Elephant Coloring Pages
Welcome to my Elephant coloring pages section.
An elephant's trunk is its nose and upper lip rolled into one. There isn't a single bone inside it, just tens of thousands of muscles, so it's strong enough to pull a branch off a tree and gentle enough to pick up one peanut. Elephants use their trunks to drink, sniff out food, toss dust over their backs and even give each other a trunk "hug" when they say hello.
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Preschool and Cartoon Elephant Coloring Pages
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Realistic Elephant Coloring Pages
Elephants live in Africa and Asia, and the easiest way to tell them apart is their ears. African elephants have enormous ears shaped a little like a map of Africa, and they flap them to cool off on hot days. Asian elephants have smaller rounded ears and a head with two bumps on top. Most Asian females don't have tusks you can see at all.
Elephant Coloring Pages for Adults
In parts of India, elephants get dressed up for festivals. Their faces and trunks are painted with bright patterns, and they wear embroidered blankets and jingling ornaments as they parade through the streets.
Elephant Connect the Dots
About Elephants
Elephants are the biggest animals living on land today. A big African elephant can weigh as much as four cars, and it spends most of the day eating. It takes a mountain of grass, leaves, bark and fruit to keep a body that size going!
Elephants live in close families led by the oldest female, called the matriarch. She remembers where to find water when the weather turns dry, and everyone follows her lead. When a baby is born, its sisters, aunts and cousins all help look after it. A new calf doesn't really know what to do with its trunk yet, so it flops it around and sometimes sucks on it the way a toddler sucks a thumb.
Elephants are big helpers for the animals around them too. In dry riverbeds they dig for water with their feet and tusks, and the holes they leave become drinking spots for other animals. Seeds from the fruit they eat get dropped in their dung far from where they started, so elephants plant new trees wherever they wander.
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