Elephants are the largest land animals, weighing up to 16,500 pounds. They live in forests, bushes, grasslands, and warm climates like the Sahara desert. Elephants use their trunks to eat, drink up to 53 gallons of water per day, and spray enemies. They are herbivores that use their tusks and six sets of molars to consume trees, grass, bushes, and leaves.

1. Elephant By Carolina Riley

2. Physical Features/Description Elephants weigh 16,500 They have wrinkled skin There trunk helps them to eat It is the biggest land animal Has big floppy ears They use their tusks to scrape bark from tree’s Has six sets of molar’s for grinding up food It’s trunk is made up of 100,000 muscles and no bones Can grow up to 20 to 25 feet tall feet tall

3. Habitat Lives in forests, bushes, and grassy places For shade calf’s go under their mother’s stumach Enimies are lion’s, tiger’s and hyenas lives in warm climet Lives in the Sahara desert Lives in many different places like Savannahs, rain forests and mountins

4. Diet/Behavior A half in hour after the calf is born it can walk If enemies are there they suck up water and spry them They eat trees grass bushes and leaves Mothers can drink up to 53 gallons of water a day There vegetarians so they only eat grass and plants They need lots of room to walk around

5. Interesting Facts Elephants spend sixteen hours a day looking for food The trunk is six feet long 8.1 meters

6. Photo Credits Image: ' Play Time ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/20878641@N00/272080926 Image: ' And When I Grow Up !!! ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/80835774@N00/2487468597 Image: ' African elephant ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/15745225@N00/391083642 Image: ' Baby Ellie ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/15745225@N00/4403692618