Maths with Moses
1. An Elephants gestation is 22 months answer the following
questions:
A. If a female falls pregnant on the 1st of January 2010
when would the calf be born?
B. If a female falls pregnant on the 1st of January 2012
when would the calf be born?
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C. How many days would she be pregnant for?
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D. How many minutes would she be pregnant for?
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E. How many seconds would she be pregnant for?
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2. A female elephant normally produces babies between the ages
of 25 and 45 years old. They normally fall pregnant again once
their baby is two years old.
A. How many babies will an average female elephant
have?
B. If one of the elephants has 3 males babies how many
females will be born?
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C. What percentage of the babies in question 2B are
male?
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3. In the wild baby elephants drink for 1.5 minutes normally male
calves drink every 37 minutes and females every 60 minutes
A. How many times in a day do male elephants drink?
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B. For how many minutes in total in a day will female
elephants drink for?
1 inch (in) = 2.5 centimetres (cm)
12 inches (in) = 1 foot (ft)
100 cm = 1 meter (m)
1 pound (lb) = 2.2 Kilograms (kg)
The trunk probably evolved from a snorkel function 30 million years ago
when elephants were aquatic creatures. Elephants still snorkel when
swimming submerged. The ancient snorkel, though, has adapted to a
plethora of functions. With it, an elephant can hoist a 300-pound (136 kg)
log, pick up a peanut, suck up a gallon (4 liters) of water, jet it for a shower,
play wrestle, snatch leaves tree tops, periscope-sniff for danger, hug a
friend, and change its nostril size to modify its voice. This boneless
proboscis (the longest animal snout) can weigh 181 kg and 2.1 m long.
4. Using the information above answer the questions below
A. How many inches is an Elephants trunk?
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B. How many centimetres long is the elephant’s trunk?
C. How many pounds does the trunk weight?
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D. If a tree is 4 feet 6 inches high how many cm is this?
And can the elephant eat the leaves on the top
branch?
Each elephant’s ear weights about 110 pounds and are about 1.8 m by 1.2
m. He extents his ears out when he is angry this almost quadruples his
frontal area His ears not only threaten others but also cool him. By fanning
the flaps, he cools his internal blood temperature 9°F (5°C) if the outside
temperature rises above 77°F (30°C). Blood, jammed in myriad vessels
against ear skin, cools. Chilled blood snakes through the immense body —
cooling it like a long drink of ice water. If it's windy, he just holds them open
and exposes hot arteries to the cool breeze.
5. Using the information above answer the questions below
A. How many kilograms does an ear weight?
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B. How big is the elephants ear in feet and inches?
6. In 1980 there were 1,000,000 elephants in the wild, today in
2012 there are 450,000 left and are currently 36,000 a year are
being poached
A. How many a day are being killed?
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B. At the current rate of poaching how many years are left
before they are all gone?
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