All About African Elephants

All About African Elephants

Introduction This animal has a trunk and tusks. It has wrinkled skin and big ears. It has big feet with pads on the bottom. It lives in Africa. It is an African elephant!

Elephants are the biggest animals living on land. They can weigh as much as a trunk! The biggest elephants live in Africa.

An Elephant's Body An elephant has a long trunk. The trunk is an elephant's nose and lip. But an elephant also uses its trunk like a hand. An elephant can pick up a tiny leaf or a big branch with its trunk. Sometimes an elephant uses its trunk to take a shower!

All Afican elephants have tusks. Tusks are long teeth that don't stop growing. These elephants use their tusks to dig holes. They also use them to carry things. An Elephant will even rest its trunk on its tusks. African elephants have big ears. On hot day, elephants flap their big ears to cool off.

An elephant's skin is wrinkled. It looks very tough, but it is not. Elephants can get bug bites and sunburns. An elephant protects its skin by covering it with mud and dirt. Elephant have big feet with pads on the bottom. The pads let the elephant walk quietly.