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Asian Elephants
Asian Elephants
The ears of Asian Elephants are shaped like the Indian subcontinent. While, the Asian Elephants have one.
African Elephants
African Elephants
The ears of African Elephants are much larger than their cousins and are being described as being shaped like the African continent. There are also a trunk difference, they have two fingers at the tip of their trunks.
An Elephant never forgets
An Elephant never forgets
The elephant's temporal lobe (the area of a brain associated with memory) is larger and denser than of that of people. People usually say the phrase that "elephants never forget."
Challenges
Challenges
Elephants are smart, emotional, self-aware and highly social creatures. As, well as being the largest land animal on earth, elephants are a keystone species and play an important role in the environment where they live. However, having roamed the wild for 15 million years, today this iconic species faces the biggest threat to its survival due to ivory poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction.
Ivory Poaching
Ivory Poaching
Watch this video to learn about ivory poaching and how it affects Elephants.
How poaching affects the Elephants
How poaching affects the Elephants
Watch this video to learn on how poaching affects Elephants.
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