Elephant Facts
Around the World
Elephant History
Habitat & Food
Conservation
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This is the largest land animal on earth.
What is an elephnat?
100
African Elephants live on this continent.
What is Africa?
100
The prehistoric relatives of elephants included this famous animal with long, curved tusks and hairy body.
What is the woolly mammoth?
100
Elephants are herbivores, meaning they eat mostly this type of food.
What are plants?
100
August 12 is celebrated each year with this.
What is World Elephant Day?
200
An elephant uses this long body part to smell, grab food, drink water, and communicate.
What is a trunk?
200
Asian Elephants are found primarily on this continent.
What is Aisa?
200
Mammoths lived during this geological period commonly called the Ice Age.
What is the Pleistocene?
200
Elephants love to eat this tall grass, which can make up a significant part of their diet.
What is elephant grass?
200
The illegal killing of elephants for their tusks is call this.
What is poaching?
300
These large structures on an elephant's face are actually elongated teeth?
What are tusks?
300
The two main species of elephant living today are African elephants and these elephants.
What are Asian elephants?
300
This famous military leader crossed the Apls with elephants during the Second Punic War.
Who is Hannibal?
300
An adult elephant spends 12 to 18 hours doing this each day.
What is eating?
300
Training and equipping wildlife scouts to monitor elephants and deter poachers, protecting herds and calves.
What are Anti-poaching efforts?
400
Elephants use their ears partly to help regulate this.
What is body temperature?
400
This African country is home to one of the world's largest elephant populations.
What is Botswana?
400
Ancient Eqyptians depicted elephants and other animals in their art and records. Eqypt is located on what continent?
What is Africa?
400
How many pounds of food and gallons of water does an elephant consume in a day?
330-660 pounds of food
30-50 gallons of water
400
Establishing wildlife corridors and protected areas, such as the Sekute Conservation Area in Zambia and the KAZA transboundary conservation area in southern Africa, to allow elephants to roam freely.
What are Habitat Protections?
500
Elephants are known for having an excellent memory, but they also have a remarkable ability to recognize individuals using this sense.
What is smell?
500
Unlike African elephants, most Asian elephants have this feature that is small and more rounded.
What are their ears?
500
Scientists believe modern elephants share a common ancestor with this unusual group of aquatic animals.
What are manatees and dugongs?
500
By knocking down trees, spreading seeds, and creating pathways, elephants can have a major impact on this.
What is their ecosystem/habitat?
500
Conservation efforts have stabilized or increased populations in some regions, but elephants remain at risk. What percentage of African elephant habitats are formally protected?
In Asia, roughly what percentage of elephants live outside protected areas?
20% of African elephant habitats are formally protected
About 70% of elephants live outside protected areas in Asia.