ELEPHANTS

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ELEPHANTS

• By
• Gisselle Freeman

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What do they look like?
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How big do they get?

• African
• Height 13 feet (2 men)
• Weight 16,500 pounds (4 large cars)
• Babies weigh 265 pounds (6 Gisselles)
• Asian / Indian
• A little smaller

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What do they eat?

• They are vegetarians (they dont eat meat)
• They eat
• Grass
• Shrubs (bushes)
• Tree leaves, roots, bark, and branches
• Fruit
• Water plants
• They also like to eat bamboo, berries, coconuts,
  corn, dates, plums, sugar cane, and PEANUTS

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How much do they eat and drink?

• They eat up to 650 pounds a day (3000
  hamburgers)
• They drink about 200 liters of water a day
  (100 bottles of soda)

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Do they work?

• Yes
• Asian Elephants are intelligent (smart)
• They are used by Asian people to knock down trees
  and carry them out of the jungle

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Are they an endangered species?

• Yes
• There are only about 600,000 African and 40,000
  Asian Elephants
• People kill elephants so they can use their tusks
  (2 long front teeth made of ivory) to make
• Jewelry
• Piano keys
• Weapons
• 1979 to 1989 about 700,000 elephants were killed
  (over half of the population)

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What can we do to help them survive?

• Dont buy things made out of IVORY