Elephants are big!!! A female elephant can weigh as much as a car. A male elephant can weigh as a truck.
Female elephants live in a group called a herd. Mothers, sisters, and daughters live in the herd. Male elephants like to live alone. They do not live in the herd with females.Elephants live for 50 to 70 years. One elephant even lived to be eighty-three!
Every elephant has a trunk. A trunk has many jobs. An elephant uses it to smell and touch. It’s also used to pick up bugs or berries. Having a trunk is like having your nose in your hand.
The trunk also helps an elephant swim. When swimming in deep water, an elephant sticks its trunk up out of the water to breathe.
Elephants' ears are large and flat. Elephants flap their ears to stay cool. Elephants get hot like us!
Elephants like to take mud baths. The mud protects their skin from the sun. Instead of putting on suntan lotion, elephants put on mud.
Most elephants have tusks. Elephants use their right or left tusk, just like people are right-handed or left-handed.
Some bad people, called poachers, kill elephants for their tusks. This is sad because elephants are now endangered. That means there are not many elephants left in the world.
When a baby elephant is born, it is almost blind. A baby uses its trunk to feel for things so that it won't bump into them. When a baby elephant is born, it weighs more than 200 pounds.
Elephants eat grass and plants. They only sleep two hours each day. They eat the rest of the day.