They are made of ivory. The African bull can grow tusks 6 to 8 feet long. Elephants have small eyes and a short neck. Elephants thick skin is gray and wrinkled. The African elephant has dark gray skin and the Asiatic elephant has light gray skin.
Elephants are the only animal that have a trunk for a nose.
The trunk is a combined nose and upper lip. It has no bones. The trunk of an adult elephant is about 5 feet long. Habitat Wild elephants live only in Africa south of the Sahara and in the southern and southeastern parts of Asia. They are found in forests and jungles.