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Elephants

By Lily McGraw
The Elephants a very important animal. It has the ability to cry! When an Elephant passes by a time where the Elephants were threatend they cry! It also has alot of family members in southern Africa and Aisa. The Elephant is a herbivore. Herbivores eat plants not meat. The Elephants eat tree roots, grass, bark of a tree, berrys, and leafs. Elephants can eat 300 pounds of food in one day. Water is very useful even to the elephants they drink as much as 2 gallons (7.5 litters). The place where Elephants live is very hot. They use water to bathe themselves in. Then they suck up dust and put it on there backs for a protection layer. They also fight with their tusks when ther in danger. An Elephants trunk is 7 feet long (2 meters).The Elephant uses its trunk to eat, drink, and smell. It also uses the trunk like a snorkel when the elephant is swimming in deep water.The elephant lastly uses its trunk for protection. The adlut elephant fights for the baby with its tusks and trunk. With her trunk the mother hugs its baby when the baby is frightend or scared. The baby can also suck its trunk when its scared.
 * ===The Elephant===
 * ===An Elephants diet===
 * ===What Elephants do to survive===
 * ===The Trunk===

=FAST FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!=
 * Female Elephants are pregnet for 22 months
 * elephants travel in herds
 * elphants travel more than 5 miles every day