10 Lines on Elephant for Students and Children in English

10 Lines on Elephant: Elephants are one of the most loved and popular animals around the world. But given the nature of the rapid extinction of the species, it becomes important for everyone, not just school children and students, to get to know about elephants and their importance in maintaining a stable environment and providing stability to our food chain.

In this particular article on 10 lines on elephants in English, we are going to provide information right from fundamentals to lesser-known facts about elephants that will be useful for students in their school assignments, project works, examinations, tests, homework and class works.

We have divided the entire article on 10 lines on elephants in English into three sets with different content and difficulty level starting from set 1 to set The nature of the information given is such a way that everybody can understand and learn more about elephants.

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10 Lines on Elephant for Students and Kids in English

You can find below the first set of 10 lines on elephants in English. Set 1 is a relatively simpler set that can be used by school students from class 1 to class 6 for their assignments, homework, tests and exams.

Set 1 – 10 Lines on Elephant for Kids

Set 1 is helpful to the students of classes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and Kids

1. Elephants are the largest land animals on Earth.
2. Elephants are mostly found in African and Asian forests
3. We can tell the difference between the various species among elephants by the size of their ears.
4. Elephants are herbivores animals which means that they don’t consume meat unlike other wild animals in
   the forest.
5. Elephants can communicate with each other through ground vibrations coming from their footsteps.
6. The different types of elephant species that are recognised so far are the Asian elephant, the African Bush Elephant and the African forest elephant.
7. Elephants are characterized by their large body, long trunks and huge tusk along with big ears.
8. Elephants defend themselves from any enemies and threats using their tusks and trunk.
9. Elephants, in spite of their huge body, can run very fast in a straight line.
10. Elephants are very much important to keep the stability in our food chain and to maintain our ecosystem.

Set 2 – 10 Lines on Elephant for School Children

Set 2 is helpful to students of classes 6, 7 and 8.

1. Elephants are categorised as mammals because they feed their young ones milk secreted from mammary glands. Also, elephants are also the largest mammals inland.
2. Although elephants are considered herbivorous in nature, they do consume pests and insects on plants and trees and hence they are capable of digesting meat.
3. Apart from apes such as gorillas and monkeys, elephants are some of the most intelligent land animals known to human beings.
4. Elephant groups are usually female-led and they can be very aggressive in nature when threatened and hence it is best advised that human interaction should be least with these animals and they should be left alone in their ecosystem.
5. The threat to elephants is mainly because of rapid urbanization and industrialization in many parts of the world where we are encroaching their land and leaving them with no habitat to live and grow.
6. Elephants are hunted and poached for their tusks, skin and trunk that has medicinal and cosmetic values
7. Countries across the world should come together to protect these animals and formulate stringent laws and policies to reduce the extinction of elephants due to hunting and poaching.
8. An average African elephant is as tall as 3.2 metres and weighs approximately 6,000 kg.
9. We can distinguish elephant species by recognising the length of their trunk and the size of their ears. Also, elephants are distinguished based on their habitats and eating habits.
10. Baby elephants, which are known as calves, weigh around 100kgs to 120 kgs when they are born.

Set 3 – 10 Lines on Elephant for High School Students

Set 3 is helpful to students of classes 9, 10, 11, 12 and for Competitive Exams.

1. The gestation period for elephants is approximately 22 to 23 months, the longest gestation period for any mammal known to humans, and the baby elephant that is born with a weight of around 100kg to 120 kg.
2. The average lifespan of an elephant varies between 50 to 70 years depending on the species of elephant whether it is Asian elephant or African Bush elephant.
3. As mentioned before, elephants can run at a higher pace with a speed of almost 20 to 25 kilometre per hour in times of distress but elephants usually walk at a speed of around 4 km per hour.
4. Elephants, being Herbivorous animals, have 6 sets of molar teeth that they use to chew and digest various plants and tree chunks on an everyday basis.
5. Many elephants die of natural causes mostly caused by decay and falling of their tooth which will eventually lead them to starvation since they can’t consume food without their teeth.
6. Increase in pollution, causing an an increase in the average temperature of the earth, rapid urbanization and deforestation are some of the concerns causing the rapid extinction of many animals including elephants across the world.
7. The extinction of animals, especially in the Western Ghats in the southern part of India, is a matter of concern and the Indian government has to put a hold on the rapid encroachment of forest land and deforestation in the region.
8. The Wildlife Protection Act 1972, which was amended and strengthened in the year 2002 in India has not been effective in protecting elephants from hunting, poaching and selling.
9. We as a society have to wake up to the harsh truth of the disturbing food cycle and come up with sustainable policies for both business and social life so that we leave a better world for our next generation.
10. Elephant forms the most important part of our food chain and if elephants get extinct at the same rate as it is happening today, scientists predict that there will be massive disturbances in the flora which ultimately affects us human beings in the next few decades.

FAQ’s on 10 Lines on Elephant

Question 1.
How many types of elephants are known to us?

Answer:
There are mainly three types of elephants, which are Asian elephant, African Bush elephant and African forest elephant categorised by their external morphology, habitat and living conditions.

Question 2.
How many elephants are left in the world?

Answer:
There are approximately 4.5 lacs of elephants left in the entire world.

Question 3.
In which region of India are elephants found in large numbers?

Answer:
Elephants are found in large numbers in the largest elephant reserve in India, Bandipur National Park (Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve) oh the western ghats of southern India, in the state of Karnataka.

Question 4.
Which country has the largest number of elephants?

Answer:
Botswana, in Africa, is the country that has the largest number of elephants in the world.

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