The elephant is one kind of animal that is useful for people and environment. In the past people used elephants to go to war,to carry things and for transportation.
Elephant can use their ears, tusks, skin, and trunk to do a lots of thing to help environment, other animals and themselves. The elephant can fan their ears to make them cool down and shoo the insects away. Elephant can show their feelings by using their ears too. They also use their ears to make them look bigger when facing the enemies.The elephant can hear far away by their ears. The elephant tusks can be used to dig the root and make hold for water in dry season. The tusks can be used to carry thing,pull bark off from trees.Elephants can use their tusks when have enemies and impress other.The tusk is 3 meters long. Elephant used the skin to protect from the suffer insect .The elephant can protect their skin by roll in the the mud or shower with the dust. When the water trapped in the wrinkle of elephant it make them cool down. The elephant trunk is their nose and upper lip.The elephant trunk can help to smell, eat and throw thing. When the elephants itch they used their trunk to scratch. The elephant can be used their trunk to greet friend too. They use their trunk as a shower and do the snorkel when swimming. The elephant foots are thick.
The elephant is the largest land animal in the world. Elephants have two main group one is Savannah elephant and other is Forest elephant but the all are herbivores animals. Elephant eat 18 hour in a day. All kind of elephants eat grasses, bark of tree,twig, leaves and fruit. The adult elephant eat 181.4kg of food in a day. The elephant drinks 113.5 liter to 189 liter in a day.The elephants communicating by the trunk and the tusk.The large ear can defend the body. The elephant have 1000 muscle in their trunk and the trunk have no bone.The baby elephants has more than 110 kg but before they have a baby the needed to pregnant for 2 years.
The difference between Asian elephant and the African elephant is that the African elephant is about 3.04 meter tall but the Asian elephant is 2.4 meter to 3.04 meter tall. The male elephant weighs up to 5981 kg in African. In Asian the male elephant weigh up to 4989 kg .The large ear don’t reach shoulder for the Asian elephant but the African elephant have huge ear that cover the shoulder. The back of Asian elephant is rounded back. African elephant is flat back with a dip in the middle.The Asian elephant has short tusks and the short tusks are only found in some male. But for the african elephant has long tusks and the long tusks have on both male and female. The skin of african elephant is more wrinkled than asian elephant and brownish gray. But the skin of asian elephant is less wrinkled and color gray to brown with pink patches. The african elephant has flat crown of head with no dent in middle but for the asian elephant has crown of head and has a dome shape with dent in the middle.
The family group of elephant has all age of female and young male. The female elephant stay in the same group for their whole life. But for the male elephant they usually leave the group when between 12 to 17 years old to live alone or in small herb. For the older female elephant we called matriarch and she is the leads of the group. Matriarch also is the one who make important decision when she charge or flee in danger. The female elephants that live in the group they keep safely together and help find the food and the water.The female elephant have strong relationship. When the elephant kiss or wrap with their trunk it show affection. The elephant celebrate their birth by trumpeting. When has elephant die another elephant take the die elephant to bury with leaves and twigs. Years after years the elephant that has a life go to visit the bone and they mourn.
The elephants ecosystem helps keep biodiversity and give big choice for plants and animals ecosystem. It help animals and plants ecosystem by eating and also it help create gap in vegetation. When elephants eats the branches from big tree the small plant can grow and sometime it can make the path way too. The elephant can spread out the seed by their dung so it fertilize a new plants. The elephant also eat tree that grow out of control and the tree that block the sunlight. When no sunlight the grass can’t die then the Carnivores and grazer disappear. So when doesn’t has elephants the plants and some animals might disappear.