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SCHLEICH World of Nature Wild Life: African Elephant Calf
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Schleich replica hand-painted models feature incredibly detailed and true-to-life designs. Developed with the assistance of parents, teachers and children the Schleich ranges are especially designed for children's hands. Let your imagination come alive with Schleich.
LEARN ABOUT ELEPHANTS:
A long trunk, tough tusks and big ears are bold features of this lowly leaf-eater.
African elephants are the largest of the elephant species, making them the largest land animal. They have four toes on the forefeet and five toes on the hind feet. African elephants live in large clans that splinter off into smaller families. The oldest and largest female is the matriarch who leads the others in the endless search for food and water. Elephants spend as much as sixteen hours a day searching for enough grasses, tree limbs, fruits, and vines. Elephants have a tough but flexible layer of grayish skin, long trunks, and twin ivory tusks. They use their remarkably flexible trunks to communicate with each other through touch and smell. Baby elephants nurse for up to five years. Females stay with their mothers until they're ready to have calves and start their own families. Bull calves stay with their mothers for up to twelve years, but then they break away to live with other males in 'bachelor' herds.
FUN FACTS: Elephants can consume over five hundred pounds of food per day.
* Zoological Name: Loxodonta africana
* Conservation Status: Near Threatened
* Primary Habitat: Grassland
* Global Home: Africa
Ages: 19 months & up
Item Size: approx. 5 x 7 x 3 cm
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excellent products
by Sofie on Saturday 26 November, 2011
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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Great quality , treaistic looking animals. good size and worth spending that little extra to collect a great long lasting range of zoo or farm animals. Our little girl loves animals and I would rahter buy quality pieces and intervals to add to a collection than a cheaper big pack of lots of animals where durability, paints & plastics perhaps not as good or safe.
always exciting adding a new piece to a collection and reignites her desire to play with them all. Good stocking fillers!
