Author: Rebecca E. Hirsch

Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2015

Pages: 32

Description: African elephants stomp across the savannahs and forests of Africa. These huge animals eat hundreds of pounds of plants each day. The dig for water with their tusks. They greet one another with noises from their trunks.

The African elephant is a type of mammal. All mammals have backbones and fur or hair. The make milk to feed their babies, and most give birth to live young. But mammals have many differences too. Find out what else an African elephant has I common with a wildebeest. Learn what set and African elephant apart from a snow leopard. Check out the comparison charts and use your compare-and-contrast skills to explore mammal traits!