Elephant Word Search

One animal in five lists, from its trunk and tusks to its family and the people who protect it.

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ONETAZZAZSJBTSA

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NODTRUMPETUSKHR

TTRZYMUEYEOVVER

TRUNKTNWRINKLES

ZSAVANNALYDRTEK

ELEPHANTAMBTNLA

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ElephantELEPHANT
MammothMAMMOTH
TrunkTRUNK
TuskTUSK
IvoryIVORY
WrinklesWRINKLES
HerdHERD
CalfCALF
MatriarchMATRIARCH
CowCOW
FamilyFAMILY
TrumpetTRUMPET
SavannaSAVANNA
WaterholeWATERHOLE
AfricaAFRICA

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IAHMATRIARCHTPH

ONETAZZAZSJBTSA

NNREDUEDPBWHGMH

NODTRUMPETUSKHR

TTRZYMUEYEOVVER

TRUNKTNWRINKLES

ZSAVANNALYDRTEK

ELEPHANTAMBTNLA

VELELEXEWADCOWZ

NPACIVORYMYJLDG

JNFATTOHYMCFLAS

GTRLIIAOOOERLSA

YPIFAMILYTMTRAO

ZPCCYSHEMHOOYFG

EMAATEOWNLUSAHH

ELEPHANT, MAMMOTH, TRUNK, TUSK, IVORY, WRINKLES, HERD, CALF, MATRIARCH, COW, FAMILY, TRUMPET, SAVANNA, WATERHOLE, AFRICA

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Elephants and Their Relatives 14

African The two ___ kinds of elephant have larger ears than their cousin and a back that dips in the middle.
Asian The ___ elephant has smaller ears than its cousins and a level or rounded back.
Bush The African ___ elephant, also called the savanna elephant, is the largest living land animal.
Dugong A seagrass-eating sea mammal of the Indian and western Pacific oceans, a close living relative of elephants.
Elephant The largest living land animal. Three kinds are alive today.
Elephas The scientific name of the genus of the Asian elephant.
Forest The African ___ elephant, the smallest of the three kinds, lives in the humid jungles of West Africa and the Congo Basin.
Hyrax A small, stout plant-eater found mostly in Africa, one of the closest living relatives of elephants.
Loxodonta The scientific name of the genus of the two African elephants.
Mammoth An extinct relative of the Asian elephant. The last ones lived on an Arctic island until about 4,000 years ago.
Manatee A plant-eating sea mammal. With the hyrax, it is one of the elephant's closest living relatives.
Mastodon An extinct member of the same order as the elephants. It lived only in North America.
Pachyderm An old name, meaning thick-skinned, for elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses.
Proboscidea The order of mammals whose only living members are the elephants.

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An Elephant's Body 19

Brain An elephant's weighs 4.5 to 5.5 kilograms, the largest of any land mammal.
Bristles Stiff hairs, found on the tip of an elephant's tail.
Ears Large flaps that an elephant waves back and forth to get rid of body heat. The African bush kind has the biggest.
Feet Round, with a soft cushion pad inside that helps to carry the animal's great weight.
Fingers The grasping tips of the trunk: African elephants have two, the Asian elephant one.
Heart An elephant's weighs 12 to 21 kilograms and beats about 28 times a minute when the animal stands.
Ivory The hard, white material that a tusk is made of.
Legs Set straight under the body, so an elephant can stand for a long time without tiring.
Molars Big chewing teeth. New ones come in at the back of the jaw as worn ones are pushed out.
Muscles A trunk is made of these, in up to 150,000 small bundles, with no bone.
Skin Gray, tough and 2.5 centimeters thick on the back, yet very sensitive.
Skull An elephant's is full of air spaces, like a honeycomb, which keep it light and strong.
Snorkel A breathing tube. A swimming elephant uses its trunk as one.
Tail On an elephant it ends in a clump of thick hair and bristles.
Toenails An elephant can have as many as five on each foot.
Trunk A long nose joined with the upper lip. It has no bone and can lift up to 350 kilograms.
Tusk A long upper front tooth that keeps growing, by about 17 centimeters a year.
Whiskers Stiff hairs. On an elephant they grow along the trunk and are packed closest at the tip.
Wrinkles Folds in the skin. On the trunk they help it bend.

Herd and Family Life 22

Allomother A young female that helps care for a calf that is not her own.
Browse To feed on leaves and twigs, as African elephants mostly do.
Bull A grown male elephant. He leaves the family as he matures and lives alone or with other males.
Calf A baby elephant, about 120 kilograms at birth.
Cow A grown female elephant.
Dust After bathing, an elephant blows this over its body with its trunk.
Family Female elephants spend their whole lives in this close group of relatives.
Flyswatter An Asian elephant has been seen trimming a branch to use as one.
Graze To feed on grass, as Asian elephants mainly do.
Greeting Elephants do this by touching each other, which lets them pick up scents.
Herd A family group of elephants that live and travel together.
Infrasound Sound below 20 hertz. Elephants use such deep calls to keep in touch over long distances.
Matriarch The female that leads an elephant family, often the oldest.
Memory Elephants are popularly said to have an excellent one, and may keep long-lasting mental maps.
Mirror Elephants can recognize themselves in one, a sign of self-awareness.
Mud Bath A roll in wet earth, which keeps an elephant's skin moist and guards it from sunburn and insect bites.
Play Young females do this by chasing each other, young males by mock fighting.
Rumble A deep call. Some are too low for people to hear and may carry over 10 kilometers.
Sleep Elephants average only 3 to 4 hours of this a day.
Swimming Elephants are good at it and can keep it up for six hours.
Trumpet A loud call. Some of an elephant's calls pass through the trunk.
Walking The only way an elephant moves on land, slow or fast. It cannot trot, jump or gallop.

Where Elephants Live and What They Eat 17

Africa Two of the three kinds of elephant live on this continent, south of the Sahara.
Botswana In the north of this country, elephants walk 325 kilometers to the Chobe River in the dry season.
Desert A very dry habitat. Some elephants live even here.
Drought A long dry spell, when elephants dig for water.
Dung Droppings. Much of an elephant's food passes through undigested, so they feed beetles and spread seeds.
Grass The main food of Asian elephants.
Herbivore An animal that eats only plants. An elephant can eat 300 kilograms of them in a day.
India The country with around 60 percent of all Asian elephants.
Keystone A ___ species has a very large effect on its surroundings. Elephants are counted as one.
Marsh Low, wet land, one of the habitats elephants use.
River Elephants tend to stay near a source of water such as this.
Roots The underground parts of plants, which elephants eat.
Sahara Wild African elephants live south of this great desert.
Savanna Grassland with scattered trees, one home of African elephants.
Sri Lanka An island country where male elephants without tusks are especially common.
Twigs Small woody shoots, part of an elephant's diet.
Waterhole A pool where animals drink. Elephants dig them in droughts and make old ones bigger.

Elephants and People 8

Chili Products made from this hot pepper help to keep elephants away from farm fields.
Conservation Work to protect wild animals and the places where they live.
Corridor A strip of wild land that links two habitats, so that elephants can pass between them.
Crops Elephants trample and eat these, which leads to conflict with farmers.
Endangered At high risk of dying out. All three kinds of elephant are listed as this or worse.
Mahout A person who rides, trains or keeps an elephant.
Poaching Illegal hunting, one of the major threats to elephants.
Sanctuary A place where animals are kept safe.

How this list was compiled: 80 elephant words in five lists, from elephants and their relatives to elephants and people. Facts in the clues were checked on October 16, 2026 against English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0), chiefly its Elephant article, and against the Smithsonian's National Zoo page on the Asian elephant (https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/asian-elephant). This site is not affiliated with the Smithsonian. Licence: own work

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This elephant word search opens on 15 words: Trunk, Tusk, Ivory, Herd, Calf, Matriarch, Savanna, Waterhole and seven more, hidden across and down only. Behind it wait 80 elephant words in five lists, each with a one-line fact.

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A free elephant word search printable in five lists

Elephants and Their Relatives has 14 words, such as Mammoth, Mastodon and Hyrax. An Elephant's Body has 19, from Trunk and Tusk to Toenails. Herd and Family Life has 22, such as Matriarch, Rumble and Mud Bath. Where Elephants Live and What They Eat has 17, and Elephants and People has 8, with Mahout and Corridor.

The easy printable elephant word search

Easy Elephants keeps to 31 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Calf, Herd, Ears and Dust. Hard Elephants has 25 long ones, Proboscidea and Infrasound among them.

The grid drops spaces, so Mud Bath hides as MUDBATH and Sri Lanka as SRILANKA.

Questions and answers

How many kinds of elephant are there?

Three: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Asian elephant. The bush elephant is the largest living land animal. The forest elephant, of West Africa and the Congo Basin, is the smallest of the three.

What is an elephant's trunk made of?

Muscle. The trunk is the nose and upper lip joined together, with no bone. The Smithsonian's National Zoo counts about 150,000 muscle units in it. Wikipedia's Elephant article says it can lift 350 kilograms, or crack a peanut shell without breaking the seed.

What is the difference between African and Asian elephants?

African elephants have larger ears, a back that dips and two finger-like tips on the trunk, and both sexes grow tusks. Asian elephants have smaller ears, a level or rounded back and one finger, and only males have large tusks.

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Elephants and Their Relatives 14

An Elephant's Body 19

Herd and Family Life 22

Where Elephants Live and What They Eat 17

Elephants and People 8

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