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- EASY ELEPHANT EARS
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- DID YOU KNOW:
- -- Elephants can hear many more sounds than humans can. This might make them helpful in telling when earthquakes are coming.
- -- Elephants sleep standing up.
- -- An elephant's heart beats about 25 times a minute. A human heart beats about 70 times a minute. A canary heart beats 1,000 times a minute.
- -- The small fingerlike part at the end of the trunk lets the elephant pick up small objects, even as small as a pin.
- -- Elephants cannot jump.
- -- New teeth grow as the old ones wear out. Elephants get six sets of teeth. The final set wears down at about 60 years.
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- TAKE A LOOK AT THESE GREAT BOOKS ON PACHYDERMS:
- The Elephant and the Bad Baby
- by Elfrida Vipont; Putnam Publishing; 1986.
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- Seventeen Kings and Forty-Two Elephants
- by Margaret Mahy; Dial Books for Young Readers;1987.
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- Printed from Cool Crafts ©1994 Meredith Corporation and Multicom Publishing
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