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The African Elephant has some great physical features to it. Such as the color, gray, unique for the elephant. And how much it ways. A female elephant can get up to 1,800 pounds, and a male elephant up to 2,160 pounds. The African Elephant can get up to 13.2 feet tall,10 feet wide, and eat about 200-600 pounds of food a day. This animal also has a way of adaptation to its environment, such as fighting to keep itself or its cubs safe, digging to find underground water, and a tusk to get the food to its mouth (“African Elephant.” Wikipedia). Another interesting fact of this African Elephant is its environment, the place which it lives in. This being africa. The land of which this animal lives on is dry, which is why it has a adaptation to dig

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