Africa's Endangered Animals
The African Elephant
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Description
- Classification: mammal
- Skin covers the body
- Weighs 6 tons or about 5000 kilograms
- Height is 10.5 feet
- Unusual characteristics is can walk 500 km and run 40 miles per hour
(A.I.)
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Food
- They eat grass, leaves, twigs, flowers, trees and variety of fruits from trees
- Food comes from grassland and fields of grass or trees
- Herbivore
- Not a predator
- A prey for humans and often lions
(AF Point)
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Habitat
- Located near Africa
- Are important for ecosystem for Forests and other animals
- Tropical weather with sunlight
- Roam around in fields near lakes
- Achieve food from trunks and trees
(Ezine)
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Adaption
- Trunks are used for breathing, trumpeting, drinking, grabbing items, and communication
- Tusks are used to strip down bark from tress and dig food
- Tusks weigh 20-40kg
- The ears raise to keep cool from heat
- Can walk up to 500 km and 25 mph in running short distances
- They walk 5 miles per hour
- Live in a wide range: Savannas, Grasslands, Forests, and Semi-deserts
- Powerful because they are heavy and huge
- Hunt in packs
(AF Point)
Video
Deadly African Elephant The world's largest land animal
Endangerment and Conversation Efforts
- Wide range, dense forest, savanna, grassland, marshes, thornbush, semi-desert, and avid desert is habitat
- Family includes 10 individuals
- Congregate to others when older
- Around 14 or 15 years of age may have a calf
- Savanna and Forests are environment
(AF Ele.)
- Tusks for bark and food
- Use tusks to defense from predators
- Vulnerable and almost extinct
- Luckily people have stopped hunting for their tusks
(AF Point)