The African elephant, the largest land animal, is a herbivore that consumes a diet primarily of leaves, grasses, and fruits, using its long trunk to gather food and dig for roots. They are found in diverse habitats across sub-Saharan Africa and are classified into two subspecies: the African bush elephant and the forest elephant. These elephants play a crucial ecological role as a keystone species, but they face threats from poaching, habitat loss, and human activities.

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Animal: African Elephant
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African Elephant Report
The African elephant is a herbivore which means it only eats plants and leaves. A
herbivore is also called a plant-eater. Elephants eat roots, grasses, leaves, fruit
and tree bark. Elephants can use their very long trunks to grab their food.
Elephants spent a lot of their time eating. A Bull elephant is another name for a
male elephant they can eat about 300 to 600 pounds (130 to 260 kg) of food
every day. The African Bush elephant diet is usually leaves and branches that are
stripped off of the trees and the branches they can get these planets by using
their very long trunks. The African bush elephant will also eat fruit and grass to.
Elephants can use their trunks to dig for roots into the ground to strip up the bark
of the trees. An elephant can eat by putting the food into its mouth by use its
trunk to grab the food then it puts it into the mouth. The elephant can eat about
300 pounds (136 kilograms) of food in just one day. The African elephant can
travel in very long distances to look for food. Elephants can dig up the roots and
also it can peel barks off of the trees. An herbivore is an animal that only eats
vegetation. The forest elephant will eat the leaves and the fruit that are on top of
the tree herbs and they will also eat many other vegetation foods to like low-lying
shrubs. The front pair of the molars of the elephant’s mouth can wear down and
drop out into pieces. The back of the elephants mouth shift forward that turns
into two new molarsthat is in the back of the elephant’s mouth. The molars that
are in the back of the mouth are emerging. The African elephant teeth can be
replaced like about 6 times during elephant’s lives. But when the elephant is
about 40 or 60 years old then the elephant will start to lose all of its teeth. Then
the elephant will die from starvation. This has come a common cause in the
African wildness. The African elephant lives in the Sub-Saharan in Africa. The
other sub-species is the forest elephant they can be found in the forests of

2. Central Africa. The African elephants can be found in forests, grasslands, marshes,
Scrub, and Semi-desert places. Elephants are usually found in hot places. The
African bush elephant used to have ancestors they used to live in the Arctic Circle.
Today they can only be found in Central and in South Africa They can also be
found in on the African plains and on grasslands where they are looking for food
and water. The African forest elephant can be found on the grassy savanna plains.
They can also be found in forests to. The African elephant can be found on the
savanna grassland and in the forest. Elephants can also be seen on the African
Southern of the Sahara. The African elephant is divided into two Sub-species the
African Bush Elephant and the African Forest elephant. African elephants are
usually found where there is a place that is filled with of food and water. They can
also be found on dry woodland that is in some regions of Africa. They can also be
seen in desert places to. They can be seen up in the mountains that are in the
Congo and in equatorial countries of Africa. The African elephant are also found in
the rainforest of Central Africa from Zaire to the west of Mauritania. The
Elephants that live on the Savanna or widespread in drier woodlands and in
savannas. The most common places to find an African elephant can be found in
many different parts of Africa like inKenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe,
Namibia, and in South Africa. The three of the other species both live in both
habitats the Savanna and in the forest that is in West Africa. The African elephant
can weigh about 6 tons (5,443 kilometers). They can stand about 12 feet (4
meters) at the shoulder. The height of an African elephant isabout 8, 2 to 13ft
(2.5 to 4m ) to the shoulder. The African elephant is the largest land animal on the
planet. They can weigh about between 5,000 to 14,000 lbs. (2,268 - 6,350kg).
Their usual size is 6ft (2-m) then a adult man is. The African elephant's average
size is up about 10 feet to (3m) tall to the shoulder. Their weigh is also 6 tons
(5,400kg). Males are much bigger than Females are. The weights of their very big
ears are 5 feet to 1,5m long. The male elephants that live on the Savanna can
grow about 25 feet long. They can stand about 11 feet tall and their weight is
14,000 pounds. Their other size is 3-4m (10-13ft) to the shoulder their weigh is
about 32,000 - 6400kg (7000-14000 lbs.,) A male elephant's height is 3,3m at the
shoulder. Their weight is 6000kg that is like 10 small cars being pulled together.
Females can weight up about 4000kg. They can grow about 4m tall. That is like

3. the height of a double decker bus. The male bush elephant can reach about 3.5
meters that is their height. The females can reach about 3 meters tall. The bush
elephant’s body can grow about between 6 or 7 meters long. The elephant’s tusks
can grow about 2.5 meters in a length. Their rather weigh is between 50 or 100
pounds that is much smaller thananaverage adult human. The African bush
elephant have 4 molar teeth inside of their mouth. Teeth they all weigh about
5.0kg and they measure about 12 inches long. A male forest elephant thatcan
reach 3 meters in a height. The female can reach 2.5 metersthe forest elephant
tusks can grow about 1, 5 meters long. Their rather weigh is between 50 and 100
pounds the forest elephants 4 teeth molar can weigh 5,0 kg and they can measure
about 12 inches long. The African elephant can live about 17 years. The African
elephant can live 60 years in the wild and they can live about 80 years when they
are in captivity. The average life span for an African Savanna elephant is 60 years
in the wild. They can also live about 70 years in the wild to. How the elephant life
span also depends on the animals teeth that are on the molars of their mouth.
When the elephant is about 40 to 60 years then it will die from starvation. The
elephant’stooth gets replaced by six times. The elephant’s trunk has 40 and
100,000 muscles in it. The elephants use its trunk to breathe and also to grab
things. The trunk is also the elephant’s upper lip. The trunk is even strong enough
to knot down a whole tree down. A elephants speed can charge up to 40km in
1hr. (25mph). The elephant’sears are shaped just like the continent of Africa. The
elephants ears are not just made for hearing the elephant ears are also fans that
can help keep the elephant to cool themselves down from the African heat. The
elephant’s trunk is also helpful for taking a bath. The elephant’s trunk is also a
snorkel. On the end of the elephants trunk which is called a finger the African
elephant has two fingers but its cousin the Asian elephant only has one finger the
fingers are helpful for picking are grapping things. Elephants have very strong
bonds with the members that are in their family. A male elephant is called a bull
and the female elephant is called a cow. Elephants are totally amazing
swimmers. Females travel in herds along with their Youngers males will usually
travel by themselves. Elephant’s tusks are very helpful for getting food. The
elephant gets food by digging up the roots and picking the bark off of the trees.
Elephants are very good at greeting each other when they greet someone they

4. will sometimes hug each other by wrapping their trunks around each other. This is
also how they get each other’s affection to. When the elephant feels that it is
being threaten then the elephant will use its trunk to make loud trumpeting
noises as a warning meaning to stay away. When elephant goes under deep water
then they can use their trunk as a snorkel. Elephants can drink 2 gallons (7.5 liters)
of water at a time. Then the elephant will stick the tip of water into the its
mouth, and then it will start to brow out of the water right down to the
elephant’s throat. An elephant’s trunk can be around seventy feet (two meters)
long. The reason why they do not have any natural predators is because of their
size. But calves have predators and they are lions, crocodiles and other carnivores
that can be found in Africa. Their close relatives are dugongs, manatees, hyraxes,
and aardvarks. The elephant’s trunk has no bones in it so that they can use this to
so that they be able to pick up blade of grass. When they blade of grass they can
suck 3 gallons of water so that the elephants can use the water to spray water
over all themselves to keep themselves cool. Elephants spray on themselves to
keep them cool when they get hot. Elephants have a lot of tools to keep
themselves cool from the African heat. In an Elephant herd there areabout ten
females and their youngers. All Females in the herd are related to the matriarch.
The Matriarch is the larger of the herd the job of the matriarch is to find the best
places to find food and water. The Matriarch elephant is the oldest and the
biggest female in the herd. Males only join in the herd when they reach maturity
are when they are ready to mate but usually Males usually live alone. African
Elephants are capable with each other by making a whole variety of vocal sounds
which are grunts, purrs, bellows, whistles and the obvious trumpeting. Elephants
can also get capable by making low frequency sounds that are below to human
hearing this allows wandering individuals that could be somewhere in the herd
this is also used to warn other seven different herds to stay away that can be seen
in other miles away. Then with all the animals in the animal kingdom elephants
have the longest pregnancythanany other animal. It can be pregnant about 22
months. A baby elephant is called a calf. Bush elephants will have babies when
the female elephant feels that she is ready. The female will make her mind
anytime during the year. When the female is ready to mate then she will start to
emittinginfrasound that can be attractto a male that maybe kilometers away. The

5. adult male will start to arrive to the herd during these following days then they
start to fight head-to-head that is between them that will cause many injuries and
they can even cause broken tusks to. The Gestation period for an African elephant
is last then 22 mouths. The mother usually has one calf. The African savanna
elephant female usually breeds when she is ten or she can give birth to one calf in
every four years. The African elephant gestation period is due to 22 or 24 months.
The female elephant will show off her acceptance of the victor by rubbing her
body against the male. Then they will mate and they will go on their own. After
the gestation period is over then the female will start to give birth to only one
single calf. They can weight about 90cm they can also weigh about 100kg. The calf
will fed on the mother’s milk until it is 5 years old, but it will eat solid food when
they are 6 months old. Just in a few days after the calf is born. A new born
elephant can weigh about 170 and 250 pounds it can also stand about three times
high from the ground to the shoulder. In the first three weeks the calf will start to
fed on its mothers milk. Then after 3 weeks it will start to eat grass and other
different types of plants. A adult female elephant will start to have babies when
she is about 17 years old. The female will have about six or seven calves during
their whole life. Females stop mating when they are 50 years old. It is a very
special day for the herd when there is a new baby in the herd they will crowd
around the mother to tough the baby. The elephants will get very excited and will
start to make lots of noises. Female elephants will reach maturity when they are
10 or 11 years old and the males are 10 to 20 years old. A Female bush elephants
are ready to reproduce after they are 10 or 11 years old but most fertile are
between 25 or 45 years. Males will not be able to reproduce until they are in their
20's. Males and females will mate about 2 years. A female will give birth to one
calf having twins are extremely rare. The calf will drink its mother’s milk for 2
years but it will still have the protection from the herd until the calf is old enough
to take care of itself which will be when they are about 6 years old. When it is in
6 years has pasted then the tusks should be starting to grow on the elephant. The
female forest elephant will not start to mate until it is about 10 or 11 years old.
The forest male elephants will not mate until they are in their 20ths. The
gestation period will be about 2 years. The African forest elephantcalves will start
to drink its mother’s milk in about 2 years. It will stay in the herd when it is ready

6. to take care of its self. When the calf is ready to go on its own then that will be
the time when the tusks will start to grow. Male elephants use their tusks to
battle each other. The African elephant is so very important for a very special
system called the eco-system in which the animal lives in. The African elephants
plans a very big role in nature they are known as the keystone species which is on
another numerous of species rely. Some plants need to be eaten by an elephant
before the seeds will even start to grow which are includes in the third tree
species that are in the elephant’s habitat. The elephant’s big size ears and the
taste of the roots lead to pathways that make the forest more clear. This will
allow the sunlight to otherwise dense and dark forest which gives the opportunity
for a big variety of flora which will grow and turn in a variety of fauna. These
pathways work at nature’s firebreak. Some that used to be the ones that were
ancient that are so well established those have been turned into roads. Unlike the
Asian elephant these elephants are not easy to domesticated they are about
470,000 -690,000 of these types of elephants. The African elephant was
domesticated in 1.3 million years ago in the 1970's. Many African elephants have
been killed by poachers for their beautiful tusks so that they make ivory this
started to happen in the 1980's that is between 1979 and the 1989 that is due in
their population. People sale the ivory in markets in Africa and in Asia. The
numbers of elephants are about to be destroyed because they are also losing
their habitats to. Elephants are in trouble because of poaching and habitat loss is
threatening the African elephants throughout the elephants range. Elephants
have lost much of their habitat to ranches, farmers, and desertification. The
African forestelephant is in safe numbers for right now. The savanna subspecies
are very much in trouble because of logging and they are also selling their ivory
tusks in markets. People in markets are hunting the elephant for meat. The
African elephant is mostly found in many reserves and in parks to. There are
about 1,300,000 animals and now there is about 750,000 that is in the elephant’s
population. People that live in India travel on elephants they carry their crops to
go to place to place. People use to use elephants in war to. An elephant can run
24 miles per hour. A elephants head can be account to 12 up to 24 percent of
their body weight. The elephant’s tusks can grow more than 11 1/2 feet long this
has been recorded a long time ago. A highest weight of elephant tusks are 440

7. pounds. When a male elephant changes then they will start to show that it is an
friendly, gentle creature from being violent and being dangerous. Zoo keeper’s
injuries are mostly from elephant attacks. Elephants will only take a bath in 3 or 4
times in aday. These animals love the water they will use their trunks to take a
bath by spraying water over themselves when the weather is too hot for them.
Elephant use to be the best way to travel. In Thousands of years ago elephants
had helped people from over the years they have helped people with building
cities, even people used to fight in wars with elephants, they used to have fights
in battles and also to have fun. Right before trains and other automobileswere
made elephants were the best and the most powerful force that can push and
haul things. In Asia the Asian elephant has a very long history of being trained for
labor even today people are still using elephants to get around. Before there were
cars or trains people used to ride on elephants to go to place to place and it was
also the best to carry crops around to. In Asia people are still traveling by
elephant to get to the place where they need to go. Elephants eat about 125
pounds of hay and ten pounds of herbivore pettiest. They also eat about ten
pounds of fruit and vegetables and they will also eat a few leafy branches to. This
is the type of food that an elephant gets when they are living in a zoo. The
elephant’s tusks are also teeth that can grow very big. Anelephant’s trunk can
hold a small flower to a very big log. When elephants spray water on themselves
this helpsthem tokeep their skin from drying out. When one of the females has a
baby then all of the elephants in the herd will became aunties even to calves that
they are not on their own. Baby elephants need a lot of protection and affection
from the herd. Elephants can commutate in lots of different ways. They can use
body language to send out messages by standing, moving and holding each
other’s trunks. They can also commutate by the position of their ears, trunks, and
tails. Elephants can also scream, bellow, rumble, trumpet, and grunt. Baby calves
will shake their heads and flap its ears and trumpets this means that the baby
calve wants to play. But when the adults seldom trumpet they will usually use this
sound when they start to get violent. An Elephant can communicate by moving
and then they will start to make a rumbling sound that kind a sounds like a
stomach growling. The rumbling sound is a growl that actually occurs in the throat
this keeps the herd in contact with each other. They can even use this sound is

8. when it is really hard to see one of the members that can be seen in a really tall
thick brush. A rumbling sound can be heard over one-half mile away. The woolly
mammoth is the closets relative of the elephants andis what we know today. A
person can normally find an elephant in a zoo or in a circus. Elephants have been
paraded and displayed for the last 2,000 years. There are lots of reasons that the
great African elephant is endangered today. The main reasonwhy that the
elephant is endangered because people are in competition for space that the
elephants need to live and to eat. Elephants are losing a lot of space because
people are building farms and houses over elephant’s habitat. Elephants are
mostly found in national parks and reserves right now. Elephants have a very
serious and steady numbers in the 1970's. The elephants that are in Africa's
reserve parks. Hunters pay a lot of money for killing an elephant. This is
casingelephant’s numbers to drop low very fast. If people don’t stop killing
elephants they will be gone forever which means there will be no elephants on
this planet that is sad. Elephants are also in trouble because of the human
population keeps on growing and it is also getting bigger on every single place in
the world. If Kenya had put a stand of international trade for ivory that have gone
banned for $3,000,000 worth of confiscate ivory that has gone banned in Kenya.
There are only 50 elephants that have been killed by poachers in Kenya but there
were 3,000 of them in the past. If this continues then the elephants will start to
eat crops and that will start to kill anddestroypeople’s lives and their homes to.
The gestation period will take about 22 mouths. The mother will give birth in
every 2 or 4 years. A baby elephant calf has to stand half an hour after the it has
been born. Female elephants are some of the few mammals other than humans
that had a further input of those years of reproducing. A typical cow will stop
having babies when the she is about 45 or 50 years old. During this post-
reproducing time the mother will assists and take care of her younger. In the
1970's scientists were beginning to have very good deal about elephants. The
elephant population is now 170,000 to 25,000 that arelifted in the African
elephant population. In November 2004 elephants had been stamped onto
villages, they also have been flattingpeople’s homes they even have eaten farm
crops and they have trampled people to death. The reason the reason why they
are doing this is because their habitat is getting smaller and it is starting to shrink

9. this is giving elephant’s rampages. That is between 1996 and 2000 there is more
than 113,000 acres of forest areas that are getting cleared up by loggers and
subsistence farmers. Today the human population is starting to grow very fast.
Elephants are starting to lose the battle for their space so that they can liveand so
that they can find a really good place to look for food. It looks like that these giant
creatives are about to head to extinction. But if we can find a way to rebuild their
habitats and if we all work together we can be able to save the great African
elephant and its small cousin the Asian elephant from being gone forever. We
must do something to help these amazing animals. These animals need all the
help that they can get. The African elephant have the right to continue living on
this planet. They are doing their part in nature and we should find a place in
nature to. This is a really big planet that is filled with wonders and discoveries that
is just waiting to be found. We have to make this planet safe for us and the other
creatures that we share it with. This is our beautiful home it deserves to have
second chance to live on for the next generation on this planet. There is a really
big, bright and beautiful future if we find a way to project our planet. This is our
world and our home will be a happy and clean place to live on. That is what will
happen if we try to protect this beautiful planet that we all share. We have to
make room for other living creatures to. God made animals for a reason just like
he made us. That is what I know about the great African elephant and the other
animals that lives on this planet to. Together we can make a difference in our
beautiful planet that we all share.