Post from Ash

I learned some things about elephants. There are two different kinds of elephants in the world... Asia & African. Asian elephants have big tusks when they are male and little when they are female. All African elephants can have huge tusks. Asian elephants are smaller than African elephants and they also have smaller ears. When they are far away, they look very small, but when they are close up they look humongous! We got to ride a mommy elephant just like the mahouts do (bareback, without a seat). The mommy's baby elephant was hooked on her and it kept on falling down when we were going up a hill. That slowed us down, but it was very cute. After we rode the elephants, they went into a watering hole with us still on their backs! The baby elephant loved the water! He kept going under and coming back up for air and doing flips. My mommy got soaking wet because an elephant sprayed her right in the face! I love elephants! They are my favorite animal. I would like to have one.