1. Elephants
BY: Zachery Miller

2. First stages of elephants
When elephants are born they have weak senses so they need there moms to help them around.
They weigh a whole lot more than the average baby animal they weigh 250 pounds at birth.

3. Early stages continued
Baby elephants suck there trunks before they learn how to use them right. It is just like a human they have to learn how to do stuff right.
Elephants are called calf's when they are born and the vast majority are born at night.

4. The adolescent stage
This is when the elephants do not depend on there mothers as much.
Age anywhere from 5-10 and it lasts to about 17 years old.
They begin to break away from main herd and start little herds called bachelor herds.

5. Adulthood
Adult hood starts at age 18 they normally have life spans of 70 years.
Elephants start mating at age 20.

6. Mid life for elephants At age 50 Elephants stop bearing calf's.
They start getting cardiovascular diseases and arthritis.
The females always help the other elephants raise the younger ones.

7. Older life
They pretty much continue to live the same way in till they die like helping the herd out.

8. Habitats
Elephants can live any where with enough food for them. Like swamps deserts and grasslands.
Most elephants living today live in Africa on preserves.
They like to roam and don’t mind to so they can play and bathe.

9. Diet Elephants can eat 300 to 400 pounds of food per day.
They mainly eat plants like bamboo and leaves.
They have been known to eat bananas grown by farmers.

10. Species The African elephant and Asian elephant.
The Asian elephants are much smaller and only some have tusks.
The African elephants are larger and have fan shaped ears different from the Asian straight up from the bottom.
African on left Asian on right

11. Elephant predators
Alligators
Tigers
Lions
Hyenas

12. Elephants acting
Elephants are known for acting they perform in movies and in circuses.
The have escaped the circus before.

13. Elephant attacks
Elephants are normally not aggressive but sometimes they attack.

14. Elephants doing people things
A elephant painted a picture before.
They have good memory so they could probably paint past events if they were trained to paint.

15. Elephants do bring in the crowd people feed them peanuts.
Elephants in the Zoo
Elephants do no live as long in zoos as they naturally do in the wild.
In the Zoos they are protected from poachers.
Elephants do bring in the crowd people feed them peanuts.

16. Messing up the natural process of elephant life.
There was a overpopulation of elephants so they killed all of the old ones.
The younger elephants went out of control because the older ones were not there to teach them.

17. Related animals
Mammoths are closely related to the elephants. But mammoths are bigger.

18. speed
Elephants can run 15 mph.
The USAtoday proved it.

19. Quick facts

20. Keeping them safe
There are places where elephants can go to keep safe from poachers
The Elephant sanctuary is one it is for old Elephants.

21. Works cited
Smithsonian.com
Greentravelguides.com
Worldwildlife.org
Library.sandiagozoo.com
animals.nationalgeographic.com