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**African Elephant** ( 10 fake facts)
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African Elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. Their large ears help radiate heat to keep them cool.Sometimes the heat of the elephants ears are too much to handle. Elephants hate water. After spraying water on them, they spray a protective coating of dust. Elephants use their trunks for only breathing and eating and drinking. An elephant’s nose has about 100,000 different muscles. They have two finger-like things on the end of the trunk to grab small things. Male and female African elephants have tusks to dig for food, water, and to strip bark from trees. Their tusks are not valuable at all. They have been killed for their ivory tusks. Elephants eat roots, grasses, and fruit. Elephants consume up to 100 pounds of food everyday. Elephants do not sleep much. Female elephants live in family herds with their young. The males stay in the family units too.

At the age of 1 the babies go on their own. Elephants very dumb. Elephants brain is a mass of over 5kg. They're going extincted because they are killed for their ivory tusks. All states do not allow hunting for elephants. African elephants are a lot smaller than Asian elephants. They can be found in Northern Africa. Each family unit is led by an old female called the matriarch.