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An African elephant

The African elephants are found in Africa . They live in many habitats including the scrub and semi-deserts areas of Africa . However , they are mostly found in Savannah . The African elephant is the largest land animal and brownish in color . Among elephants the African elephant is the biggest . It weighs anywhere from 4000kg to 5400 kg in adulthood (National Geographic . It has big ears which can be as big as 6 .5 x 5 ft in size . The elephant use their ears to radiate heat keeping them cool in the hot

sun . They can often be seen flapping their ears as they walk

The African elephant has six sets of teeth which it uses to chew leaves barks , fruits and grass . These form its usual diet . It has a sloping forehead and two of what is called the fingers ' at the tip of its trunk . The trunk is their nose with about 100 ,000 singular muscles which they also use sucking water , grabbing things and trumpeting (National Geographic . The elephants can be heard to make many vocal sounds . These include bellows , grunts , whistles and purrs

The elephants love being in water . They get water over themselves by sucking it with their trunks and spraying it over their bodies . To avoid the burn of the sun and to keep parasites away , they often spray dust on their bodies when wet or even when dry (National Geographic . Elephant tusks protrude from the sides of the trunk as two while long...