Asian Elephant

10.Even though elephants have enoroumous ears, there hearing is very poor.

          Asian Elephant Diet

The elephant’s diet is very large. It is known that they can eat up to 3OO pounds of food. Elephants are herbivores and eat all types of vegetation such as grasses, leaves, fruits, and bark. Their diet varies from types of trees to wild mangos.

                                 Life Cycle

Female Asian elephants are capable of giving birth approximately every 4-6 years, about 7 calves in a lifetime. Babies are carried inside elephant mothers for 19-22 months, so almost 2 years. Asian elephants can live as long as 60-70 old. When adult male elephants search for a female to breed with they produce a signal to tell the females that they are ready to mate. Elephants live in families that are in control of the mother. Mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunts all help raising babies. Male Asian elephants live alone or in male only groups. The life cycle of the Asian elephant is also the same thing as the average human being. Elephants are fully grown at about the age of 2O years of age. Death usually comes for the elephants when their last set of molar’s cannot longer eat.

 

                                      

Predators

The main predator for the Asian elephant is Humans. The reason for this is because people like to keep there ivory tusks. People like to keep there tusks is because they want proof that they killed a elephant or to keep and sell. But for the baby elephants it’s a different story, usually the Asian lion is there predator.

                                Natural Habitat

Asian elephants habitat is a variety of tropical forests. Such as the Tropical savanna, tropical rainforest, tropical deciduous forest, mountains. There habitat can also be found in grass lands and farm areas.

                                

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                                Adaptations

The Asian elephant has six adaptations:

1. SIZE - Adult (male) weigh between 1800 and 4500kg. With the females weighing a bit less.
2. TRUNK - Far grapping, breathing, feeding, smelling, drinking, lifting, sound, communication, prote4ction and sensing. An Adult Asian elephant can hold up to 85 L or2.2 gallons of water in its trunk.
3. EARS – are used for 2 things, for hearing and for cooling off.
4. FOOT – the Skelton of an Asian elephant’s foot is angled with a large pad of fat and tissue at the heel.
5. SKIN – The Asian elephant’s skin is wrinkled in appearance, and it is very sensitive.
6. HAIR – Elephants have hair around its eyes, and ear openings.

               Warm or Cold Blooded?

Asian elephants are mammals, and mammals are warm blooded. So therefore they’re warm blooded creatures. Elephants have no problem keeping warm. They are big and fairly compact. For them too much heat on hot African days is the problem. They solve this by using their big ears as radiators. Blood flow into them and then heat is radiated off. To generate heat warm-blooded animals convert the food that they eat into energy. They have to eat a lot of food to have a lot of warmth.

                          Invertabate/Vertabate

Asian elephants have a very large backbone, so therefore they are vertebrates.  Animals with a internal Skelton made of bone are called vertebrates. Vertebrates are also interesting because they are easy to find. Many other groups of organisms cannot be seen with a naked eye. Humans, monkeys, amphibians, reptiles, birds and fish. Those are all examples of invertebrates.

                                Work Sited

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/asian-elephant.html

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