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!!African Elephant!!

Binomial name: Loxodonta Africa Family name: Elephantidae How They Move:  Elephants move on four legs. They walk right left right or left right left. They are capable of running up to 20 mph! But they usually tend to stay at 12 to 20 mph.

How They Eat:  elephants can drink out of their long trucks, they can also use their trunks for grabbing thing, and use it to transfer food into their mouths.

What They Eat: they eat a wide variety of food, from roots, to fruit, also grasses and even bark. It is usually not too hard for them to find food because they can always just eat bark of a tree!

How long it takes them to mature into an adult:  is about ten years. They can live from anywhere from 50 to 70 years, if they are healthy.

How big do they grow: <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> elephants can grow anywhere from 20,000lb to 24,00lb. The largest elephant recorded was 24,000lb.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15pt;">Adaptation to environment: <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> They have long tusks they can defend themselves with if they were to ever be attacked by any predators. They have long trucks so that they can easily drink from low ponds, and they have very large ears that keep them cool because the environment is very hot, also to slap insects away.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15pt;">How long do baby elephants gestate for: <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> elephants have the longest gestate time out of all mammals. They can gestate up to 22 months.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15pt;">How many babies’ can an elephant have at one time <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">: they usually have 1 baby at a time, but in rear events possibly two.

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The scientific Classification of the African Elephant: <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Kingdom: Animlia <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Phylum: Chordata <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Class: mammalian <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Order: Proboscidea <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Family: Elephantidea <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Genus: loxodonta <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Species: L. Africana

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Difference between Males and Females: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Color: Both gray <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Size: 20,000 to 24,000 (both) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Horns: Both male and females have tucks. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">ECT: males are called bulls/ Females are called cows

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">FAMILY: Elephantidea <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">GENERAL CHARATERUSTICS OF FAMILY: they tend to have very thick skin, have trucks, wide ankles, and long ears. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">4 examples of animals: Asian Elephant, Forest Elephant, African bush, African elephant. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">ECT; The family Elephantidae have been around for many years. They even existed in the ice age, they were called wolly mammoths because of their thick fir, but after living in Africa where it is hot, and they adapted and lost most of their fur.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">SOURSES; 1) [|www.wikipedia] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">2) [|www.animals.nationalgeogrphics.com] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">3) <span style="color: #767676; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> school.discoveryeducation.com