Zoo Animals In The Wild; Elephants (1981)

elephants. Big, heavy, noisy. There are elephants from Asia and elephants from Africa. This one's from Africa. African elephants are taller and weigh more than Asian elephants and they have much bigger ears. Elephants stay together in small groups called herds. [Music] They eat plants. Their trunks are certainly useful. And when an elephant isn't using its trunk to eat, it can use its trunk to drink. But a trunk can't do everything an elephant needs. Sometimes an elephant has to use a different kind of trunk. [Music] Elephants cover themselves with dust to protect their skin from insects. See how useful a trunk is? So out in Africa where these elephants live, they're usually pretty dusty until they get into water. An elephant drinks about 1,000 times as much water as you do. Look at those tusks. Tusks are just long teeth. Baby elephants don't have them. They grow slowly as an elephant gets older. Elephants use water for more than just drinking. Rolling around in the muddy water keeps an elephant nice and cool. [Music] [Music] And when they finish playing in the muddy water, they'll cover themselves with dust again. [Music] Elephant. [Music] [Music]