The elephant is the largest animal living today and the strongest too. It has thick legs, huge sides and back, large hanging ears, small tail, little eyes, long white tusks and above all long nose called the trunk. The trunk is the elephant's peculiar feature, and it puts it to various uses.
It draws up water by it and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath; picks leaves from the trees and puts them into mouth. Elephants look very clumsy and heavy.
Elephants are found in India and Africa. The African elephant differs in some respects from the Indian; it is larger, stronger, with longer tusks and bigger ears.
The elephant is a very intelligent animal and its intelligence and strength makes it a very useful servant to man. In olden days, elephants were used in battles and armies had their regiments of trained fighter elephants.
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