreasing rapidly.
Humans catch elephants so that they can take away the tusks and use them in deforestation.
Elephants make trumpet noise when they are excited, surprised, angry or lost.
