“Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise” ( Proverbs 19:20). We also need to do it! Be wise-have ears that hear and do God's Word! But it isn’t enough to just listen to God’s Word. When the Bible says something, we need to listen up because God’s words to us are found in the Bible. My huge ears should remind you to “be all ears!” We need to listen to God’s Word and wise counsel. Most people know that elephants trumpet, but did you know that we also “purr” (make really low-pitched rumbles) when we’re happy to see each other?Ĭlass: Mammalia (mammal) Order: Proboscidea Family: Elephantidea Genus/Species: Loxodonta africana (African Elephant) Size: 15 feet (4 m) high and 24.8 feet (7.5 m) long Weight: 6.6 tons (6,000 kg) Diet: Leaves, fruit, branches, bark, and grass Habitat: African elephants live in savannahs, rainforests, and even deserts throughout sub-Saharan, central and West Africa.And just like people are right- and left-handed, we are left- or right-tusked! I use my tusks for digging and ripping bark.My trunk can have up to 40,000 muscles in it! The human body only has about 640 in the whole body!.We also love to splash around in the water to cool off.
Tembo the elephant skin#
Our skin is pretty sensitive, so we will roll around in the dust to keep bugs and the hot sun off our skin. My ears are filled with blood vessels, which helps to cool me off. We are the largest living land animals. Here are some cool facts about African elephants: God created the elephant kind with so much variety that, for a time, there were elephants living in both really hot and really cold climates-and in between! Elephants, like me, should remind you of the incredible creativity of our Creator. Like us, they also only have a little bit of hair on their head and tail, but they have smoother skin and tusks that are 4–5 feet long. Asian elephants are smaller than us African elephants, and they have much smaller ears than us, but still bigger than mastodon or mammoth ears. 1 The two members of the elephant kind that are still living today are African elephants and Asian elephants.Īfrican elephants, like me, are wrinkly with only a little bit of hair on our heads and tails, huge ears, and five 8-foot-long tusks. Some researchers view the Deinotheriidae as a possible fourth elephant kind, while others consider them to be an extinct rhinoceros kind. The extinct Gomphotheres were elephant kinds who had a long shovel-like lower jaw. The woolly mammoth, also extinct today, had long hair, a woolly undercoat, smaller ears than elephants living today, and 13-foot-long tusks that curved inward. American mastodons, extinct today, were part of the elephant kind and had long hair, six 8-foot-long tusks, and smaller ears than elephants today. 
In the elephant kind there are three (or possibly four) extinct members, and two living members.
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