Elephant - Habitat And Food
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Because of their high intelligence level, elephants can adapt to and modify habitat, while their wide range of food choices permits habitation of a diverse range of ecosystems, including forest, woodland, savanna, grassy plains, swampy areas, and sparsely vegetated desert. Unfortunately, because of massive poaching for ivory and the destruction of much of the elephant's natural habitat, most African elephants are now restricted to the protection of national parks. Not so long ago, however, they freely followed age-old seasonal migration routes from one habitat to another.
Elephants need massive quantities of food, perhaps 300–350 lb (136–159 kg) a day, although proportional to their body-weight elephants eat less than mice. The diet of elephants includes roots, bark, grass, leaves, berries, seedpods, and other fruits. Elephants will uproot trees to obtain tasty treats from the top, or delicately pluck a single berry from a branch. Elephants never roam far from water, and will travel great distances in search of it. They may drink up to 50 gal (189 l) of water a day, and after drinking their fill, will splash themselves with water and mud, wash their young, and sometimes just frolic, tossing and squirting water about while their young splash, play, and roll in the mud. Surprisingly, populations of these water-loving creatures may inhabit desert areas, using their tusks and trunk to dig for water under dry river beds. The knowledge of where to find water is handed down from one generation to another.
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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12 months ago
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10 months ago
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12 months ago
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over 3 years ago
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almost 4 years ago
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10 months ago
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about 3 years ago
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almost 2 years ago
Tyle' Swart
Hi, I am in Grade 5 and am doing a project. My Mom comes from Zimbabwe so I chose to do my projects on elephants. She loves them. Thank you for all the good information. I also hope that My family and me can go to a National park to see them in the wild one day. Thank you Tyle'
over 2 years ago
i have to tell about my animals habitat? & what would happen if my animal dissapeared from its ecosytem? & my animal is a elephant it helped a little not much but thanx!
11 months ago
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over 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
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almost 4 years ago
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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about 3 years ago
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about 1 year ago
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Elephant - Habitat And Food
over 3 years ago
I never knew there was so much information on elephants and how they live, eat, sleep and even things like how much fectal and urine they put out. This and other web sites are amazing. Please keep up the good work. I Love Elephants! Have a great day.
over 3 years ago
verry useful information for my school research paper... but you might want to add more about How They Travel, and just more information over all. but thanks for what you have now....
over 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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over 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
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about 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
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almost 4 years ago
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almost 4 years ago
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8 months ago
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about 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
i never knew that mice eat more than elephant that is very hard to belive but other than that i really enjoyed reading this
over 3 years ago
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almost 4 years ago
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3 months ago
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6 months ago
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9 months ago
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9 months ago
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9 months ago
I would like to know if elephants can eat meat.
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