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"But behind the enormous size hides a fascinating
and mysterious world."
- Transition
- The trunk is to an elephant
what both hands and a nose
is to a human being.
- "It's this close relationship that allows elephants to acquire the knowledge needed for survival."
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Paragragh1.
Quick View
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Well-Recognizable identities
- Fan-like Ears
- Tusks
- Trunk
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Well-favored stars
- zoos
- circuses
- Hollywood
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Family Tree
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Ancestry
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Dates back 37 million years
- aquatic
- Today: The trunk being used as a snorkel
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Mammoth
- 4.8 million years B.P. to 4,500 years B.P.
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Species
- Asian Elephant(Indian Elephant)
- African Forest Elephant
- African Savannah Elephant
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Paragreagh3.
The Trunk
- Formed of an extremely long nose and upper lip
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Usage
- Picking tiny things
- Strong Lifter: Pulling an entire tree out of the ground
- Breathing and smelling
- Feeding
- Drinking
- Touching
- Communicating
- Significance
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Intelligence, Sense, and Other Abilities
(Or Intelligence and Versatility)
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Tools
- sticks being used to scratch the body
- Special way of communication
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Sense
- Feel vibrations miles away
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Good Memory
- Updating
- Passed down from generation to generation
- e.x. The dread of the Massai people's clothes
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Herd Structure/Family Composition/Society
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Highly sociable
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Herd: Feminine-Dominant Family
- The males will leave when approaching adulthood
- The oldest and most experienced female rules the herd
- Main Point
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Paragrapgh6.
Birth and Death
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Life Span/Life Expectancy
- Similar to that of human being
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Newborn
- 22 months of pregnancy
- Baby: 1meter high, 135 kilograms heavy
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Aunts and cousins
- Take care of the baby together
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Distant relatives
- Travel long distances to bestow their wishes
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Death
- Mournful ritual for days
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Conclusion
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Review
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Exterior
- Meek-looking
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Interior
- Amazing Intelligence
- Abundant Emotional responses
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Sum
- the King of Beasts