Elephants

The African elephant is the largest living land mammal and one of the most impressive animals on Earth. The elephant trunk serves as a nose, hand, extra foot, helps gather food, siphoning water, dusting, and digging. The trunk can reach up to 23ft. The elephant habitat is dense forest to open planes. Elephants are herbivore. An elephant's lifespan is 60 to 70 years. A elephants predator is a human. Buffalo Buffalo are extremely large animals. Buffalo stand approximately 65 inches at the shoulder

Elephant DreamLand The world is gone all people have been wiped the animals not to be seen.In the darkness arrives , but being only one mammal left.In Awe it is the ELEPHANT.The ground rumbles and crashes the loudness of them Elephants.The mighty majestic of these beasts grazing in the sunlight of the morning so beautiful makes you want to cry with joy. They all huddle at the waterspout at the afternoon when the sun shines bright.The little baby’s frolicking everywhere causing great distress.All

topic that I have is how the elephant has changed over time. A lot of us, either students or not, know about natural selection. But, there are also people who don’t know about natural selection or how some animals may have evolved over time. Well, you may think that the elephant may be related to a wooly mammoth, right? Well, they actually do share an ancestor. We don’t know when or how they were torn apart in the past. In the scientific classifications the elephant is known as Animalia in the kingdom

Reproduction of Female Elephants Basic anatomy and physiology, artificial insemination, parturition, and social aspects of reproduction Introduction The study and research of reproduction in elephants is increasingly critical in consideration of the quickly dwindling population numbers and estimates. The current Asian elephant population is estimated to lie between 50,000-70,000 across the world, with 15,000 of these individuals in captivity. African elephant population numbers are low as well after

This topic came up during the “Class within a Class” on the Illegal Wildlife Trade. One of the readings assigned was a New York Times article about elephant poaching. After working at a charity focusing on wildlife preservation in Africa last summer, I had become passionate about elephant conservation. I had learned about the rapid decline of elephants along with the threat of poaching based on the ivory trade. Yet after completing the readings, I realized that the issue was more complicated than

writing this story about the plight of the Kerala Elephants started when weeks ago I was graciously asked to join a Facebook group, appropriately named "Animal Activists." The next brick in my path was laid by Lisa Fay Wind-Roloff a well meaning member of this group. She sent me a picture of an abused elephants being held in Kerala, India. The path became even clearer as I delved deeper into my research on the agony and torture the Kerala Elephants are suffering at this very moment. As I searched

reading and the lecture is about elephant behaviors. The reading proposes three beliefs about elephants' behaviors; the lecture, however, finds these assumptions questionable, citing three reasons to repudiates what is mentioned in the passage. First, the passage claims that elephants have awareness about their death time. It stands to reason that old elephants leave their herds to live lonely along sites near water. In addition, a large number of elderly elephants found in sites around water illustrates

Asian elephants are a big mammal, let me tell you more about them and what makes them different from the other elephants. Asian elephants live in Nepal, India and Southeast Asia scrub forests and rainforests. Asian elephants have been around for over 55 million years elephants are very successful animals they found many different fossils and they have said over 300 species have walked the earth over a long period. Elephants eat roots, grasses, fruit, and bark. An adult elephant can consume up to

October 2016 Elephant Poaching Wildlife hunting is a big business a 2013 estimate valued the illegal poaching trade in Africa worth 17 billion dollars a year and growing. While elephant poaching between 1800’s - 1999 and 2000’s and up have some similarities they also have a wide variety of differences. Elephant poaching in 1800’s-1999 was done to meet the worldwide demands, but elephant poaching in 2000’s and above was done for sport. Elephant poaching is wrong and shouldn’t be done. Elephant poaching

and the populations of elephants began to recover; CITES also secured an agreement to ban the international trade in ivory. Since January 1990, the international trade of ivory has been illegal; nevertheless, poaching is still greatly present in African countries (Rochon, 2013). Supporting Argument #1: To the millions of people who live around the world, elephants may not mean anything special. To the African population and wildlife, however, elephants are a very necessary part of their lives. It