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elephants
• Elephants know how to use sticks as tools. They use sticks to scratch their backs, swat at flies, and defend themselves. • Elephants have a great memory. They can remember where they found water a long time ago. They recognize other elephants, and even people, a long time after they last saw them. • Elephants use their trunks, For more fun crafts, ears, and feet to communicate. activities & information They can make lots of sounds, about elephants and other animals, visit: ifaw.org/ from really loud trumpeting discoveranimals noises, to very low rumbling sounds that a person couldn’t even hear. Other elephants can hear them though, even when they are miles away. • When an elephant looks into a mirror, it knows that it is looking at itself. Most animals can’t do that.
Word Search Can you find the 14 words and phrases in the list below?
WRINKLES TRUNK MEMORY WATER HOLE SAVANNAH TUSKS CALF AFRICA IVORY HERDS FOREST TRUMPET BIG EARS ASIA
Elephants don’t eat meat - only leaves, twigs and grass.
I V O R Y A C I K T D S T B C S A K E S A A S I A M L G N D E V U G F E F N M T W A T E R H O L E R H N R A I E R T M U I N U R C R E U O M L A N S A D S S R P L H K F W S T K Y E W R I N K L E S I T
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“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one hundred per cent.” - Dr. Seuss
Find the Matching Elephants Two of the elephants in each row are the same. Can you find them?
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. Sobol
An elephant doesn’t drink water through its trunk. It sucks up water with its trunk and then sprays the water into its mouth.
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Write an Elephant Haiku Haiku is a form of poetry that comes from Japan. The poems have three lines. The first and third lines each contain five syllables, or beats. The second line contains seven beats.
Your great gray ears flap, keeping you cool in the heat of long sunny days. © IFAW/D. W
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The trunk’s two fingers reach for a leaf way up high, so tasty and sweet. Now write your own haiku. Then draw a picture to go with it.
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___________________________________________________ (5 beats) World Headquarters, 290 Summer Street, Yarmouth Port, MA 02675 • Phone: (+1) 800 932 4329 • E-mail: [email protected]
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elephants
• Elephants know how to use sticks as tools. They use sticks to scratch their backs, swat at flies, and defend themselves. • Elephants have a great memory. They can remember where they found water a long time ago. They recognize other elephants, and even people, a long time after they last saw them. • Elephants use their trunks, For more fun crafts, ears, and feet to communicate. activities & information They can make lots of sounds, about elephants and other animals, visit: ifaw.org/ from really loud trumpeting discoveranimals noises, to very low rumbling sounds that a person couldn’t even hear. Other elephants can hear them though, even when they are miles away. • When an elephant looks into a mirror, it knows that it is looking at itself. Most animals can’t do that.
Word Search Can you find the 14 words and phrases in the list below?
WRINKLES TRUNK MEMORY WATER HOLE SAVANNAH TUSKS CALF AFRICA IVORY HERDS FOREST TRUMPET BIG EARS ASIA
Elephants don’t eat meat - only leaves, twigs and grass.
I V O R Y A C I K T D S T B C S A K E S A A S I A M L G N D E V U G F E F N M T W A T E R H O L E R H N R A I E R T M U I N U R C R E U O M L A N S A D S S R P L H K F W S T K Y E W R I N K L E S I T
© iStockphoto/ Sigal Suhler Moran
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one hundred per cent.” - Dr. Seuss
Find the Matching Elephants Two of the elephants in each row are the same. Can you find them?
© IFAW/R
. Sobol
An elephant doesn’t drink water through its trunk. It sucks up water with its trunk and then sprays the water into its mouth.
3
Write an Elephant Haiku Haiku is a form of poetry that comes from Japan. The poems have three lines. The first and third lines each contain five syllables, or beats. The second line contains seven beats.
Your great gray ears flap, keeping you cool in the heat of long sunny days. © IFAW/D. W
illetts
mes
© IFAW/J. Cu
The trunk’s two fingers reach for a leaf way up high, so tasty and sweet. Now write your own haiku. Then draw a picture to go with it.
___________________________________________________ (5 beats)
___________________________________________________ (7 beats)
___________________________________________________ (5 beats) World Headquarters, 290 Summer Street, Yarmouth Port, MA 02675 • Phone: (+1) 800 932 4329 • E-mail: [email protected]
