Facts:
Facts:
Elephants are the only animals that have trunks and can lift objects
weighing as much as 600 pounds. Elephants have the longest pregnancy of all
the mammals (twenty-two months!) and they usually only bear a single offspring!
The African elephant can live in a wide variety of African habitats such as savanna, forest, deserts, and many others. The Asian elephant can live in about the same habitats as the African elephant.
Elephants spend most of their day eating about 400 pounds of foilage, fruit, grass, bark, and other vegetation. They also drink about fourty to fifty gallons of water a day.
The Elephant has been poached for its ivory tusks and is losing its habitat very quickly. The Asian elephants' population is scattered around india, southern Asia, and Sri Lanka.
Contribute to a wildlife fund or a save the elephants fund and don't buy illegally obtained ivory.
Elephants are the largest land animals and weigh more than six tons. They are very intelligent and can be trained to do various things. They can live about sixty to seventy years and can be eleven feet tall and five feet long. One way to tell African elephants from Asian elephants is the size of their ears: African elephants have huge floppy ears, while the Asian elephant has small ears. The Asian elephant also appears to have a more rigid trunk than the African elephant. The Elephants size and weight is also a difference: the African Elephants are larger than the Asian Elephants. Besides these differences the Asian Elephant and the African Elephant are very much alike.
