The elephant is the only animal in the world with a turnk.It uses its turn in many ways.It pulls leaves off trees with its turnk and then puts them into its mouth. It can even use its trunk when it wants to make a path through the forest.It also uses its trunk to get water.The turnk can hold a lot of water,as an elephant needs to drink more than three hundred pints of water every day.When the elephant is angry,its tusks can be very dangerous.The tusks of an elephant"s tusk.In America men have hunted elephants for their tusks.The ivory form the tusks is made into many beautiful things.
It has been easy for men to train elephants in Asia.They use elephants to carry heavy things for men to train elephants in Asia.They use elephants to carry heavy things for long distances.
Many people say that the kings of Asia used to give white elephants to people whom they did not like.These white elephants were sacred and they could not be made towork.They could not be killed or given away.A person who owned a white elephant had to pay a lot of money to keep it properly.After a certain time,he usually became very poor.Now people in England call a useless thing"a white elephant."