Elephants

6) How long is the elephant's gestation period, and how large is the baby elephant at birth?

2 years; 85 cm tall/120kg

2) Name the two species of elephants and name three differences between them.

Asian and African African is bigger, known to have more wrinkles, and longer tusks. Asian elephants are smoother and have different shaped heads.

7) What is musth? What are two signs that an elephant is in musth?

comes to makes twice a year; breeding; high levels of testosterone; more likely to attack a larger elephant. periodic condition in bull elephants (male) characterize by highly aggressive behavior and accompanied with a large rise in reproductive hormones.

5) The elephant's trunk is its most distinctive feature. List the functions that it performs.

reach for food water drinking from water holes consume elephant dung (poop) helps aid children grip things use as 'snorkel gear'

8) How do elephants communicate over great distances?

rumbles of very low frequencies, infrasound

1) How does an elephant's skeleton support its massive weight?

the arrangement of their leg bones.

3) Why do elephants have wrinkled skin

the more wrinkles, the greater the surface area, the cooler the elephant.

4) What does the term "pachyderm" mean?

thick-skinned animals