African Elephant

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African Elephant

• By Jake

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Physical Description

• Elephants are the largest land mammal on land and
  they have thick gray-brown wrinkled skin.
• They have tiny tails, big ears and a really long
  nose that is called a trunk.
• The baby elephant can weigh up to 250 pounds when
  it is born and the adults can weigh up to 13,000
  pounds

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Habitat

• Elephants live all over Africa except in the
  north.
• They live where it is warm on the savannas and in
  the bush and south of the Sahara desert.
• Most elephants today live in protected national
  parks and reserves so they wont be hunted.

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Food and diet

• It will eat as much plants as it wants from
  600-1)000 pounds a day.
• It will go around Africa to find food.
• They need salt and dig in the ground to find it
  they will suck on a little piece like candy.

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Predators

• The baby will stay in the middle of the pack to
  stay safe.
• People will try to kill elephants for their ivory
  tusks.
• They cant run that fast from their other
  predator the lion.

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Babies

• Females only have 1 baby a year it can weigh 200
  pounds and it is gray.
• Babies stay with their moms until they are 11
  years old if they are male.
• Girl babies stay with their moms for life.

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Special Traits/Interesting facts

• It needs about 50 gallons of water a day.
• It has 60,000 muscles in its trunk.
• An adult African elephant can eat 600 to 1,000
  pounds of food a day.