Elephants search for food and live in families. They can communicate with each other from over 4 kilometers away and eat 300 pounds of plants per day. Elephants enjoy mud baths, which protect their skin from the sun and insects. Mothers use their trunks to care for their babies.

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2. Elephants
• Elephants search for food.

3. Elephants
• Elephants live in a family.

4. Elephants
• Elephants can hear each other at a distance
of 21/2 miles [4 kilometers] or more.

5. Elephants
• They eat 300 pounds of plants a day. They
bathe in lakes and rivers and they love to
roll around in muddy water. The dirt helps.
After a mud bath an elephant may cover
itself with dirt. It protects the animal’s skin
from the sun and insects.

6. Elephants
• A mother elephant uses
her trunk to stroke her
baby.