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Real Or Fake Sammy Taylor December 18, 2013

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__ African Elephants __

African Elephants travel in herds. Elephants are likely to become extinct in Africa in 54 years. African elephants are the world largest terrestrial animals. Elephants are becoming extinct because hunter are using there tusks to make clothing and then selling the clothing. Elephants have really big ears! Their tusks are there to protect them. The tusks are also used for killing and feeding. Elephants cover themselves in mud so that the heat won’t hurt them! (kin d of like our some screen). There length is 6–7.5m! Their shoulder height is 3.3m! T he color of the elephants are brownish gray. Their habitat is Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests, Flooded Grasslands and Savannahs, Miombo woodlands, Sometimes Cold Regions and Acacia Savannah's! Usually, they eat<range type="comment" id="480888322_10"> bark,leaves, fruit and bambo! Elephants are mammals.Their diet is herbivors. Female elephants have their diet as cow, but the males have it as bulls. <range type="comment" id="480888322_12">Elephants and woolly mammoths are in the same family.</range id="480888322_12">A single calf is born every <range type="comment" id="480893220_1">2.5-9 years</range id="480893220_1">. Elephants live for about 100 years.
 * Kingdom || Animalia ||
 * Phylum || Chordata ||
 * Class || Mammal ||
 * Order || Proboscidea ||
 * Family || Elephantide ||

Fun Facts Elephants are the largest land animals in the world. • The largest elephant on record was an ad ult male African elephant. It weighed about 24,000 pounds and was 13 feet tall at the shoulder! • Elephants can live to be over 70 years old. • Only one mammal can’t jump — the elephant. • The average weight for an elephant heart is about 27 to 46 pounds! • Elephants have a highly developed brain and the largest of all the land mammals. The brain is 3 or 4 times larger than that of humans although smaller as a proportion of body weight. • Elephants have a slow pulse rate of 27. For a canary it is 1000! • An elephant’s skin is an inch thick. media type="custom" key="24793016"

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There are many grammar mistakes... especially "their"