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Sunday School Activity Sheet: Elephants

tags: elephant, elephant, animal, herd, jumbo, ivory

handout id: 3213
short name: Elephants
nutshell: Elephants

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Elephants make many different noises. They can scream, and trumpet, growl and rumble, and they can even signal to each other with sounds so deep we humans can't hear them.

Elephants take 25 years to reach their full size, and they can live to 80.

Elephants, like people, go through several stages in life. They are babies, and children, and adolescents, and mature and then they reach old age.

A herd of elephants sticks together, like a big family. Mums and Dads, uncles and aunts, nephews and nieces.

A very famous elephant was an African male called Jumbo. He was part of the Barnum Circus. Most people at that time thought that only elephants from Asia could be trained, but Jumbo did many wonderful tricks, and he was also tame and friendly.

Elephants can eat a lot of food! One elephant can eat 200 kg of food in one day - but they can live on a lot less if they are fed wheat cakes.

Some people think elephants have their own graveyards, but this is not true. The reason so few elephant bones are found is because scavengers always take them away.

Elephant tusks are really the top front two teeth grown out a long way. These teeth (called ivory) are often used to carve things, but today ivory is hard to find, so substitutes are being made out of egg shells and other things.

Elephants don't really like having birds and things walking around on them.

Elephants can't turn their heads from side to side, so they turn their whole body round when they want to look somewhere.

Elephants lie down to sleep, or stand up. They don't usually sleep for long - maybe 2 or 3 hours. They also like sunbathing and dozing.

An elephant uses its trunk for many things -pulling branches off trees, hitting to defend itself, picking up leaves and berries, smelling, breathing, sucking up water to wash itself, or to throw dust to cool itself, or to drink (4 litres at a time), digging holes to find water, and feeling things.

God made elephants really well!
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