Awesome African elephants

Completion certificate

Congratulations on completing your Awesome African elephant Tool Kit For Eco Heroes. You are now an elephant expert!

You can download your FREE certificate here, or just click on the picture and off you go!

Be sure to display your certificate proudly and wow your friends with the fascinating facts that you’ve learnt.

Just remember to keep saving the elephants.

Awesome African elephant quiz

Here are the answers to the elephant quiz

1. True: The largest elephant was 3.96 metres tall and weighed 10,400kg!

2. False: their wrinkly skin helps to keep them cool by trapping moisture.

3. True: Elephants show many emotions and can even show signs of grief.

4. True: An African elephant’s ears are like giant fans and can grow to 1.5 metres long.

5. True: Elephant’s are known to use one tusk more than the other, just like we are right- or left-handed.

6. True: Asian elephant’s ears are shaped a little like the continent of Asia too!

7. True: Very few animals are known to do this.

8. False: An elephant trunk has up to 40,000 muscles.

9. False: A baby elephant can stand within 20 minutes of birth and can walk within 1 hour. 

10. True: Their tusks continue to grow throughout their lives.

Activities

Here are the answers for the activity cards

Ivory hunt

Elephant crossword

Across

3 - CALF
6 - HERD
8 - MATRIARCH
9 - IVORY
10 - KEYSTONE

Down

1 - BULL
2 - MAMMAL
4 - AFRICA
5 - HERBIVORE
7 - TRUNK

Avoid the hunters

African safari

LION - African is my home

TIGER - I live in Asia

POLAR BEAR - I live in the Arctic

BUFFALO - African is my home

ORANGUTAN - I live in Asia

BLACK RHINO - Africa is my home

LEOPARD - Africa is my home (as well as other places)

GIANT PANDA - I live in Asia

ELEPHANT - African is my home, but Asian elephants live in Asia

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