Everything About Elephants

Photograph from: Ben Rosenstiel and  Mason Howard

In many instances humans view animals as inferior; however, these animals, like us, also fulfil specific roles in their environment and they also have special talents. Along with this, elephants are like humans as they have a similar social organisation and they also mourn their dead. Because of this, animals (especially elephants) warrant more respect than what they are given in many instances.

So, what are these roles and special talents?

Role in the Ecosystem:

•  Droppings act as a fertilizer thus enriching the soil and distributing seeds.
•  Elephants pull down trees creating grasslands and salt licks which benefit other animals

Special talents:

• Amazing ability to memorize routes.
• Possess a special ability to sense when a natural disaster is coming.
• Gifted communicators – they communicate through stomach grumbles, trumpeting, rubbing bodies together, stiffing secretions and body postures.

Now that you know more about elephants; do you think they deserve to be poached?