The elephant known as the African Elephant, is the largest land animal. You’ll be amazed at what you’ll discover about the African elephant's tusks. So sit back and get ready to hear about their habitat, places they live, environment, food, habits, their intelligence, and echolocation. Most African Elephants live in Sub Saharan Africa and the rain forest of central and west Africa, also the Sabel desert in Mali. The Asian Elephant on the other hand lives in Nepal , India and Southeast Asia in scrub rain forests and rain forests. Some elephants have a dense, wet rain forest environment, or all Grasslands with just fields of grass or dry
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First, I want to start off with the African elephant because it's my favorite and the most well known kind of elephant. The African elephant weighs up to 17,600 pounds (8000 kg) and stands 11ft (3.5m) tall! Next, there is the Asian elephant. It can run up to 25 mph when they are frightened or threatened. The 3rd elephant is the African Bush elephant. This kind of elephant can live up to 60 to 70 years! Most scientist call the African bush elephant the Loxodonta Africana. The next elephant I'm going to talk about is the Borneo
elephant. This type of elephant is smaller than any species of elephants; because of their size, the list of natural predators is limited. Tigers occasionally hunt Borneo elephants for food and human hunting has increased in recent days.
The last elephant species is the Indian elephant. The indian elephant is one of three recognized subspecies of the asian elephant and native to mainland asia.
The scientific name for the indian elephant is Elephas Maximus …show more content…
These grey mammals eat mostly grasses, small plants, or bushes. Some others eat either fruit or twigs, tree bark, and roots. Elephants may spend 12 to 18 hours feeding. Adult elephants can eat between 200 to 600 pounds of food a day!
Elephants breath and smell through their long, heavy trunks. For the 3rd topic, I'm going to talk about what elephants do for habits or what they do while they're not eating! These fun lovable creatures like to play a lot and have fun with either their siblings or friends. They also like to roll in the mud to keep away bugs and also blocks the heat and UV radiation. The 4th topic is what kind of intelligence they have. Elephants are very smart because they have the largest brain of any land animal! Elephants have also demonstrated their impressive mental capabilities. With their huge floppy ears, they can hear really well too. For my last topic I’m going to talk about their echolocation /communication and how they
First, I want to start off with the African elephant because it's my favorite and the most well known kind of elephant. The African elephant weighs up to 17,600 pounds (8000 kg) and stands 11ft (3.5m) tall! Next, there is the Asian elephant. It can run up to 25 mph when they are frightened or threatened. The 3rd elephant is the African Bush elephant. This kind of elephant can live up to 60 to 70 years! Most scientist call the African bush elephant the Loxodonta Africana. The next elephant I'm going to talk about is the Borneo
elephant. This type of elephant is smaller than any species of elephants; because of their size, the list of natural predators is limited. Tigers occasionally hunt Borneo elephants for food and human hunting has increased in recent days.
The last elephant species is the Indian elephant. The indian elephant is one of three recognized subspecies of the asian elephant and native to mainland asia.
The scientific name for the indian elephant is Elephas Maximus …show more content…
These grey mammals eat mostly grasses, small plants, or bushes. Some others eat either fruit or twigs, tree bark, and roots. Elephants may spend 12 to 18 hours feeding. Adult elephants can eat between 200 to 600 pounds of food a day!
Elephants breath and smell through their long, heavy trunks. For the 3rd topic, I'm going to talk about what elephants do for habits or what they do while they're not eating! These fun lovable creatures like to play a lot and have fun with either their siblings or friends. They also like to roll in the mud to keep away bugs and also blocks the heat and UV radiation. The 4th topic is what kind of intelligence they have. Elephants are very smart because they have the largest brain of any land animal! Elephants have also demonstrated their impressive mental capabilities. With their huge floppy ears, they can hear really well too. For my last topic I’m going to talk about their echolocation /communication and how they