The African Elephant

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The African Elephant

• By Cody

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Physical Description

• The African elephants birth weight is 250 pounds
  and the adults weight is 13,000 pounds.
• The African elephant has big ears that are shaped
  like the continent of African.
• The African elephant is the biggest land mammal.

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Habitat

• They live in grassy plains.
• African elephants live in national parks and
  reserves.
• They live in the bush, forests and savannas south
  of the Sahara desert.

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Food and diet

• African elephants eat a lot of plants.
• They eat as many plants as they want.
• African elephants need salt so they go into caves
  and lick the walls to get salt.

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Predators

• African elephant haves two predators humans and
  lions.
• They protect themselves from lions with their
  tusks and feet.
• Humans hunt elephants for their tusks.

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Babies

• Did you know that African elephants weigh 250
  pounds when they are born?
• Baby African elephants are red when they are
  born.
• Baby elephants cant control their trunks.

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Interesting Facts

• The African elephant can lift a tree with its
  trunk.
• The African elephant is wanted for its tusks.
• The African elephant has 16,000 muscles in its
  trunk.