Planned with reference to the Key Stage 2 national curriculum, this title looks at how elephants work together to survive in their habitat. It explains how they find food, bring up their young and defend themselves against predators. It also shows how factors such as the environment and the availability of resources shape the physical and behavioural characteristics of elephants. Pages are illustrated with full colour photographs and specially commissioned artworks suitable for readers of seven and above.

 

This book is part of a book series called Animal Families .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .

Tim Harris has been fascinated by all aspects of the natural world since a young age. After studying Norwegian glaciers at university, his quest for wildlife has seen him explore the giant dunes of the Namib Desert, climb the slopes of Popocatapetl in Mexico, camp in the Sumatran rainforest, and search the frozen Sea of Okhotsk for sea-eagles. Tim has written books about nature and the environment for both children and adults, including the award-winning Migration Hotspots: the World's Best Bird Migration Sites. Apart from birds, his special interests are bats, moths, glaciers, and the weather.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Introduction
• 2: Elephant groups
• 3: Getting the message across
• 4: Finding a meal
• 5: The mating game
• 6: Babies and youngsters
• 7: Male elephants
• 8: Female elephants
• 9: Elephants and death
• 10: Shape and size
• 11: Where did elephants come from?
• 12: Elephant habitats
• 13: Elephants and people
• 14: Glossary
• 15: Further reading
• 16: Index