Archive for February, 2008

THE ELEPHANT

February 10, 2008

The largest animal on land is the elephant.It is about 9 seet tall and it is about 100 ton in weight. It legs are like mortars. It is ears are like the winnoving Fon. It is nose is elongated. It is called a trunk. It is very useful. It is served like a hand. It helps it to carry logs; break branches and eat them; take water and flash on it is body. It is eyes are very small in comparisen with the other parts sop. It is body some elephants have tusks.they are called tuskers. We can take the ivory from them.              

                                                     There are tamed elephants and the wild elephants. The wild elephants are living in the jungle. They eat leaves. They live in herds. The wild elephants are very dangerous. Some times they come to village and destroy the houses and crops. Elephants are very fond of their young ones. The protect them from insets Appling the clay on their bodies. The tamed elephants are very useful. They do much work we know the elephants carry the tooth relic in the procession. The man who looks after the elephants is called a mahout.

                        Now the elephant are extricating. Because the people are killing them to get their tusks. So it is forbidden to kill elephant.

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