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The Asian Elephant

By Julia and Ida

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Food

The Asian Elephant eats grass, leaves, tree bark and woody stems. It also eats rice, sugar, and bananas. The Asian Elephant rips up grass by the root with its trunk. If the grass is to short, the elephant scrapes it into loose piles with a foot. It also rips branches from trees and chews off the leaves. Asian Elephants are herbivores; animals meaning that they only eat plants. They eat grass, leaves, shoots, bark, fruits, nuts, and seeds.

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Homes

The Asian Elephants are mostly found in the jungles in China and countries in Southeast Asia. The Asian Elephant lives where there are rainforest and tropical woodlands.

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Looks Like

Size: African Elephants have bigger ears than Asian Elephants. Asian Elephants are much smaller than African Elephants.The Asian Elephants are mostly 2m-3m (7ft -10ft)
Color: The Asian Elephants are mostly gray, brown and black.

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Interesting Facts

People are catching and abusing them to give people elephant rides .Elephants are thought to be suffering primarily due to habitat loss in the form of deforestation and hunting for their ivory tusks by human poachers.
Considered an endangered species with only around 50,000 left.

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Cited Sources

A-Z Animals http://a-z-animals.com/animals/asian-elephant/
Asian Elephant

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slide 1: Elephant in the jungle:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_elephant

slide 2: Elephant caring food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants_in_Kerala_culture

Slide 2 :a mom and baby elephant

http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/10012

slide 3: Elephant in the forest with a baby https://www.flickr.com/photos/tontan travel/20853454891

slide 4: Elephant by a tree

https://www.flickr.com/photos/frted/410058656

Image Sources:

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Image Sources

Slide 4: Elephant standing on the grond http://www.deviantart.com/tag/proboscidea?offset=50

slide 5: Elephant lying on the ground

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sleeping_asian_elephant.jpg

Slide 5: baby elephants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCOkbH1kfDU