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Informationen zum Autor Sarah L. Thomson (she/her) has written over thirty books for young readers, including poetry, prose, fiction and nonfiction. Her recent books include Cub's Big World , which School Library Journal called “a big must-have" and Deadly Flowers: A Ninja's Tale, which Booklist c alled “genuinely thrilling." She lives in Portland, Maine. You can visit her online at sarahlthomson.com. Chelsea Clinton (she/her) is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of She Persisted, She Persisted Around the World, She Persisted in Sports, She Persisted in Science , Don't Let Them Disappear, It's Your World and Start Now!, as well as Grandma's Gardens and The Book of Gutsy Women, which she wrote with Hillary Clinton, and Governing Global Health with Devi Sridhar. Chelsea earned a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where she is now an adjunct assistant professor, and a PhD in international relations from Oxford University. She is also the Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, where she works on many initiatives, including those that help empower the next generation of leaders. She lives in New York City with her husband, Marc, their three children and their dog, Soren. Klappentext "Did you know that elephants can't jump? How about that no two elephants have ears that are exactly alike? Or that elephants all walk on tiptoe? Perfect for all animal lovers--and elephant fans in particular--this book is filled with information that young readers will love to learn. From where elephant habitats are found to what it's like to be an elephant to why elephants are endangered and who has been working hard to save them, this book gives readers all the facts they know to become elephant experts"-- Leseprobe 1 Jungles, Grasslands, and Temples: Where Elephants Live An elephant isn’t hard to spot. It’s the biggest animal that lives on land. If you’re going to look for one, you’d better head to the grasslands or forests of Africa or to the jungles of Southeast Asia.You’ll find a different kind, or species, of elephant in each place. Elephants in Africa Once there were elephants in all of Africa south of the Sahara. Today elephants live in only thirty-seven of Africa’s fifty-four countries, as far north as Mali and as far south as the nation of South Africa. Elephant habitats, or the places they can safely live, have shrunk in half over the last forty years. You can tell an African elephant by its flapping ears—they are shaped a little like the continent of Africa itself. And if you get close enough to peer at its trunk, you’ll see that the African elephant has two flexible parts on the end. It can use these just like you use a finger and a thumb—to pick up something small. African savanna elephants are the biggest elephants around. They’re also called bush elephants, and they can be ten or even thirteen feet tall at the shoulder, and their heads are higher still! The biggest ones weigh around seven tons. That’s about as much as three pickup trucks. African forest elephants are a little smaller. They weigh about five and a half tons, a little more than two pickup trucks. Being about the same weight as a Tyrannosaurus rex has some advantages for an animal like an elephant. There aren’t many predators who want to tackle a seven-ton animal. At a water hole or a lake, other animals make way. If the elephant spots some leaves at the very top of a tree that would be out of reach for most? No problem—it can stretch its trunk and snatch those leaves up. But there is one problem with being so big. Elephants need to eat a lot , around 300 pounds of food a day. (If you had an elephant’s appetite, you could eat about 330 apples for breakfast, 400 hot dogs f...
