Elephant and Rhino Comparison

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

Let’s talk about elephants and donkeys, and no, this is not at the zoo. These are the two political parties that run the government in America. Today, America primarily has a two-party system, the Democrats and Republicans. They are always seen on the news bickering and fighting with one another, and it is never a surprise if a bill is going to pass, depending on which party is in control of Congress at the moment. When you get into an argument with a sibling, significant other, parents, etc., it can make it hard to focus on anything else going on in life. The parties are always at each other’s throats, which makes one wonder if they are focused on the well-being of this nation. Helen Keller once said in regard to politics, “Our democracy is but a name. We vote. What does that mean? . . . We choose between two . . . bodies of autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee” (qtd. in “Challengers of Duopoly”). Something needs to change so that America gets back the representative democracy it once was; we are a nation of 320,000,000 people and counting, yet we are supposed to be split into two measly groups when it comes to politics? A third-party candidate, and the acceptance of independents, would allow America to become a more democratic nation and help with the current polarization of the parties.

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 Sumatran elephant is a critically endangered animal whose continued existence is being threatened due to conflict with humans. The Sumatran elephant’s scientific name is Elephas Maximus Sumatranus, and it is a subspecies of the Asian Elephant. The Sumatran elephant is in the kingdom Animalia, the phylum Chordata, the class Mammalia, the order Proboscidea, the family Elephantidae, the genus Elephas, and the species Elephas Maximus.

There are a variety of similarities surrounding the “peer pressure” the characters from both stories feel. Firstly, both of them had been given a choice to decide what they could do. They could either give in to the pressure and follow the easy way or try to oppose it in order to listen to their heart. In shooting an Elephant, George had been given a choice to either shoot the elephant or to let it go without killing it. Likewise, in Divergent, Beatrice could decide to either remain in Abnegation or to leave her old faction and join the Dauntless.

There are only five rhinoceros species left in the world. Two types of rhinoceros have one

Although there is a wide array of animal species that live in Asia, the Elephant is one of the most prized and sought after animal species in the continent because of its large impact on culture and society. Elephants are one of the smartest animals on the entire planet and they have a very big cultural significance also. They are very friendly with humans as well, which makes them an even more likeable animal. Their cultural significance goes back to the Buddhist days and has carried on all the way to today. Elephants are becoming an extinct animal and are an endangered species as pronounced by the IUCN. Asian elephants are herbivores and are considered the biggest land animals in all of Asia. The average life span of an Asian elephant is 60 years and they have trunks that contain 60,000 muscles, which is why they use it for so many things. Most Asian elephants have tusks, which they can use to debark trees and help protect them from various other things such as predators. The skin color of elephants is usually gray and is smoother then the skin of an African elephant.

During estrus, males will sniff the anogenital region and lick the clitoris (Ramirez, 1988). Copulations were also found to be preceded by the female presenting her genitals and by embracing and huddling by the pair (Ramirez, 1988). During copulation the male will mount the female from behind, dorso-ventral, lock the legs over her thighs, wrap the arms around her abdomen, then make thrusts with the pelvis (Ramirez, 1988). During mounting both the males and females will perform teeth chattering (Nishimura, 1988; cited in Nishimura, 1990). Females may also mount the males during sexual encounters (Ramirez, 1988).

Compare and contrast Elephant and Xolo Did you know that elephants and Xolos can be pets? You need to know about animals boucau they have lot of cool stuff to show you. Read this paper to learn what those animals lives are like.

The population consists of two main species of Elephant, the Asian and the African. The Asian elephant is divided into three subspecies: the Indian, Sumatran, and the Sri Lankan (“Asian Elephant”). African elephants are split into

in Africa, they're disappearing at an alarming rate, but they could go extinct much sooner than other African elephants in 2025. http://iworry.org/

Endangered species help to gauge the health of ecosystems and can help individuals become more conscious of their environments and conservation issues around the globe. In recent years, various species and subspecies of rhinoceros have become threatened, endangered, and even extinct. One such subspecies, which was not only endangered, but has been declared extinct inhabitat as of June 26, 2013, is Africa's Western black rhino (Lavina, 2013).

When an male African elephant reaches puberty he will leave his natal family because he needs to join a

Textual Evidence: “Social Beasts: The elephant’s massive stature and instantly recognizable trunk are familiar to people around the world. Elephant society is matriarchal; the groups are highly social and ruled by an older, dominant

Elephant populations suffered a drop in numbers that carried the species into the endangered animals list. At the beginning of the twentieth century, about ten million elephants lived in Africa. Presently, the ten million is reduced to half a million because of illegal hunting and habitat loss. Studies of the population show twenty-two thousand were killed in 2012 and twenty-five thousand in 2011. When comparing the death rate to the natural population growth, there is a possibility the largest mammal on Earth could be extinct soon (Vaughan 1). Because the elephant is the largest animal to walk on land, the greatly increasing human population affects the elephant population first. They live in some regions of the world that have the densest human population which continues to grow, which therefore continuously decreases their own population (Bryner 1). As the human population swiftly increases, the elephant population in turn, decreases. This is so because they cannot cohabitate the same living space. Elephants and humans cannot cohabitate because they would kill each other due to the inability to communicate. About population recovery, the Animal wildlife foundation states, “Populations of elephants- especially in Southern and Eastern Africa- that once showed promising signs of recovery could be at risk due to the recent surge in poaching for the illegal ivory trade”(1). Poaching presents one of the main issues that make recovery so difficult for these animals.