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African Elephant
By: LMB
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Fun Facts
Kingdom: Animalia
- multicellular
- heterotrophs
- ingest and digest food
- lack cell walls in plant cells
Phylum: Chordata
- have a notochord and ventral heart
- complete digestive system
- bony/cartilaginous endoskeleton usually present
- bilateral symmetry
- three germ layers
- tail
Class: Mammalia
- three middle ear bones called malleus, incus, and stapes
- hair
- mammary glands
- feed newborn milk
Order: Proboscidea
- herbivores
- increase in size
- long muscular trunk
- males have a pair of huge tusks
- modern elephants have five cheek teeth
- skull is short and high
- skeleton is adapted to bear massive weight
Family: Elephantidea
- only family member is Asian Elephant
Genius and Species: Loxodonta
- it is an African Elephant
References:
Poem
Elephants are cool,
they have many unique characteristics
that you can learn at school.
They have huge tusks, ears,
and very long trunk
and they don't smell like skunks!
Fun Facts
- Baby elephants weigh 200 - 250 pounds.
- An elephant can live to 60 years old and older.
- Puberty of elephants can start at the age of 16 or 17.
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