4 Physical Adaptations for the African Elephant
- The Elephants have a long trunk. This long trunk can help them grab food in high trees.
- Their long tusks are curved and sharp, which allow them to dig up roots to eat or defend themselves with.
- There giant size really helps with their survival for many animals fear them
- The skin they have is so tough, not many things can peirce it. That really helps when they need to defend of a hoard of lions, tigers, etc.
4 Behavioral Adaptations for the African Elephant
- The Elephants also use their long trunk to suck up water and spray it on their back to cool off in hot biome.
- African Elephants have learned to, when hot, flap their giants ears to cool off the blood in their capillaries and distribute the cool blood throughout the body.
- These Elephants have to learned to use their tusks to dig down into the earth, during dry spells, for water.
- The Elephants trunks are also used to communicate to other elephants or warn them.