elephants

First off, there are two amazing types of elephants. The Asian and African elephant (the African Forrest elephant and the African bush elephant)/ three types.

African Forrest elephant

African bush elephant

An interesting fact about the tusks of elephants are, on the African elephant both male and female have them but on the Asian elephant only the male has tusks. The reason for this is because African elephants of both genders would need them more, Asian elephants wouldn’t need to use their tusks as much so that’s why only the male has them. Now let’s talk about the females, they have to hold a calf (baby elephant) in their stomach for 22 months and this could all be happening when the mother elephants are 12 years old. Female elephants are called cows and male elephants are called bulls.
Fun facts about their ears are that they are big and thin because they are a pretty intense network of blood vessels which help make the elephants body a regular temperature.  If their ears a hot their whole body is hot and if their ears are cold their body is cold. J

                      
An elephant’s trunk is like hands to humans they use them for everything from picking up things to drinking. An adult elephant needs to drink up to 210 liters of water a day! wow.  Another cool thing is that they can swim, by using their trunk as a snorkel. Awesome! J