It is bigger than a hippo. It is smaller than a whale. Its neck is shorter than a giraffe’s. Its ears are bigger than a penguin’s. It is heavier than a crocodile. It is slower than a hummingbird. It is not an insect. It is not a reptile. It is the biggest mamma on the land. It is an elephant.An elephant is often four meters tall. It can weigh four tons. An elephant usually mov -es slowly, but it can go 40 kilometers an hour when it runs fast.
     Elephant are the only animals with a long nose called a trunk. An elep- hant trunk can pick up a tree as heavy as 280 kilograms. It can pick up a peanut that is only four centimeters long.
     It is also the mammal with the biggest ears. They are half a meter long. Elephant have two tusks. They are long and white. A tusk can be as long as a person. It can weigh 100 kilograms.
     There are two kinds of elephant –African elephants and Asian elephan- ts . They are very strong, very smart and very ,very big.