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Asian Elephants
By:
Tessa Small
Elephants in General
Elephants are mammals
They are land animals, but they love swimming and are
extrmley good swimmers.
A male is called a Bull and a female is called a cow
A baby is called a Calf
Sometimes they are used as labor so there are not many left
in wild
Typically live for 50-70 years
Habitat
Asian elephants inhabit grasslands,tropical evergreen forest, semi-evergreen forest, moist deciduous
forest, dry deciduous forested and dry thorn forest, in addition to cultivated
and secondary forests and scrublands.
Over this range of habitat types elephants are seen
from sea level to over 3,000 m (9,800 ft). In the Eastern Himalaya
in northeast India, they regularly move up above 3,000 m (9,800 ft)
in summer at a few sites.[12]
Scale
Male elephants can weigh up to 12,000 pounds (5,443 kg)
Female elephants can weigh up to 8,000 pounds (3,628 kg)
Female typically 8 feet (2.5m) tall at the shoulder.
Male typically
9 feet (2.7m) tall
Life Cycle
Diet
Elephant eats grass, tree leaves, flowers, wild fruits,
twigs, shrubs, bamboo, and bananas. Their main food is grass when it's
available, along with some leaves. They eat 300-600 pounds (136-272 kg) a
day!!!
Body Parts
Trunk (nose):
it is used to breath, get water, and get food to mouth. They
breath through two nostrils at the end of the trunk. They get water by suking
water into trunk, then cruls tord the mouth and sqruts into mouth.
Ears:
the eras, not
only here well, but also helps loss exase heat, as hot blood flowes near
serfus.
Eyes:
Elephants have
vary bad eyesight!!
interaction
With Echother
Strong social bonds with echother
Lives in famiy groups usaly lead by cows, but sometimes lead
by bulls
With Humans
Known to destro villegs, and crops so villegers , aren’t a
big fan of them.
Tourist tend to like to see working bulls in action.
Mating
Mating elephants put out sents to etrak other elephants.
Female are
usaly ready to mate when they are about 14 years old, but uasly do mate at age
25.
Males are uasly mate bwetween 35-50 years old doe to
commpation for the right to mate.
Calf
(Baby Elephant)
(Baby Elephant)
A female elephant gives birth to, usally, one calf at a time. Then 2-4 years
later she will give birth to one (or two) more.
A calf spends the first 3-4 years of his/her life drinking
its mothers milk.
Calf’s are blind at first so they rely on their mother and
trunk to help them.
It tacks 22 months to go through the proces of having a baby
for a female Elephant, wicth is longer than any other animal in the world.
Did You Know…
Elephants are one of the largest mamles in the world!!
The oldest
elephant alive lived to be 82!
The word elephant means ivory in German!!!!!
They are exstremaly intelagent anemales!!!
Thank you for your attention!!!!!
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