AFRICAN ELEPHANT                                                                       

• Common name is African Elephant
• It's scientific class is a Mammal because it has very small spread out hairs all over it's body.
• it also has a scientific genus. It is loxotonta.
• its species is an elephant
• Its biome is sometimes the forest sometimes the savannah.
• It is found all over Southern Africa
• Its special adaptations are its trunk, fan shaped ears, tusks, and legs.
•  It is 10 to 12 feet tall.
• It can also weigh up to 12,000 pounds!!
• Its body covering is wrinkly and feels kind of like leather.
• the elephant is very big, ( the biggest land mammal on the planet!) it has tusks made out of ivory (which is why they are endangered beacause poachers are hunting them against the law!) it has a really cool trunk, big ears and a small tail.
• The african elephant is warm blooded or in othe words, endothermic.
• The name of the elephants young is calves.
• If an elephant is in a group we call them a herd then.
• Two related species are the wooly mammoth and the manatee.
• It is a herbivore.
• It eats shrub leaves, herbs, and roots.
• the african elephant has no pradators unless it is a baby then tigers, lions and crocodiles.
• It doesn't need to have a defensive attack because of their large size.
• It talks to other elephants in its herd too, they sometimes on their journeys they come across a dead carcass and actually stop to mourn.
•  One way of communication is for to take its trunk and touch another elephant in  the herds fore head.
• Sadly, the african elephant is on the endangered list because of poachers that are poaching them for their ivory tusks.

• • my resources were
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant
  • http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/african-elephant.html
  • http://www.seaworld.org/Animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/mammalia/proboscidea/african-elephant.htm
  • http//:www.wiki.answers.com/

  • http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/cyberzoo/africanelephant.html