Exciting Elephants Fun Facts About Elephants

By Tara Rindt

What are elephants? They are big grey giants.

Elephants have a long nose.

These giants weigh about a school bus!

They love peanuts!

Elephants Habitat

They live in Africa and Asia. You can find them in zoos almost

anywhere. They live in dry , sandy and wet places.

What do elephants eat?

80-90 percent of it’s diet is grass.

They like plums, figs, berries, flowers, twigs, roots and bark.

One of the really popular food they eat are peanuts.

A Elephant’s Trunk Facts An adult trunk can be about 7 feet long!

They can suck up to 2 gallons of water in there trunks.

Sometimes babies are able to walk on their trunks.

They use their trunks to keep themselves safe.

They use their trunks as a snorkel.

Enormous Facts About Elephants

People thy to kill these big giants , but I want to save them.

Elephants can eat 300 pounds of food a day! That is one big elephant!

They use their tail as a fly swatter.

Bibliography

Wexo , John B. Elephants. Zoobooks. July 2010:1-16. Print.

“African Elephant.” Animals Creature Features . Natural Geographic KIDS. Web. 1 March 2013.