The Elephant Vanishes

Huffington Post, elephants will grieve for their lost loved ones in the same manner as humans. In addition, they possess many other social characteristics as our own society, such as being grouped into complex societies and having frolicsome spirits. Consequently, there was an aptness for scientists to index them, along with various other species, into a high-ranking social group of animals along with hyenas, rooks, and humans. The article, "Elephants Can Lead a Helping Trunk", video, "Elephants…

The Elephant Crisis Fund is improving the conservation of elephants through reducing poaching, trafficking, and demand for ivory, but needs to improve their methods through including indigenous people’s ideas and stopping the continuation of “Othering” indigenous people. The Elephant Crisis Fund is working to conserve elephants because their population numbers have dropped from three million to around 300,000 in the wild, with their numbers steadily decreasing. In Sub-Saharan Africa elephants…

African Elephant, scientifically known as the loxodonta africana, is the world’s largest land animal. There are two subspecies known as the savannah elephant, loxodonta africana africana, and the forest elephant, loxodonta africana cyclotis. They both live in central and western Africa; the savannah elephant lives in the grassy woodlands and plains, and the forest elephant lives in equatorial forests. The African Elephant has lived on the continent of Africa for thousands of years, and elephants…

treadmill is aimed at African elephants. African elephants (Loxodonta Africana) usually grow to be between 8.2 to 13 feet from toe to shoulder and they usually weigh between 5,000 to 14,000 lbs (National Geographic, 2015). In the wild, African elephants typically travel long distances and can travel up to 19-37 miles per day (Zoocheck Canada, 2015). The amount of distance they travel usually depends on availability of food. Even though at the zoo the elephants will be well fed they…

Standing majestically on a huge rock, an enormous 8 feet pygmy elephant bull with his long tail, straight ivory tusk and wide ear but shorter trunk than the typical Asian elephant, he stood on his hind leg and gave a loud trumpeting call. He was the leader of the herd and also my father. We had had been walking for few days now. My previous home, acres of lush green pastures with valleys of huge beautiful shady trees and a wide clear and cool river had been intruded. Few days ago, humans…

In the beginning of the 20th century, 500,000 rhinoceros roamed through Africa and Asia and only range from five species: Sumatran rhino, black rhino, white rhino, javan rhino, and Indian rhino. Out of these five species, the most iconic is the black rhino. Known for their two horns and hook-lipped, black rhinos live in the lower half of Africa, separating into two subspecies: Western black rhinos and Eastern black rhinos. However, in 1970, it was recorded that there were only around 65,000…

described as “a woman who is the head of a family or tribe,” but does it go beyond the title in elephants? Throughout history, elephants have stood as symbols as strength, wisdom and longevity. Demanding respect with their majestic frames, roaming in families that sometimes span three or more generations, Elephants are nothing but regal. Different species have diverse ways of caring of their young, but the elephant is the peak of captivation in their maternal characteristics. From the…

Crimson Tide, in Tuscaloosa, AL. Big Al is an elephant, they say in 1930 when UA’s first football team was entering the stadium a fan yelled “hold your horses, the elephants are coming” and has stuck with them ever since. UA went on to win the Championship that year. In 1980 there was a vote on campus and Big Al stayed the mascot and received the name “Big Al”. That same year the mascot was first brought out on to the field as an elephant costume. Elephants ancestors have been traced back to 38…

Over the course of the last five wildlife management eras, wildlife management methods in South Africa, the American West, and Mexico have proved successful. This is in large part due to the developing strategies and philosophies in the last three eras that helped resurrect declining wildlife populations. For example, buffalo and buffalo grasses are steadily being restored to the American plains, a stark contrast to the near extermination of them in the 1800’s. Another example in the American…

Sumatran Elephants eat a wide variety of vegetation including grasses, leaves, shoots, barks, fruits, nuts, and seeAs its name suggests, the Sumatran Elephant is found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. However, the Sumatran Elephant population has severely dropped. “They have lost 80% of their natural habitat to deforestation for palm oil plantations.” (a-z-animals.com). Poachers are also hunting them for their ivory tusks which is killing them off as well. “In 2012, the Sumatran Elephant was…