How To Build An Elephant

Not surprisingly, elephants are known for being more emotional and empathetic animals than the rest. According the three articles, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task”, and “Elephants Console Each Other” elephants understand when they need each other’s assistance. All two authors describe the studies of elephant behavior differently, but with a similar purpose.

Furthermore, in the last article, “Elephants Console Each Other.” Written by Virginia Morell. The purpose that the author wrote this is to inform the people that are reading this, with facts about how elephants console each other. I know this because in the passage it states. “They help baby elephants stuck in mud holes, use their trunks to ift other elephants that are injured or dying, and even reportedly reassure distressed individual elephants with a gentle touch of their trunk.” This was written for someone who wants to learn about elephant behaviour due to the evidence in the

Every hunter proceeded with the utmost caution. When an elephant was spotted, everyone stayed back as one of the lead hunters, Arumba, stepped up to take aim at the elephant. The first time, he was unsuccessful because the elephant galloped away right before he had a chance to strike, it took a few more hours to re-track the creature. When it was spotted again Arumba crept up with great stealth and ease and struck the elephant with the spear. Arumba's spear entered deep into the side of it's target. The elephant let out a screech of pain and galloped off again. The Mbuti hunters then followed the blood trail of the wounded elephant and waited for it to die. They followed this particular elephant for approximately two hours before it stopped running. Word was sent back to camp that an elephant was wounded and that they should be ready to move very soon. Later, the elephant was found again, swaying on it's feet fighting to stay alive. One of the hunters through a stick and hit the elephant in the head, it simply let out a yell, but did not move. "This animal is dead," said one of the hunters. They soon approached it and jabbed it lightly with the spear once more, it didn't even budge.

Before it was shot it had escaped its holding facility and at that moment he lost his rights from animal cruelty since it is now a wild animal. The elephant runs from its holding container, only to be directed, directly into the path the rural village. Orwell explains when, and how, the elephant escaped as the sub-inspector told “It had been chained up, as tame elephants always are when their attack of “must” is due, but on the previous night it had broken its chain and escaped.” (Orwell 2)

Explanation and Analysis: There really are a lot of characteristics overlooked when talking about Elephants as a whole species.

Since the elephant was no longer a threat, there is no need to shoot it. The elephant should have been left alone in the field until its owner came to claim him.

It's a widely known fact that poaching has been detrimental to the welfare and very existence of elephants. Despite countless efforts to thwart poaching and ivory trade missions, the number of elephant deaths at the hands of poachers is still critically high. IB Times reported in 2015 that due to poaching, a staggering 35,000 African elephants are killed each year—that translates to nearly 100 elephants

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

Poaching has been increasing for many years. The number of poaching cases throughout the decades have been increasing. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, the ivory demand grew drastically making poaching for ivory increase throughout these years (Stiles, 309). CITES recommended to use a system called Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) in which helped monitor the illegal killing of elephants (Stiles, 312). Also, to try and qualify the number of those elephants killed by poachers (Scriber). The system has been working well that now monitors between 30 and 40 percent of the elephant population

The author of this article, Michael D. Lemonick, discusses how some animals aren't able to be kept humanely in captivity. This article mainly focuses on elephants that are kept in captivity. Normally elephants roam up to, if not more than, 30 miles a day and they socialize with up to 20 other elephants a day. While in captivity, elephants are not experiencing their lives the way they should. If an elephant is in an exhibit that is too small for them, they can develop serious health issues such as, foot problems, arthritis, and even premature deaths. Most zoos aren't equipped to take care of elephants like they should. Lemonick discusses zoos across the country that have stopped exhibiting elephants altogether, due to severe issues seen in elephants.

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

The description of the elephant in distress displays physical incapacity. The elephant appears to be at its most momentous just before it plunges to the ground. This illustrates that at the elephant’s final hour of a notable defeat becomes a more influential idol of the preposterous ruthlessness of colonialism. As the narrator came to a realization of his actions, he sees that the people that were verbally harassing him became a fan of him. The narrator hoped no one exposes his skepticism of not killing the elephant to “avoid looking like a fool” which I believe is completely absurd.

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

The young elephant will initially try to escape because it was not born with a chain on its foot and mobility is limited. After trying for a while, the animal realizes that escaping is futile and gives in to the restraint, enabling the trainer to control the elephant for the rest of its life. An elephant is a powerful creature weighing up to 24,000 pounds and standing 13 feet tall. This mature captive elephant has been conditioned to be a slave from infancy. It's mind was changed as a baby when escape was futile and its spirit converted to

The first passage talks about how the elephants help each other out. For example the elephants would help feed each other.They would also help another elephant I it is hurt. Another way they would help each other out is by defending one another. That is what the first passage talks about.