African Elephants

Appearance

Length: 19-24 feet

Tall: 10-11.5 feet tall
Colour: gray
Covering:
Special Features:
Weight: 2,268-6,350kg (6 tons)
Distinct feature: Peculiar shaped ridges found on their molar teeth and are
coarser/ less than an Asian elephants.

Anatomy

Heart: weighs 22 kilograms and circulates 450 litres of blood

Trunk: Weighs 113 kilograms.
Tongue: weighs 12 kilograms
Intestines: 18 metre long
Gas: An elephant release 200 litres of methane gas per year.
Skin: weighs 450-750 kilograms
Tail: weighs 11 kilometres.
Sound: communication between elephants is spoken at a Infra Sound Level

Habitat

Type:

Predators
Behaviour
s

Tropical and sub-tropical.

Moist broadleaf forests.
Flooded grasslands
Savannahs

Hot or Cold: warm summers and cool winters

Wet or dry: wet summers and dry winters
Power:
Threats: Calves are vulnerable to humans, lions, wild dogs, crocodiled and hyenas.
Dominant or shy:
Protection:
Use their trunks to make loud noises to scare of predators.
They also use their trunks and tusks to defend themselves
Solitary or pack: Pack
Care for young: When the calf is born, all of the aunts, sisters and cousins all help
care for the newborn. This is because elephants only give birth every 5 years and it
is critical for their survival.

Diet

Cause for
Loss of
numbers

Average Litter: 1 calf

Type: herbivore
Foods: leaves, branches, grasses, fruit and bark.
Favourite Food:
Food Intake per day: 224 kilograms

Endangered:
Loss of habitat:

Agricultural building
Human settlements

Human development
logging
Mining

Extras

1.

Poaching
Fragmentation
Poverty
Armed conflict
Displacement of people
Vulnerability

An estimated 100 African elephants are killed each day by poachers seeking
ivory, meat and body parts, leaving only 400,000 remaining
Action
Extras

Sources

Life Span: 70 years

Population:
Speed: It can walk rather fast and charge even faster.
Fitness: Walks up to 40km per hour, but cannot jump.
Conservation: Threatened
Kingdom: Animalia
Type: Mammal
Scientific name: Loxodonta Africana
Water intake per day: 114-189 litres
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