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Author: Beatriz Ulloa

Illustrator: Beatriz Ulloa & Ms.Chain's First Grade Class 2014-15

Asian elephants are found in Nepal, India and Southeast Asia. Changes 

in their environment though have led to them being found in Indochina.

Male elephants leave the herd when they are around thirteen years old. 

They will then either travel alone or in bachelor groups.

They are able to communicate through rumbles, growls, bellows, and 

moans. These sounds can travel for a mile or more.

For thousands of years, Asian elephants have been domesticated. 

People use them to move heavy objects, to ride on their backs, and 

even to start a war.

Do to the loss of habitat, illegal hunting, and the capturing of Asian 

elephants they are an endangered species. There are only about 30,000 

of these elephants left today.

On the upper lip of their trunk Asian elephants have a single “finger.” 

This is different from the African elephant which have a “finger” on 

the upper and lower tip of their trunk.

When elephants meet they extend their trunk as a form of greeting. 

Asian elephants are herbivorous, which means they only eat plants. The 

vegetation they eat is grasses, leaves, shoots, fruits, nuts, and seeds.

Young elephants being making independent moves at the age of four. 

Their mother will still supervise them until they are around thirteen 

years old.

Elephants do not feel comfortable when all four feet are off the 

ground. That is why they can not jump.

Elephants are known to be good swimmers, they swim with their 

mouth underwater and their trunk above water. Their trunk acts like 

a snorkel helping them to breath.

Compared to other mammals, Asian elephants have the longest 

pregnancy. It last for 22 months. 

The matriarch of a herd is usually known as the oldest female. She 

is the one that sets the pace for the herd to travel and decides 

where they go.

The trunk of an elephant is a long nose that has many functions. It 

helps an elephant smell, breath, trumpet, and drink water.

In order to send out the heat their bodies make, Asian elephants 

keep their ears in motion all the time. 

Besides hunters, tigers are the primary predator of the Asian 

elephants. Tigers will usually hunt the elephant calves, instead of the 

stronger adult elephants.

Even though elephants are huge animals, they are actually 

really quite walkers.

The Asian elephant plays an important role in the cultures and 

religions of countries in most of ranges that they are found.

Their skin color is dark gray to brown and have patches of pink 

on their forehead, ears, base of the trunk and chest.

Male Asian elephants have tusks, while some females have short tusk 

known as tushes. Male elephants are hunted, because of the ivory 

found in their tusks.

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