African Bush Elephant

The elephant known as the African Elephant, is the largest land animal. You’ll be amazed at what you’ll discover about the African elephant's tusks. So sit back and get ready to hear about their habitat, places they live, environment, food, habits, their intelligence, and echolocation. Most African Elephants live in Sub Saharan Africa and the rain forest of central and west Africa, also the Sabel desert in Mali. The Asian Elephant on the other hand lives in Nepal , India and Southeast Asia in scrub rain forests and rain forests. Some elephants have a dense, wet rain forest environment, or all Grasslands with just fields of grass or dry…

Carved: Shipping Costs and Ivory Smuggling,” he also shows how African elephant ivory seizures have increased over recent years. For his article, Moyle (2014) collected and used data from UNEP to make a graph showing total seizures of African elephant ivory from 1996 until 2012. His graph also shows the weight of the ivory from the seizures (see figure 3). From Moyle’s graph, one can see that the most ivory seizures in more recent years have been dominated with ivory that is >1000kg. Moyle…

KOYASO LEKOLOI SHOT His first elephant in anger. The hundred or so that followed he killed for money. During nearly two decades as a poacher, bandit, thief, and alleged murderer Lekoloi killed more elephants than any other individual in northern Kenya until, tired of life on the run, he decided to give up poaching. I met Lekoloi by the side of a dry riverbed just outside Samburu National Reserve in Kenya’s arid, craggy north. We sat on the ground beneath a towering acacia tree to talk. The sand…

The african elephant lies in the phylum chordata because it has tissues, and a coelom. Along with having these two attributes, it is bilaterally symmetrical and also possesses a dorsal,tubular nerve cord and a postanal tail. It lies in the class Mammalia because it possess hair which is made of keratin, the hair provides insulation. It is endothermic (the majority of the heat energy is used to maintain their high body temperature). It has a 4 chamber heart. They also have mammary glands that are…

African Ivory Trade Throughout the course of history there has remained one constant, humans are never satisfied. Since the dawn of human history humans have had this desire to crave more and want better. The idea of never being satisfied has led to many accomplishments for the human race, from the expansion of empires such as the Greek and Roman empires, to technological advances in medicine that have pro longed life, and the expansion of knowledge through books and curiosity. All have come…

At the rate that poaching is transpiring, elephants will be extinct by the year 2020 (Mosbergen). The population of elephants has drastically decreased. Ivory-seeking poachers have killed 100,000 African elephants in just three years, which is roughly 100 elephants everyday. This ecological impact is immense, and if nothing is done to stop poaching, elephants will become extinct before we know it. Poaching is a serious problem, especially in Africa and Asia and it takes place for commercial…

I. Strinking feature of rhinos. The rhinoceros is probably best known for its striking resemblance to the dinosaurs of millennia back. - The rhinoceros is one of the largest animals roaming the plains of the planet today, second only to the elephant. A mature rhino typically stands about 1.3 m high at the shoulder, weighs around 700 kg, though the largest individuals have been known to weigh as much as 1,000 kilograms. - Rhinoceroses are universally recognized by their massive bodies, stumpy…

unknown. In the case of “Nama and the Elephant”, the purpose is to show why an elephant’s tusks are made of ivory. Nama, a stunning African girl, caught the eye of an elephant. Determined to marry the girl, he followed her home and began bargaining with her father for her hand in marriage. Persuaded by the significant sum of money the creature offered in exchange for his daughter, Nama’s father handed her over to him. She was trapped inside the elephant’s palace and the relationship, unable to…

very much. Stella the elephant is next-door to him, Bob is a stray dog that Ivan seeks advice from and also lets sleep on his belly, Mack is his owner, and lastly there is Julia and George. George is the mall janitor and Julia is his daughter. Julia comes with George every night. She loves talking to Ivan and always gives him stuff to draw with. Show business in the mall was down so Mack bought a new attraction, a baby elephant named…

Gus Van Sant created his 9th film, Gerry, in 2002. It was caused audiences to split, from those striking the film down, claiming it was tedious and boring, while others called it an art piece. I can see both sides. I was tempted to skip past the lengthy scenes while watching, however, the further I got into the film, the more I realized its significance. Gerry is very long, but there’s reasons for it. Gus Van Sant used the landscape as more than the setting; it signified the character’s inner…