Elephant Behavior

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

Imagine if one day a “no women allowed” sign appeared in the library, a place frequently visited by all genders. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee gives many examples of gender bias. This book takes place in the 1930’s when women are seen as elegant, composed ladies, staying home and taking care of children. Few dare to challenge this concept. Those who disregard these notions face much scorn and opposition.

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

Sadly, Schwarzenegger's message is true. Ninety-six elephants are killed every single day. This roughly translates to an elephant being killed every 15 minutes. At this rate, none will be left roaming wild and free in 2025, says iworry. Http://iworry.org There's no denying that poachers, in Africa and Asia alike, have a strong incentive to kill elephants and steal their tusks. As reported in The Week, "A single male elephant's two tusks can

The poaching of elephants for their tusks has driven the animal in some countries - such as Sierra Leone and Senegal - to the point of extinction. More than 30,000 elephants were slaughtered in Africa last year alone, 382 of them in Kenya. (Stewart, 2013n n.p.).

For at least 30 years now, elephants have been endangered. During July 2016 a group called 500 Elephants started up to help save the elephants. 500 Elephants has been a huge help to the elephant community.

The Gourma region of Mali is home to one of only two desert elephant herds in the world with approximately 550 elephants. But conservationists warn that without government support and intervention, Mali's desert desert elephants could go extinct in 3 years. In 2015, 80 desert elephants were killed and another 16 elephants were killed in January 2016. Poaching and habitat loss have caused their numbers to drop from tens of thousands to low hundreds.

What if your child was dying? What if nothing the experts tried worked? What if your only choice was an untested drug? What would you do then? These questions, while hypothetical to many people, are the reality of others. The snake oil man of olden days could be compared to medical marijuana dispensers today. Many view medical marijuana as something adults should not partake in let alone children. Others see it as perfectly fine, comparing it to alcohol or tobacco products that need some monitoring, but not much. Giving it a medicinal purpose seems to make marijuana more authoritative.

Outside of the potential cooperation problems between local and national governments, there is also the cultural issue that many farmers and villagers do not respect elephants. Because elephants are creatures of habit, they follow the same migration paths that their ancestors have for decades. Due to the increased agriculture in African villages, elephants often cross right through small farms or villages, destroying crops and small structures. Many African villagers who have had these encounters with elephants do not understand the Western fascination and obsession with saving an animal they perceive as a large, more destructive cockroach.

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

800,000 seems like a huge number until it becomes clear that it used to be several million (“Basic Facts About Elephants”). Most would never guess that these numbers are those of the elephant population. Everyday the population gets smaller and smaller, and humans are the reason why, but also the only way to get those numbers back up. The elephant population has decreased immensely and could vanish if steps are not taken, humans are the only hope for seizing the poaching, ivory trade, and habitat takeover.

- Since the beginning of the 20th century there were a few million elephants and exactly 100,000 elephants. Now elephants are considered an endangered species, appearently now there are about 450,000-700,000 African elephants and 35,000-40,000 Asian elephants.

Just imagine life without any elephants, wiped out just like the dinosaurs. In the early 1980’s, there were more than a million reported elephants in Africa. Tragically, during that decade, 600,000 elephants were destroyed for ivory products. Today, conceivably no more than 400,000 elephants remain across the continent. Elephants are facing a very real threat of extinction; In fact, the African elephants are listed on the

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.

As we all know, fossil fuel energy comes from wood and some organic materials from millions years ago. They experienced slow chemical process and became the coal and raw petroleum as we see today. However, since the first industry revolution, the speed of mining fossil materials and consuming all kinds of oil products has been accelerating in a geometric growth. People use coal to generated trains, and they use fuel to generated the majority of their engines, which includes cars, aircrafts, and heating machine. We have billions of people on earth right now, and everyone needs to consume energy for transportation, lightning and many fields in various ways. Where do the energy come from in the past three hundred years? Absolutely from the fossil material. But fossil energy is not unlimited, it has a maximum. When we consume it till the edge, then we have nothing to generate our machine. Luckily, solutions are always more than the problems. We create the way that is called renewable energy. It helps us retrieve energy from nature, like solar, wind, and water. These kinds of energy are unlimited, relatively, which means if the sun doesn’t fall down, the oceans aren’t dry, we can get power from them. However, even though it has a bright future, we still have many obstacles needed to be solved. (Hepbasli & Alsuhaibani 2011)