### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Elephant
* All elephants have tusks, except for female Asian elephants
  - reproduce sexually
* Can Remember.
* Every elephant is an animal.
* Many elephants are killed for their tusks.
* Most elephants appear in Africa
  - habitats
* Most elephants are a brownish-gray
  - killed by animals
* Most elephants are located in Africa
  - ecosystems
  - on ground
  - avoid people
  - breathe through mouths
  - can have babies
* Most elephants carry babies
  - fetuses
  - ivory
  - tourists
* Most elephants come from Africa
  - regions
  - in contact
  - compete for food
  - cross rivers
  - depend on plants
  - descend from animals
* Most elephants die of causes
  - natural causes
  - drink water
* Most elephants eat apples
  - bushes
  - fruit
  - grass
  - leaves
  - lunch
* Most elephants engage in activities
  - sexual activities
  - enter water
  - feed in groups
* Most elephants feed on fruit
  - tree fruit
* Most elephants give birth to elephants
  - offspring
  - go to water
  - graze in grass
* Most elephants grow ivory
  - teeth
* Most elephants has-part bones
  - extremities
  - eyes
  - feet
  - jaws
  - legs
  - molars
  - muscles
  - noses
  - skin
* Most elephants have brains
  - brown skin
  - curve spines
  - development
  - distinctive features
  - hoof toes
  - long tails
* Most elephants have many features
  - unique features
  - mass
  - memory
  - outgrowths
  - peculiar structures
  - proboscises
  - ribs
  - senses
* Most elephants have several distinctive features
  - toenails
  - weight
* Most elephants hear noise
  - sound
* Most elephants inhabit areas
  - grassland
  - open grassland
  - same areas
  - live for years
* Most elephants live in Africa
  - climates
  - environments
  - herds
  - natural habitats
  - rainforests
  - savanna
  - urban environments
* Most elephants live on continents
  - earth
  - green grass
  - vegetation
  - love fruit
  - make waste
  - mourn death
  - move ears
  - occur in Africa
* Most elephants play in fields
* Most elephants possess blood
  - bodies
  - cells
  - chromosomes
  - genes
  - heartbeats
* Most elephants prefer habitats
* Most elephants reach height
  - sexual maturity
* Most elephants require food
  - litre water
  - sustenance
* Most elephants resemble extinct mammals
* Most elephants seek food
  - homes
  - share earth
* Most elephants stand on feet
  - hind legs
  - suck water
  - suffer from cardiovascular problems
  - turn tails
* Most elephants use ears
  - trunks
* Most elephants walk on feet
  - wear ivory
  - weigh lbs
* Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale's tongue
  - the tongue of the blue whale
  - pounds
  - tonnes
  - tons
* Some elephants adapt to lifestyle
  - affect pregnancy
* Some elephants appear in environments
* Some elephants are evolved from ancestors
  - inside Africa
* Some elephants are located in environments
  - jungle
  - zoos
  - member of circus
  - avoid enemies
  - can have kids
* Some elephants carry people
  - soldiers
  - trainers
  - viruses
  - cause crop damage
* Some elephants come from zoos
  - out of water
* Some elephants consume bamboo
  - whole trees
  - cross roads
* Some elephants destroy grass
  - vines
  - develop a white ring that encircles the iris as they mature
  - dig holes
* Some elephants eat bamboo
  - beans
  - crops
  - hay
  - seeds
  - vegetables
  - escape from herds
* Some elephants feed on grass
  - mangroves
* Some elephants follow migration routes
  - give birth to animals
* Some elephants graze in environments
  - reeds
* Some elephants grow cells
* Some elephants have birthdays
  - expectancy
  - life expectancy
  - natural predators
  - phases
  - prey
  - remarkable human quality
  - smaller ears
  - succession
* Some elephants help a girl learn to count
  - hit puberty
  - induce labour by self-medicating with certain plants
* Some elephants inhabit basins
  - congo basins
  - kill men
* Some elephants live in India
  - Nepal
  - Tanzania
  - Thailand
  - pairs
  - sanctuaries
* Some elephants live on environments
* Some elephants love baths
  - make migration
  - perform in circuses
* Some elephants play in Africa
  - countries
  - roles
  - pose threats
* Some elephants possess children
  - mechanisms
  - sides
  - prefer environments
  - regrow teeth
  - require parents
  - rub the resulting discharge on tree trunks, perhaps to leave messages behind
  - sit on chests
  - spend almost their whole lives in chains
  - stand in rivers
  - swim in water
  - touch bones
  - transmit viruses
* Some elephants use energy
  - mud
  - visit herds
  - walk on toes
  - work with trainers
* abound in northern Botswana.
* act as 'nature's gardeners', dispersing undigested plant seeds through their dung.
* also cool themselves by spraying themselves with water
  - engage in audible communication when it's time to mate
* also have enormous ears which they use as cooling devices
  - four molars, one on the top and one on the bottom on both sides of the mouth
  - huge ears which they stretch out to keep cool
  - other, lesser known distinguishing characteristics
  - kill pups when fighting either other for female
  - live in the desert
  - love water and, when they can, bathe every day
  - possess one of the most well developed senses of smell in the animal kingdom
  - show interest in the bones of their dead
  - throw mud and water on themselves to cool off
* also use a broad range of sounds to communicate
  - chemical cues to detect coded messages
  - it for feeding and for friendly wrestling matches with other elephants
* also use their trunk as a snorkel when crossing deep rivers
  - trunks for drinking water, bathing, and eating and communicating
  - tusks for digging
* always get more attention than mice, especially in the press.
* appear during the monsoon with the availability of water.
* appear to experience grief and spend time with the remains of dead kin
  - feel grief, while dolphins and whales express joy, or something much like it
  - make allowances for other members of their herd
  - use seismics for a number of purposes
* are a group of mammals
  - huge part of popular culture and show up as metaphors across all media
* are a keystone species in East Africa
  - major concern for villagers wherever they coexist with humans
  - useful indicator species, as they have a relatively low reproduction rate
* are able to communicate over miles and miles of territory infrasonically
  - distinguish low amplitude sounds
  - adaptable and can live in a variety of environments
  - almost extinct in India
  - already over hunted for their tusks
* are also capable of swimming, even in deep waters
  - well-known for their gentleness
* are amazing animals to see in their own environment
  - amazingly strong and can hold or pull a lot of mass altogether
  - among the few species known to use tools
* are among the most popular animals in Zoos, but also the most criticized
  - visited animals in zoos nationally
  - beautiful, majestic, respected creatures or tall and proud stature
* are big and strong and tough and are sometimes enraged by the very scent of man
  - animals with long noses called trunks
* are bigger than cats
  - lions, and elephants are bigger than chickens
  - buoyant and come with built-in snorkels
* are capable of breathes
  - consuming fibrous vegetation
  - doing very hard work
  - swimming twenty miles a day
  - vocal learning
  - swimmers
  - charismatic creatures
  - clean animals
  - complete hedonists
  - complex, highly intelligent social mammals
* are considered endangered species
  - one of the most intelligent of all land animals
  - to be keystone species due to the impact they have on their environments
  - crepuscular
  - diurnal, or active during the day
  - dominant in regions where they live
  - easy targets for poachers, sharpshooters, tusk collectors, and trophy hunters
  - emblems
  - entirely vegetarian
  - especially protective of their young
  - essential to the survival of many other less well equipped animals
  - eukaryotes, because they are multicellular and their organelles are membrane bound
  - exclusively herbivorous and they feel home in savanna, forests, and semi-deserts
  - extremely intelligent animals and have memories that span many years
  - fond of lotus flower
  - found in large numbers in Africa and South Asia
  - generally quiet animals but their trumpeting can be heard many kilometers away
  - grayish to brown in colour, and their body hair is sparse and coarse
* are gregarious and keenly sensitive to one another's calls and movements
  - social creatures
* are herbivores , and eat grass, foliage, fruit, branches, and twigs
  - eating grasses, shrubs, flowers, fruits, and bark
* are herbivores, and are primarily browsers rather than grazers
  - or plant-eaters
  - which means they feed on plants
  - herbivorous, eating roots, grasses, leaves, fruit, and bark
  - herd animals with a dominant female
* are highly intelligent creatures with very large and complexly organized brains
* are highly social animals living in large family groups
  - heard animals
  - huge, fascinating creatures
  - important in Asian folklore and religion
* are intelligent, and emotional animals
  - highly gregarious, and protective toward one another
* are known as pachyderms along with hippos and rhinos
  - for their majestic size and resilience, but also for their long lives
* are known to be right or left tusked
  - form very strong emotional bonds
  - mourn for days near the body of one of their herd when it dies
  - tear down trees and feed on their leaves , making trees even more scarce
* are large animals because they a. have bigger cells
  - organizations that have major operations in a country
  - larger and more dangerous than rhinos
  - mammals, so they reproduce via sexual reproduction
  - massive creatures
  - matriarchal
  - natural candidates for music-making
  - normally mixed feeders as they feed on many different plants
* are one of the best-known animals in the world
  - largest living land mammals
  - only about the size of mice but they breathe very heavily
  - pachyderms, which means thick-skinned
  - pack animals
  - part of the growing bush meat trade
  - passive creatures
  - peaceful herbivores when they're left alone
  - pink
  - placental mammals
  - powerful symbols in their culture
  - pregnant for two years
  - pretty much hairless except for scattered long, stiff hairs and a long tail tuft
  - primarily dry land creatures
  - prone to painful lameness from osteomyelitis because of their tremendous weight
  - quite dangerous during the mating season, and rhinoceros have little fear of anything
  - rare
  - related to sea cows , which are large aquatic mammals
  - scared of a mouse
  - shot for their tusks, which are used to make ivory jewelry and trinkets
  - social animals with strong family ties
* are some of the largest creatures in the world
  - most intelligent animals on Earth
  - still in abundance along with large herbs of kudu and many birds of prey
  - strictly vegetarians
  - strong, social, and intelligent
  - such heavy animals that they can easily sustain serious fractures if they fall
* are the biggest and strongest animals that live on land, but they are very gentle
  - center of the conservation dispute in Kenya
  - country's national symbol
  - keystone species that maintain the entire savanna ecosystem
  - largest animals on land
* are the largest land animals alive today
  - on earth
  - mammal yet their closest living cousin is the diminutive rock hyrax
* are the largest land mammals in the world
  - land-dwelling animals
* are the largest living land animals
* are the largest of all land animals in the world
  - landroving animals
  - terrestrial mammals
  - only animal that have a trunk for a nose
  - problem animal of the continent
  - very symbol of Thailand
  - totally herbivorous, eating grasses, leaves, and the bark of trees
* are usually among the top attractions at zoos
  - docile creatures and kept in line by the dominant adult bull elephant
  - vegetarians, feeding on grass, foilage, fruit, branches and twigs
* are very gentle in nature, and they have a strong devotion to family
  - inquisitive creatures
  - intelligent and highly social animals
  - massive, since they contain a lot of stuff
  - sensitive and have a strong sense of smell
* are very social, frequently touching and caressing one another and entwining their trunks
  - strong, caring animals
  - tactile in nature
  - vital to the web of life in Africa
  - wild animals
  - wrinkly, bears are fuzzy and alligators are bumpy through the eyes of children
* attain maturity.
* attract tourists.
* begin getting their tusks at around six months of age
  - mating at the age of twenty
* believe in blowing their own trumpet.
* belong in the wild, or at least in the forests.
* block traffic and are occasionally hit by cars.
* boast the largest nose in the world, which is actually part nose and part upper lip.
* breathe through two nostrils at the end of their trunk, which is an extension of the nose
* breed at any time of the year, but most matings and births occur during rainy seasons.
* can adapt to many different habitats.
* can also lose heat through their behavior
  - move very fast
  - use their ears like a fan
  - and do coordinate their activities over incredible distances
* can be pregnant for as long as two years
  - quite destructive when they want to be
  - unpredictable, especially if faced with the unfamiliar
  - breathe through their trunks
* can cause great damage to crops, and they occasionally kill people
  - plantations
  - collect water from the bottom of a deep well just like village women do
  - convert a dense woodland into an open grassland in a short period of time
* can detect normal odors, but also other elephants' hormones, at great distances
  - scents from long distances, up to several kilometres
  - dissipate heat from their large, thin ears
* can have a negative impact on ecosystems
  - hear low notes Elephants can hear frequencies much lower than the range of humans
  - paint
  - produce infrasound
  - represent the efforts of human beings, or they can represent the animal itself
  - sort their friends from strangers by identifying so-called contact calls
  - suck up water both to drink and to spray on their bodies
  - suffer from cardiovascular problems as well as arthritis
  - support other elephants as overlaps
  - sustain injuries related to giving rides, or going on treks, with tourists
  - swim under water because they use their trunks as a snorkel
  - t jump
* can walk in areas where machines are unable to navigate
  - or swim with their heads under water and breathe through their trunks
  - wash themselves with their trumps just like humans do with their hands
* caress each other with their trunks.
  - huge logs from the jungle
  - load
  - massive load
* cause the most destruction in the communal lands, but they also generate the most revenue.
* change their dietary requirements with the change in season.
* chew with a fore and aft motion of the jaw, grinding the food across the lophs.
* commonly feed in the morning, evening, and at night and rest during the middle of the day.
* communicate in frequencies below human perception.
* communicate with each other and enjoy being together
  - by using a language
* consume amounts.
* continuously grow throughout their lifetime.
* copulate many times over a few days.
* crush people.
* cry, play, and laugh.
* depend on one another for food
* destroy trees, and in the process change habitats and even landscapes for other species.
* detect the low vibrations through their ears, feet, and trunk tip.
* devour enormous amounts of vegetation and clear space for a diversity of species.
* dig for minerals and create mud wallows that can eventually become large permanent holes
  - salt using their sharp tusks
* directly influence forest composition and density, and can alter the broader landscape.
* do distribute marula seeds in their dung, however.
* drink by sucking up water with the trunk and then squirting it into the mouth
* eat a lot of food because their body is so large
  - very abrasive diet, and the teeth wear strongly as they move forward
  - wide variety of bushes shrubs and trees
  - all kinds of vegetation, including peanuts
  - grass, bark, roots and fruit from trees
  - grasses, roots, fruit and bark
  - leaves and hay
  - leaves, grass, twigs and small branches
  - live vegetation
  - practically any vegetable matter
  - quite a lot because of their heavy body
* eat roots, grasses, leaves, bark, bananas and sugar cane
  - small trees, such as acacia , that grow on the savanna
  - the tree bark
  - solitary play as well as in group play
* even bury their dead with twigs and leaves.
* everywhere take on the color of the soil in their habitat.
* exist in one of the most complex societal units of any land mammal.
* face hard times as food gets shorter, and many of the very young and old are dying.
  - the giant sedges and hippo wallow in the pools
  - only on vegetation as they are herbivorous
* find it difficult to change directions due to their bulky size.
* first go to a tree and then eat the leaves on the tree.
* form deep family bonds and live in tight social units
  - matriarchal tribal societies and exhibit complex behavior
* frequently die prematurely in zoos.
* get six sets of teeth over their lifetime.
  - one calf every four to nine years on average
* go through six sets of teeth in a lifetime
  - tall reeds
* greet each other elephants with their trunks.
* grieve at a loss of a stillborn baby, a family member, and in many cases other elephants
  - the death of a family member or friend
* has-part backs
  - hearts
* have a few rituals in regards to death and dying
  - fission-fusion society in which multiple family groups come together to socialise
  - hard time adapting
  - highly developed system of communication through sounds
  - large social structure
  - long trunk
  - non-ruminant digestive system similar to horses
  - taste for alcohol
  - trunk which is like a human hand
  - trunk, two tusks, two eyes, two ears and two lumps on their head
  - unique organ, the temporal gland, located in both sides of the head
  - very long childhood
  - access to vertical pipes on walls
  - an appalling breeding record in captivity
* have big ears for the same reason
  - that are used for more than just hearing
  - feet to distribute the weight
  - canine teeth
  - dozens more copies of a gene that block tumors than humans do
  - excellent hearing and a fantastic sense of smell, but relatively poor eyesight
  - five toes on the fore feet and four on the hind feet
* have four molars, which are replaced five times, for a total of six sets in a lifetime
  - other teeth called molars
  - gigantic appetites
  - in their ears a network of veins that functions as a cooling system
  - keen smelling abilities, sensing water from several miles away
  - large ears that function as cooling devices
* have long eyelashes to help avert blowing sand, dirt, and debris from the eyes
  - longer pregnancies than almost any other mammal
  - moderate vision
  - nearly a two year gestation period
  - necessary skills
* have no joints in their legs and are the natural enemy of the dragon
  - natural predators other than man
  - permanent homes
  - word for love
  - noticable features
* have only four molars in use at a time
  - two molars in each jaw at a time
  - opposable thumbs
  - prehensile noses
* have several basic needs that can never be met in captivity
  - sharp hearing and they communicate through many different vocalizations
  - small eyes and a short neck
  - strong personalities and distinct personalities
  - such inefficient digestive systems that much food passes through undigested
* have the largest brain size verses body weight other then man
  - versus body weight other than man
* have the longest gestation of all mammals
  - pregnancy of any animal
* have tusks and modified incisors of the upper jaw
  - which have great value as ivory
* have very distinctive physical characteristics
  - thick, wrinkled, gray-brown skin that is almost hairless
  - very, very big hearts and they are highly emotional animals
* help in destroying trees and make room for grassland to develop.
* hold their entire weight on their toes.
* impact the environment in numerous ways.
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - bridges
  - cell membranes
  - chest cavities
  - corpi
  - cuticles
  - cytoplasm
  - dermis
  - epidermises
  - faces
  - freckles
  - liver spots
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - pulp cavities
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skin cells
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - tooth roots
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
  - wrinkles
* increase in size.
* inhale mostly through the trunk, although some air goes through the mouth.
* keep cool by snuffing up trunks full of water and spraying themselves
  - using their huge ears like radiators in automobiles
* kill people on a constant basis.
* learn by emulation, a sign of high mental capacity.
* lie down when they are asleep.
* lift jaws
* like to bathe often
  - eat grass, fruit and small branches
  - work on film sets because they love to be around people
  - Asia and Africa
  - India and in Africa
* live in a group with the oldest and wisest female as the primary authority
  - variety of habitats from open savannas to dense forests
  - very structured social order
  - both the grasslands and the forests of Africa and Asia
  - families
  - herds and are very protective of one another, forming close familial bonds
  - loving family units
  - small groups called clans
  - the hot climates of Africa and Asia
  - tightly bonded family groups in which the members are in close physical contact
  - longer in the wild
  - prairies
  - or are butchered for their tusks
  - there too
* living alone sometimes become dangerous and are then called rouges.
  - terrains
  - to paint because they get to do a fun activity with their mahouts
* maintain a strict social structure and adhere to formal life cycles.
* make a sound, known as a trumpet, to signal excitement, aggression and distress
  - home in a variety of habitats including tropical and subtropical zones
  - low-frequency calls, many of which, though loud, are too low for humans to hear
  - regular contact with one another using their trunks
  - up the largest proportion of the biomass
* mature basically at the same rate as humans.
  - up into the hills when the water holes are dry
* need food
  - mineral salt
  - protection
  - to drink water
* never stop growing, although the rate of growth slows down in later years.
* occasionally reverse out of a mass crate.
* often communicate with their trunks
  - cool off in a pond or stream
  - effect human behavior through gesture and vocals
  - pass by sets of elephant bones, for example, but occasionally they stop
  - travel large distances in search of food
  - wallows in the mud at day light and afternoon when it searches for food
* open mouths.
* pheromones Even large animals can make use of pheromones.
* plant new forests when they disperse plant seeds in their dung.
* play a very important role in Indian society
  - vital role in the ecosystems they inhabit
  - an important role in the ecosystem they inhabit
  - custom-made instruments at a conservation center in northern Thailand
* possess a highly developed olfactory system
  - great strength and are intelligent and, when well treated, docile
  - very little hair and have the nose and upper lip prolonged into a proboscis
* prefer clean, cool water for drinking
* produce a huge amount of dung every day.
* provide a vital role in the ecosystem they inhabit.
* purr like cats do, as a means of communication.
* push over trees as well.
  - stages
* react to environmental conditions and decrease mating when overpopulated.
* rear on their hind limbs occasionally in the wild.
* receive food.
* remember and mourn loved ones, even many years after their death.
* replace their teeth four to six times in their lifetime
  - training the same way children require schooling
* rise two inches when they inhale.
* roam countries
  - surfaces
* seals around southern Vancouver Island.
* seem psychic only because they live in a world slightly askew from our own
  - to be eating quite a bit of bark from the various acacia trees
* seem to display grief at the death of a family member
  - death ofa family member
* serve as the forefront to a changing landscape.
* share ancestors
  - pasture
* show a high level of interest in the urine of other animals
  - affection by entwining their trunks
  - an ability to manufacture and use tools with their trunk and feet
  - intake
* slap and wrestle each other with their trunks.
* sleep about approximately four hours a night
  - standing up
* sometimes make marks in the dirt while standing in groups and vocalizing
  - push trees over in search of food and can modify habitat over large areas
  - take a nap during the hottest part of the day
* spend most of their time feeding, mainly on gras, twigs and roots.
* spend much of the time eating grass and drinking water
  - their waking hours looking for food and eating
* splash in the shallows.
* still roam free in Vietnam today.
* suck up water into their trunks and shoot it into their mouths
  - parasites, marginal nutrition, and wounds
* supplement the sodium in their food by visiting mineral licks.
* swallow food and liquids through their mouths
* take in the same way as they move without taking
  - mud baths to get rid of itchy bugs
* tend to group in herds
  - rest and nap during the hottest hours of the day
  - travel in family groups made up of mostly related females
* thrive on good food, exercise, mental stimulation, and the chance to socialize.
* throw sand on their backs and on their head to keep from getting sunburned.
* tolerate cold better than heat because of their low surface area to body mass ratio.
* travel widely in search of food.
* tusks never stop growing so some old bulls display enormous examples.
  - low frequency seismic and vocal sounds to do so
  - mud as both a sunscreen and a moisturizer
  - the trunk as a shower with various pressure settings
* use their ears as a cooling system
  - for hearing, communication, and cooling
  - large ears to cool themselves when it is very hot
  - long trunks to eat and drink
  - trunk much like humans use their hands
* use their trunks to spray mud and dust on their backs
  - take up water and squirt it into their mouths
* use their tusks for a variety of tasks
  - digging, fighting, communication and display
* use their tusks to dig for food, as well as weapons when fighting
  - water, to protect themselves and to strip bark off of trees
  - tear bark off trees and to dig up roots and shrubs
  - water in many ways
* usually die if their trunk is seriously injured
  - rest during the hot hours of the day
* visit water daily to drink and bathe.
  - the tips of their toes
  - their toes, although they appear to be flat-footed
  - with slow, pondering, pounding steps, up and down hills on narrow paths
* wallow in mud.
* wander widely in search of food.
* want water.
* wave their ears to cool themselves down.
* weep profusely when wounded or when they see that escape from their enemies is impossible.
* work and elephants play.
+ African elephant, Teeth
  * As they wear away at the front, new molars emerge in the back of the mouth and gradually replace the old ones. Elephants replace their teeth  six times. If it survives to 60 years of age the elephant no longer has teeth  and will die of starvation.
  * Ears are also used in other ways. Elephants use their large ears to cool themselves when it is very hot.
+ Elephant, Physical description, Teeth: Animals used for transport
  * Elephants also have tusks. Tusks are large  teeth coming out of their upper jaws
  * April 15, 2008. Elephants are related to sea cows, which are large aquatic mammals.
  * Tusks are made of ivory. Ivory is very rare and expensive. Many elephants are killed for their tusks
+ Grassland, Plants and animals: Agriculture
  * There are a few trees in the grassland because of the low rainfall. Thorny trees called acacias are one of a handful of trees that are able to grow here. Wildfires are common and prevent trees from growing. The animals also prevent trees from growing as they eat the tender sprouts before they can develop into grown trees. Elephants are known to tear down trees and feed on their leaves, making trees even more scarce.