Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
The elephant is the largest of all living animals and the strongest. It is a strange- looking animal, with its thick legs, huge sides and back, large hanging ears, small tail, little eyes, long white tusks, and above all, its long nose, called the trunk. The trunk is the elephant’s unique feature, and it puts it to various uses. It draws up water by its trunk, and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath; and with it, it picks leaves from the trees and puts them into its mouth.
In fact, its trunk serves the elephant as a long time and hand. Elephants look very clumsy and heavy; and yet they can move very quickly when they want to. Eiepnavis are found in India and in Africa. The African elephant differs in some point?, front its Indian counterpart, being larger, with longer tusks and bigger ears. In fact the two are considered to be different species. In both countries, they live in herds in the jungles and are naturally shy animals who keep away from humAnswer: Elephants with their great size and strength, are fine advertisement for vegetarianism, for they live entirely on leaves of trees, grass, roots and bulbs.
The elephant is a very intelligent animal, and its intelligence combined with its great strength, makes it when tamed, a very useful servant to man, and it has been trained to serve in various wravs.
Elephants can carry heavy loads and they are used to draw heavy wagons and big guns that would require many horses. They are very skilful’too in carrying timber. The trained elephant will kneel down, lift a heavy log of wood with its tusks, carry it to the place where it is wanted, and lay it exactly in position. In olden days elephants were used in battles, and all Indian Rajas had their regiments of trained fighting elephants. And they still have their place in state processions, when they are painted with bright colours and covered with silk and velvet clothes.
(i) How does an elephant look like?
(ii) What is unique about an elephant?
(iii) What are the various uses of the elephant’s trunk?
(iv) How are elephants of Africa different from those of India?
(v) What do elephants eat?
