Sunday, 4 December 2011

Asian Elephants


THIS IS AN OUTLINE OF TESSA’S MULTIMEDIA ENGAGING POWER POINT PRESENTATION.  TESSA DID THIS ON HER FREE TIME BY HERSELF.


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
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)
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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