Characteristics Of The African Elephant

There are many places where you can find savanah. The most common places are australia, southwest asia, madagascar, south america, and india. Right before the rainy seasons come most of the animals are about to dye of dehydration but then it starts raining and rejuvenates them. The place where the most savannas are is in africa. Because it is so hot and dry; not many trees grow there but the trees that grows there most is the acacia tree or the boab tree.These trees store water in between the bark and the tree. Since it is so hot and there is little water, animals have adaptations to survive. On of these adaptations is the african elephant. These elephants have a physical adaptation to break the skin of the boab tree and drink the water inside.

The official title of the world’s largest land dwelling animal belongs to the elephant, more specifically, the African elephant. Elephants also are some of the most deadly animals, which therefore increase the danger of human and elephant interactions. The more human interactions occur, the more deaths result, whether it is the elephant or the human who dies. These animals, surprisingly, are socially apt; their trunk is used for more than just eating and drinking- it is used for socializing. They are complex animals who live in large familial herds-females stay with their family throughout their entire lives while males only stay for approximately fifteen years (Elephant Protection, 1). Elephants possess a great memory and only forget what they learn occasionally and rarely, giving way to the “an elephant never forgets” saying (Maloiy, 178c). Despite how many people use the beloved saying, elephants may not be around much longer due to the shortened life span and increased mortality rates. Due to their incisor teeth, tusks, being extremely expensive and profitable, they are being murdered for the wealth they carry. This, coupled with the life span shortening because of malicious treatments and brutal practices reduces the life span of the African elephant from 56 to 16 years and the Asian elephant from 42 to 19 years (Elephant Protection, 1). According to what the statistics show, elephants may be following their ancestors to their death. Of the group of mammals called

The African Bush elephants are found in eastern and southern Africa. Some of the areas with the highest densities of the Bush elephant is: Tanzania, South African, Kenya, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia. The African Bush elephant is terrestrial. The Bush elephant usually live in the grasslands, semi-deserts and the bush lands. They also clear out forest and turn them into more of grassland, by knocking down the trees. The climate that the Bush elephant normally lives in is dry and hot. Their thin hairs and ears help them stay cool. Another way that they stay cool is that their hides become more permeable in the heat. Scientists has performed research on 13 elephants (African and Asian), they measure the release of heat and moisture. What they have found was that their skin opens up at air temperatures as low at 10°C to 12°C, this is what allows them to perspire. Elephants are different than most mammals, that sweats through glands connected to pores, elephants only have pores between their toes. Elephants do not sweat (Phillips, 1992). By all of the skin being permeable they lose more

The year is 1,002,016 and it’s scorching hot! The African Bush Elephant’s trunk has evolved to be six inches longer. The ancient elephants had a different variation of the trunk, some of them had a smaller trunk, some elephants with longer trunks. Now that there was different types of elephants natural selection came into place so, more and more of the elephants had longer trunks, but as time has passed water became scarce. As a result, the elephants with the smaller trunks in the population diminished. Since they were not able to survive. The elephant with the longer trunk were able to survive more. Now the trait will help the elephant survive since, it was able to adapt to their new dry sandy habitat since it be able to smell the water

During the 18th century ivory dominated the trade of the colonies in northern Mozambique, but the demand for slaves in the begging of the 19th century changed this scenario of hunting for elephants in East Africa. Now,

The adult bush African elephant is generally no natural predators because of its large size, but the calves (especially infants) are vulnerable to lions and crocodiles attacks, and (rarely)

I chose to put on my totem pole a elephant, a panther, a turkey, and a paint brush, because I believe they represent me, and they symbolise who I am. The elephant represents Strength, power, affection, loyalty, royalty, and wisdom. I am strong and I try to help people like when I carry things that my parents can’t and when my brother broke his leg I carried everything for him. I also represent wisdom when I say things about the world that not many people my age know, and when I can think deeply about things that other people can't understand. Like when I talked about the show “Cosmos” with my friend Jack in Fifth grade. Another animal I chose to represent me was the panther. The panther represents protection, hidden emotions, Introspection,

In either species, if it is possible for the male to make body contact with the female he tries to lay his head or trunk in the elephant, on her back. After lots of

[5]Because the African elephant is so big it lives in grassy plains and woodlands or equatorial forests of central and western Africa.

West Africa is home to one of the last herds of desert elephants -- the other desert herd lives in Namibia. Like elephants http://www.care2.com/causes/7-easy-ways-to-help-this-world-elephant-day.html

Asian Elephants have been proven to be one of the smartest animals on the planet. There are various things that have been video recorded and scientifically tested to prove that animals can do human like things. Some of the things that elephants are capable of doing are identifying

One day I was with an American friend watching a video showing how our denomination was planting churches in some of the remotest areas in East Africa. The video showed large Japanese vehicles going across the bushes, passing by people on the roadsides, and running into different animals crossing the roads, including huge African elephants. Then, my friend asked me if elephants were everywhere in Africa running around in the streets like squirrels do here in Pennsylvania. I smiled before responding to him because I realized that he had seen only this single story of Africa. Then I went on and explained to him that Africa was not very different from the rest of the world, and that there are places reserved for animals as well as big cities and

Adult elephants consume about 250-300 pounds of food in a day. Adult African elephant are usually between 10-13 feet from their feet to their shoulder, they are the largest mammal on land.African elephants live from 60-70 years.Sometimes death is caused when they lose all

With an estimated 600 elephants, Addo has one of the highest population numbers of African elephants in the world. Each Addo elephant is, surprisingly, individually named and identified by the wrinkles on the face, unique notches, tears or vein patterns in the ears. There are seven distinct family groups in the park with smaller subgroups. Due to isolation, and a small original population size, genetic diversity is low amongst the Addo elephants; the majority of elephants are related. Many of the original 11 did not have tusks, and most likely survived because there was no attraction of ivory.

“We are experiencing what is likely to be the greatest percentage loss of elephants in history,” said Richard G. Ruggiero, an official with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Ney York Times; December 3, 2012). The poaching of elephants started in the late 1800’s and is still happening today. People are slaughtering these majestic animals for their ivory tusks. Ivory has been sold on the black market for millions of dollars. Before the start of ivory poaching there were millions of elephants in the world in both Africa and India, but today because of the hunting for ivory, there are barely any of these giants left in the wild. Throughout history Europeans have been moving in on central African states to make