African Elephants

By,Taylor

Physical Traits

Trunks

Tusks

Tough Feet

Tails

Behavior Adaptions

• Elephants usually migrate at the beginning of a dry season between june and November. When the rainy seasons arrives elephants start the long journey back to their home. Elephants migrate in herds.

Ecosystem/Habitat

• Elephants usually live where the sun is blazing hot, like Africa or Asia.

Habitat• Savanna• Grass lands

Climate

• Elephants live in dry hot areas but they still need water and mud to keep cool.

sounds

• Elephants can make very interesting sounds. click here for a video of elephant sounds.

Diet/ food chain

• Elephants eats leaves and plants which makes them a herbivore or

• Primary consumer.

Niche

Elephants are also known as an ecosystem engineer because elephants knock down trees to keep them from over welming, they also keep the grass under control.

Learned behaviors

•Elephants flap their ears to keep cool

•Elephants like to role in mud to keep themselves cool

•Elephants use their trunks to spray water on them

•Elephants can be taught to paint pictures

Inherited traits

• Elephants have trunks • Elephants are very big• Elephants have big ears• Elephants have good memories and

are very smart

• Elephants are the largest living mammal on land

• Elephants are 8-14 feet tall• Tallest point of the elephant is its

shoulders• Elephants weigh about 4-7 tons• Elephants are very good swimmers

video