• Elephants know how to use sticks as tools. They use sticks to scratch their backs, swat at flies, and defend themselves. • Elephants have a great memory. They can remember where they found water a long time ago. They recognize other elephants, and even people, a long time after they last saw them. • Elephants use their trunks, ears, and feet to communicate. They can make lots of sounds, from really loud trumpeting noises, to very low rumbling sounds that a person couldn’t even hear. Other elephants can hear them though, even when they are miles away.
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• When an elephant looks into a mirror, it knows that it is looking at itself. Most animals can’t do that.
Word Search
Can you find the 14 words and phrases in the list below?
WRINKLES TRUNK MEMORY WATER HOLE SAVANNAH TUSKS CALF AFRICA IVORY HERDS FOREST TRUMPET BIG EARS ASIA
Elephants don’t eat meat - only leaves, twigs and grass.
I V O R Y A C I K T D S T B C S A K E S A A S I A M L G N D E V U G F E F N M T W A T E R H O L E R H N R A I E R T M U I N U R C R E U O M L A N S A D S S R P L H K F W S T K Y E W R I N K L E S I T
An elephant doesn’t drink water through its trunk. It sucks up water with its trunk and then sprays the water into its mouth.
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Write an Elephant Haiku Haiku is a form of poetry that comes from Japan. The poems have three lines. The first and third lines each contain five syllables, or beats. The second line contains seven beats.
