Animal's Body: size, color, type of covering and special body parts.

Elephants can be 19 to 24 feet long. They stand up to 13 feet tall. They weigh 5 to 7 tons.

They have a thick brown and gray skin.

Elephants have tusks. Tusks are long teeth. They help elephants get food and carry heavy objects.

They also have a long nose called a trunk. The tip of the trunk has two finger-like projections they use to pick up small objects. The tip of the trunk also acts like lips. Elephants can also use their trunk like an arm or hand.

They have large ears. They cool off by fanning their ears.

Animal's Habitat: location in the world they live, type of habitat, and type of home

Elephants live mostly in the Sahara Desert region of Africa and parts of southern Asia.

Elephants prefer to live in forests, bushes, or grassy savannahs.

They can have homes that are 500 miles apart.

Animals Living Habits: eating, sleeping and moving.

Elephants eat leaves, grass and tree bark using their trunks to pick up food and put it into its mouth. They also use their trunk to drink as much as 40 gallons of water at one time.

Elephants spend as much as twenty hours a day eating from 100 to 1000 pounds of food. African elephants only digest about 40% of what they eat. Hmmm...

Elephants sleep standing up. Sometimes baby elephants lie down to sleep.

Elephants stomp when they walk. They can run 24 miles per hour for short distances.

Fun Facts

• Both male and female have tusks.
• The African elephant is the largest land mammal on Earth.
• At birth, the calf weighs about 250 pounds.
• Males are much bigger than females.
• The African elephant is one of the most intelligent mammals on earth.