African Elephant Research Paper

I. HABITAT FACTS

African Elephants are herbivores, which means that they eat plants in order to survive.

African Elephants eat roots, grasses, fruit, bark, broadleaved trees, shrubs, palms, vines, leaves, shoots, twigs, branches, and flowers in order to survive and can consume up to 300 pounds of food per day.

An unusual feeding habit the African Elephant has is that they spend more time looking for food then sleeping, spending up to twenty hours searching. They are almost constantly searching because they need to find enough food to sustain their massive bodies.

African Elephants mainly live in West African rainforests, Central African rainforests, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Sahel desert in Mali.

The conditions the African Elephant

Female elephants tend to herd in families with their children to protect their children, while adult male elephants tend to rome on their own.

II. ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS

The African Elephant uses its tusks and trunk as a tool to help survive in its environment. Its tusks are used to dig for food, water, and strip bark from trees. Its trunk is used to grab potential meals, like fruits in trees or on the floor. African Elephants also use their tusks for self defence, attacking any hostile predators.

A way in which the African Elephant is unique is that they lover showering themselves with water by sucking water into their trunks. After that they spray a coating of dust on their skin for protection from bugs.

The African Elephant are the largest land animals on earth and grow to 8.2 to 13 feet tall. Their ears are large, floppy, and somewhat look like the continent of Africa. They have wide and thick legs as well as long trunks.

A Calf is born through the mother Elephant. The African Elephant’s reproduction is very slow and a female gives birth only four to five years. It takes almost 22 months for a baby elephant to be born and are usually 200 pounds and stand about three feet tall when