African Elephants are enormous creatures!
They are threatened but not endangered. Their tusks are very valuable to people who like to collect ivory. Piano keys, pool balls and collectable ornaments used to be made out of ivory, but as people realized that elephants had to die for ivory to be collected, it became illegal. Some people still like to collect ivory though, even though it’s illegal.
These animals can smell a long ways away. Both the female and the male can be very dangerous, especially when it is mating season or calving season. (Baby elephants are called calves)
Elephants live all over Africa. They eats roots, grasses, leaves, fruit and bark. They can eat a lot of food in one day, and a lot comes out the other end too.
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