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Elephants can swim – they use their trunk to breathe like a snorkel in deep water. ... In a day, an elephant can drink 50 gallons (200 liters) of water. An elephant's trunk can hold 2.5 gallons of water. Elephants have been known to learn more than 60 commands.
As of 2002, it was estimated that 30,000 – 50,000 Asian elephants survive in the world; some experts believe that in 2017 the number is closer to 30,000.
More than 13,000 of the above number are maintained in human care in Asian elephant range countries.
There are only 10 regions in all of Asia where elephant numbers total at least 1,000 individual animals.
Although some African elephant populations are still increasing in excess of the carrying capacity of their habitat, elephants in many countries in East, Central and West Africa are subject to poaching and populations are being decimated.
Consistently throughout Asia and Africa, human elephant conflict is on the rise. As humans increase our food supply to meet the needs of our population, existing elephant habitat is turned into cropland and the elephants find themselves competing for resources with people.
Elephants have hair all over their bodies.
Elephants have eyelashes.
The African elephant is the largest living land mammal.
The elephant trunk serves as a nose, a hand, an extra foot, a signaling device and a tool for gathering food, siphoning water, dusting, digging and much more.
Elephants can live in nearly any habitat that has adequate quantities of food and water. Ideally, their habitat consists of an abundance of grass and browse depending depending on the species.
Only the male Asian elephants have tusks.
The tusks of elephants grow through their life. The tusks can weigh over 200 pounds.
Elephants don’t drink with their trunks, but use them as “tools” to drink with. This is accomplished by filling the trunk with water and then using it as a hose to pour it into the elephant’s mouth.
Elephants can swim – they use their trunk to breathe like a snorkel in deep water.
Elephants have a slow pulse of 27 and for a canary it is 1000!
The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.
The elephant’s gestation period is 22 months.
The elephant is the national animal of Thailand.
An elephant’s tooth can weight as much as three kilograms.
An elephant in the wild can eat anywhere from 100 – 1000 pounds of vegetation in a 16 hour period.
The intestines of an elephant may be 19 meters in length, or more than 60 feet long.
Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.
In a day, an elephant can drink 50 gallons (200 liters) of water.
An elephant’s trunk can hold 2.5 gallons of water
Elephants have been known to learn more than 60 commands.
Elephants can swim – they use their trunk to breathe like a snorkel in deep water. ... In a day, an elephant can drink 50 gallons (200 liters) of water. An elephant's trunk can hold 2.5 gallons of water. Elephants have been known to learn more than 60 commands.
As of 2002, it was estimated that 30,000 – 50,000 Asian elephants survive in the world; some experts believe that in 2017 the number is closer to 30,000.
More than 13,000 of the above number are maintained in human care in Asian elephant range countries.
There are only 10 regions in all of Asia where elephant numbers total at least 1,000 individual animals.
Although some African elephant populations are still increasing in excess of the carrying capacity of their habitat, elephants in many countries in East, Central and West Africa are subject to poaching and populations are being decimated.
Consistently throughout Asia and Africa, human elephant conflict is on the rise. As humans increase our food supply to meet the needs of our population, existing elephant habitat is turned into cropland and the elephants find themselves competing for resources with people.
Elephants have hair all over their bodies.
Elephants have eyelashes.
The African elephant is the largest living land mammal.
The elephant trunk serves as a nose, a hand, an extra foot, a signaling device and a tool for gathering food, siphoning water, dusting, digging and much more.
Elephants can live in nearly any habitat that has adequate quantities of food and water. Ideally, their habitat consists of an abundance of grass and browse depending depending on the species.
Only the male Asian elephants have tusks.
The tusks of elephants grow through their life. The tusks can weigh over 200 pounds.
Elephants don’t drink with their trunks, but use them as “tools” to drink with. This is accomplished by filling the trunk with water and then using it as a hose to pour it into the elephant’s mouth.
Elephants can swim – they use their trunk to breathe like a snorkel in deep water.
Elephants have a slow pulse of 27 and for a canary it is 1000!
The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.
The elephant’s gestation period is 22 months.
The elephant is the national animal of Thailand.
An elephant’s tooth can weight as much as three kilograms.
An elephant in the wild can eat anywhere from 100 – 1000 pounds of vegetation in a 16 hour period.
The intestines of an elephant may be 19 meters in length, or more than 60 feet long.
Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.
In a day, an elephant can drink 50 gallons (200 liters) of water.
An elephant’s trunk can hold 2.5 gallons of water
Elephants have been known to learn more than 60 commands.
![Cuteness in This Video : Cool Baby Elephants Learn To Swim [Elephant Calf]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p-VVxUlPtL8/mqdefault.jpg "Cuteness in This Video : Cool Baby Elephants Learn To Swim [Elephant Calf]
baby elephant is called a calf. It weighs about 250 pounds at birth and stands about three feet tall. Calves cant see very well at first, but they can recognize their mothers by touch, scent, and sound.
Baby elephants stay very close to their mothers for the first couple of months. The calves drink their mothers milk for about two years, sometimes longer. They drink up to 3 gallons of milk a day! At about four months old, they also begin eating some plants, like adult elephants, but they continue to need as much milk from their mother. They keep drinking milk for up to ten years!
At first, baby elephants dont really know what to do with their trunks. They swing them to and fro and sometimes even step on them. They will suck their trunk just as a human baby might suck its thumb.
By about 6 to 8 months, calves begin learning to use their trunks to eat and drink. By the time they are a year old, they can control their trunks pretty well and, like adult elephants, use their trunks for grasping, eating, drinking, bathing.
Female elephants stay with the herd for life, while males leave to begin a solitary life at about 12 to 14 years of age.
Elephant Babies Coloring Page: Color this picture while you review the facts youve learned.
Species of Elephants
For many years scientists thought that there were two different species of elephants: Asian elephants and African elephants. However, in 2000, they began classifying African elephants into two distinct species, the African savanna elephant and the African forest elephant.
Elephant Vocabulary Worksheet : Discover more about elephants by with this vocabulary worksheet. Look up each word in a dictionary or online. Then, write the correct word on the blank line beside each definition.
Elephant Word Search : See how well you remember what you learned about elephants. Circle each word as you find it hidden among the letters in the word search. Refer to the worksheet for any terms whose meaning you dont remember.
African savanna elephants live in the area of Africa below the Sahara desert. African forest elephants live in the rain forests of Central and West Africa. The elephants that live in the African forest have smaller bodies and tusks than those that live on the savannas.
Asian elephants live in the scrub and rain forests of Southwest Asia, India, and Nepal.
Elephant Habitat Coloring Page : Review what youve learned about elephant Habitats.
Distinguishing Between Asian and African Elephants
There are many similarities between Asian and African elephants, but there are simple ways to distinguish one from the other. African elephants have much larger ears that seem to be shaped like the continent of Africa. They need large ears to cool off their bodies on the hot continent of Africa. Asian elephants ears are smaller and more rounded.
African Elephant Coloring Page
There is also a distinct difference in the shape of Asian and African elephants heads. Asian elephants heads are smaller than an African elephants head and have a double-dome shape.
Both male and female African elephants can grow tusks, though not all do. Only male Asian elephants grow tusks.
Asian Elephant Coloring Page
The Asian elephant is smaller than the African elephant. Asian elephants live in jungle habitats. Its entirely different than the deserts of Africa. Water and vegetation are more plentiful in the jungle. So Asian elephants do not need wrinkled skin to trap moisture or large ears to fan their bodies.
Even the trunks of Asian and African elephants are different. African elephants have two finger-like growths on the tip of their trunks; Asian elephants only have one.
Elephant Family Coloring Page : Do you think you can tell African and Asian elephants apart? Are these African elephants or Asian elephants? What are the identifying features?
Elephant Diet Coloring Page : All elephants are plant eaters (herbivores). Adult elephants eat about 300 pounds of food a day. It takes a long time to find and eat 300 pounds of food. They spend 16 to 20 hours a day eating!
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