1. Alex Johnson
Elephants

2. Classification Kingdom- Animalia Phylum- Chordate Class- Mammalia
Order- Proboscidge
Family-Elephantidge
Genus- Loxodanta
Species- african

3. Shape
Very large land mammal with four legs and a trunk on there face and big floppy ears.

4. Dimensions Length- 9 meters long Height- 12 ft tall at the shoulder
Weight- 2 to 7 tons
Colors and markings- a darker grey

5. Habitat
Africa and Asia. Adapt to almost any habitats. Forests woodland grassy plain savanna swamps and desserts.

6. Diet

7. Family Life Elephants have one or very rarely have two babies.
They carry their offspring for around 2 years.
They normally have their offspring in the spring of the year.
They care for there offspring for two years.

8. Social Behavior Males will associate with other males in small groups.
Females social structure is similar to a concentric ring.

9. Habits and unique behavior
Bulls assess each others strength through spalling or play fighting the level of dominance is related to a bulls size power and weight.

10. Temperament
The elephants temperament is when it is around humans it is mean.

11. Defenses
There run and trunk

12. Acquiring food
They use there trunk

13. Life-span
50-60 years. Sometimes they make it to their 70’s and an 80 year old has been spotted but it is very rare.

14. history
Elephants were first captured in the Indus valley about 4000 b.c. Elephants played an essential role in logging and other lifting and transporting tasks.

15. Present status
Today it would be hard for elephants to live for long periods of time with living out of captivity.

16. Sources www.seaworld.org www.answers.com www.buzzle.com