In this video we are learning about elephants.
Let's start here what are elephants?
Well elephants are huge mammals that have a long trunk and big ears. Oh look at this elephant taking a walk through a field we mentioned the elephants are huge and when we say they are huge we are not kidding in fact African elephants are the largest land animals in the world. Ok and you might be wondering just how big are African elephants it's incredible. African elephants can get as tall as 13 feet and can weigh as many as 14,000 pounds that is massive. So if anyone ever asks you what is the largest land animal in the world you know what to tell them yhe African elephant. They can get as many as 13 feet tall and 14,000 pounds in weight so elephants are massive. African elephants are so big they are the largest land animals in the world. Ok but where can you find elephants living in the wild do you know? Okay why are we showing an elephant in a neighborhood okay this is not the natural habitat of an elephant.
Ok 11 neighborhoods where in the world can you find wild elephants in their natural habitats. Oh right we can work with this a world map now let's look at the world map to find out where elephants live in the wild. Well elephants live in the wild in parts of Africa South Asia and Southeast Asia. Let's say those places again and make sure you look at where they are on the map elephants live in the wild in parts of Africa South Asia and Southeast Asia. This next fact is the fact you're gonna want to share with someone okay. Check this out a group of elephants is called a parade isn't that a neat name for a group of elephants a group of elephants is called uh uh-huh a parade. Now if you ever see a parade of elephants you're probably gonna see baby elephants in the parade do you happen to know what baby elephants are called yeah baby elephants are called calves can you say that word calves baby elephants. Aren't called calves now we are going to talk about a very special part of an elephant's body called the trunk. The long trunk of an elephant is super. Helpful here you can see an elephant using its trunk to eat that is how an elephant brings food to its mouth using its trunk and elephant couldn't survive without its trunk. You see elephants use their trunks to bring food and water to their mouths. They also use their trunks to breathe and to smell. The trunk of an elephant not only brings food and water to an elephant's mouth but it also functions as their nose elephants also. Use their trunks to give themselves baths and more. Elephant trunks are so important to the elephants speaking of baths elephants give themselves something called a dust bath. Huh it might seem strange to us right why would an elephant give itself a bath with dirt but dust baths are a great way for elephants to help their skin and to fight against nasty insects called parasites.
Isn't that awesome for an elephant taking a dust bath is a smart thing to do. Which shouldn't be surprising because elephants are incredibly smart. They are incredibly smart in fact elephants have a larger brain than any other land mammal. That's right and their brain can get as big as 13 pounds 13 pounds imagine a 13 pound brain. Wow elephants are so smart and their brains are so huge that is why elephants are famous for their incredible memory. Elephants have an amazing memory they can remember places other elephants. Things that happen to them they can remember people they have an amazing memory. Next time you have a test you could think wow I wish that I was an elephant and was able to remember so much so easily but as people our memory isn't as good we've got to work. Really hard for it but elephants can remember incredibly well.
Okay it is time for our final elephant fact and it has to do with what elephants eat and the fact is this elephants are herbivores. Now what's a herbivore uh-huh herbivores are animals that just eat plants and that's. What an elephant is an elephant is or her before an animal that just eats plants they don't eat meat. Do you like to eat plants cool plants are tasty and healthy too. Hey what was your favorite elephant fact yeah you we'd love to hear from you share below something.
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