The elephant a mammal because it drinks its mothers milk, breathes air, is warm blooded, has hair and can communicate with other elephants.
The elephant has grey hairy skin. It can grow from 2.5 to 4 meters tall and weigh up to[2,268 to 6,350 kilograms. An elephant has four legs, one head, two tusks and a trunk. The tusks are useful because elephants can use them attack to their predators, or to get food.
Elephants are known as herbivores because they only eat plants.The elephant's diet is grasses, leaves, bamboo and roots. It's also known to eat crops like bananas and sugarcane. An adult elephant can eat an enormous amount of food a day (eats around 150kg). African elephants have a long trunk that lets it reach high trees to get food. Another adaptation is it uses it’s tusks to dig dirt and get roots to eat. Elephant's predators are lions, jaguars and leopards but this only if they’re unlucky. Carnivores especially target the smaller baby calves.
The habitat of elephants include tropical islands and parts of Africa, Asia and India.There are three types of elephant: the Samatran elephant, Asian elephant and Indian elephant.
Elephants can live up to 60 years in the wild. Females are called cows and male elephants are called bulls. A baby is called a calf. The female elephant gives birth at 22 months old. A female elephant doesn’t have tusks but bulls do. It takes 10 years before they make another baby.
The Asian elephant is endangered because they are getting hunted by humans. Humans only hunt the bull [male] because they have tusks and females don’t have tusks. In the wild they don’t get much food. I believe that elephants should be kept in the zoo because they can do breeding programmes to make more babies.The number of elephants would increase. If an elephant was kept in captivity the zookeepers would need to make a big cage and give it toys like toys to play with, food and water and other elephants for company. The elephant needs to be like a wild elephant.
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