Elephants
By: Angel
Diet
Elephants are herbivores which are animals that eat plants.
All Elephants eat twigs, bark, leaves and fruit. Elephants drink up to 30 gallons of water everyday. African Elephants can eat up to 200 - 600 pounds a day. Sixteen to eighteen hours of an elephants day is mostly spent eating.
Family
There are two different types of Elephants which are African Elephants and Asian Elephants. Male Elephants are called bulls. When the male elephants grow older they go their separate ways and do things by themselves. A group of elephants is called a herd, which consists of mother elephants and their babies. The older and largest mother is called a Matriarch which is the leader of the group.
Endangerment
Introduction
Conclusion
One hundred Elephants are killed per day, and there is up to one hundred Elephants that are being slaughtered at least once a day. The Indian Elephants population is at the tip of a cliff for extinction.
In my opinion I think poaching should stop immediately. People need to think about this before killing these harmless animals. We need to admire these beautiful and wonderful animals. They do no harm to us so why kill them? The elephant population is under threat. In time we will have no elephants to admire and view if this poaching does not stop.
Elephants are the world’s largest mammals. They are animals which have fur and live on land. Indian and African Elephants don’t have a lot in common. African Elephants live in the continent of Africa and Indian Elephants also known as Asian Elephants live in the continent of Asia. African Elephants are much bigger than Asian Elephants. Baby Elephants are called calves and like all mammals they drink off their mothers milk.
Special features
Elephants are the worlds biggest land animals on earth. Elephants grow their tusks for their entire life. They use their tusks to dig and to fight with. Elephants use their ears to cool off. During the dry season, they use their tusks to dig for water.
Image by Tom Mooring