By Aine Morahan Lauren Dalton Molly Gray

Elephants Baby elephants are called calves. Female elephants are called cows. Male elephants are called bulls. The families are called herds.

Where Elephants Live Elephants live in Africa and Asia. African Elephants have large ears and live in the Savanna. Asian Elephants have small ears and live in the forest. African Elephant Asian Elephant L

What Elephants Eat Elephants eat roots, fruits, bark and grass. An adult elephant can eat up to 300 pounds of food a day. That is the weight of two adults. A

What Elephants use their tusks for. With its tusks an elephant can dig, rip the bark of trees, rest its heavy trunk and fight. M

What an Elephant uses its ears for. An elephant can use its ears to cool itself down. When an elephant flaps its ears, its blood temperature can drop by as much as 9 degrees. If an elephant wants to fight it will spread its ears out to make its head look twice the size. L

What an elephant uses its trunk for When an elephant squirts water from its trunk it is powerful enough to kill a human. The elephant can wash itself with its trunk like a shower. An elephant can carry heavy loads on its trunks. A

Interesting Facts Elephants are not scared of mice. They are scared of ants because when they eat the leaves that ants are on, the ants can crawl up the inside of their trunks. M

T H E N D E

Questions 1 – What type of ears do Asian elephants have? 2 - Tell me 2 foods that elephants eat. 3 - Tell me 2 things elephants use their tusks for.