Elephant Speech

by Keisha Osborne
Good afternoon (or morning) ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. I am going to talk to you about elephants. Elephants are the biggest animal living on land, and let me tell you they are huge.

Usually an elephant would flap it's large ears to cool itself down if it is too hot. Did you know elephants grow six sets of teeth in a lifetime? Their teeth are very strong for eating roots of trees and branches.

An elephant's trunk is like human hands. The elephant's trunk can do heaps of things like suck water up their nose and rub bark off trees. One amazing thing an elephant can do is breath under water. Now if you are thinking that they just stand up really tall or I'm just going crazy, you're wrong. Elephants walk under the water and use their trunk or massive nose as a snorkel.

Big bull elephants fight for a cow elephant. The bull elephants twirl their trunks together and bang their tusks against each other. When one elephant gives up the other elephant wins the cow.

Elephants bathe and play in mud. The mud keeps their skin in good condition, but after they are finished with the mud they throw dusty dirt over them and rub themselves against a tree, log or termite hill.

Elephants communicate by stamping their feet on the ground or bellow in a low voice.

So I'm just about finished my speech but there is one thing I want stopped and that is poaching, it's horrible. People kill elephants and sell parts of their bodies for money or household furniture and the scary thing is they don't even get the shivers when they have an elephant's tusk or foot as an umbrella holder.

Well, I've told you everything I know about elephants. I hope you agree that they are lovely animals. Thank you for listening to my speech.