Adaptations
The African Bush Elephant has lots of physical and behavioral adaptations. This is a picture of some of them. The elephant has a thick layer of skin to protect it from the heat. Some more physical adaptations are that it has a trunk used for lifting things which is about 5 feet, tusks for digging and eating, and their big circular shaped ears(4 ft) that help cool them down. Then some of the behavioral adaptations are that the elephants use their tusks to make water holes, which then they lay in the mud to cool down/protect them from getting sunburned. The little baby elephants hold on to the mothers tail, but if there is danger they herd the calves into a bunch and then the biggest elephants make a circle around them to protect them from the predators.
The African Bush Elephants are usually in herds of about 3-20 elephants. They usually consist of females and their young, and the elephant in charge of the herd is usually the oldest female elephant. It depends on where their location is, but they mostly live in the southern part of Africa It would also depend on how many mother elephants there are in the herd, because it takes about 2 years for a mother to give birth to her baby.
This is a video of a herd of elephants that is controlled by a matriarch, which is the oldest female leader of the herd, and then it is also showing them lay in the mud which one of their adaptation.