Elephants are very large, heavy animals that live in herds. They have long trunks and ears and come in shades of brown to gray. Elephants live in Africa and Asia and eat grasses, leaves, bamboo, and roots. They are intelligent animals with good memories that can last for many years.
2. Description
• Elephant are very large and
heavy. they are broun to dark
grey in color which keeps cool.
They have a long trunk and long
ears.
3. Habitat
• They live in africa and asia
Food
They eat grasses leaves bamboo and root
4. behavior
• Elephants live in groups
called herds. They are
extremely intelligent
animals and they have
memorus that continue for
many year
5.
6. • Scientific name: Loxodonta africana
Class: Mammals
Identification: The African elephant is distinguished by its
front Asian less bulky, larger ears, his back straight, his
trunk finished in two finger-like appendages and hind
feet with only three claws
7. Weight: 2.4 to 3.5 tonnes (females and 4 to 6.3
tonnes (males), weight record, 9 tons.
Size: head-body length, 3.5 to 6 m height at the withers, 2.5-
4 m.
Habitat: Very varied: rainforests and other
forests, savannas, wetlands, thorny shrubs and
even deserts.
Food: Vegetarian non-ruminant, feeding on grasses,
fibrous roots, stems, leaves, bark, fruit.
Reproduction: Usually one offspring per litter after about
twenty months of gestation.
ears measuring up to 2 m high and 1.5 wide
8.
9. The elephant (Elephas Maximus) has much
smaller ears than African head and domed forehead, the
back convex and a digitiform appendix zolo in the tube.
its height at the withers not exceeding
3 meters, the average weight of females is of
2,720kg and that of large males than 5,400 kg.
The Asian elephant habitat once occupied more varied, from
the jungles to the thickest thorn forests and foothills of the
Himalayas. Today, however, is just outside the border areas
between forest and arable land, which creates numerous
conflicts with humans.
While in captivity, there have been
cases that can live for 70-80 years