African Elephants

For my project I did African elephants. African elephants are herbivores. They eat roots, grasses, fruit, and bark. They can eat up to 600 pounds a day. African elephants are mammals. African elephants live in the savannas, forests, beaches, mountains and deserts. All the places they live are very hot. Sometimes it is difficult to find food because it is so dry. They can live up to 70 years in the wild. They belong to the Eliphantidae family. African elephants live in groups made up of females and babies. They have very strong family bonds. A older wiser female leads the group. All of the females teach the babies almost everything the babies need to learn. When the males get to 12 years old they leave the group. Sometimes they live alone or sometimes they live in small groups of young males.

The females teach the babies almost everything they know. African elephants can call to each other with a sort of growl. Another African elephant can sense this by laying its trunk on the ground. Another behavior that they do is when a predator is nearby all the older females circle around the babies so nothing can penetrate their circle. African elephants could be extinct in 20 years if we don't do anything to stop poachers, pollution, habitat loss and global warmingThe amount of African elephants dropped from 1.2 million to 600,000 from 1979-1989. The biggest reason that elephants are dying is because of poachers. 1 tusk is worth $1,000. Over 38,000 of them are poached in one year. By Julia W.