2. Elephants belong to the animal group of
mammals. Elephants adapt by having long legs to
keep them safe from predators. They are used in
warm weather because they have large floppy ears
to help heat escape. Their tusks are for protection.
They use their long trunk for showering and
beating away predators.
Elephants eat
grasses, leaves, bamboo, bark, roots, bananas and
sugarcane
3. Grasslands are considered the transitional biome.
This means that they are found between deserts
and forests. Grasslands are divided into 2 main
types: tropical and temperate.
4. Elephants are endangered because they are
suffering habitat loss to make way for
farmland, climate change because of Global
Warming, and illegally poached for ivory.
What is being done to help them?
Laws have been passed that you can’t hunt them.
Laws have been also passed to ban the sale of
ivory.
5. An adult African Elephant trunk is about seven
feet long!
The African Elephant is the largest land animal.
Elephant are 5 feet to 14 feet(males)
The Asian Elephant are also endangered.
Elephants are related to the woolly mammoth.
Elephants have a life span of 70 years.
There are 2 types of elephants: African and Asian.
