Elephant Poaching Elephants were once a common species to see around Africa and Asia‚ but due to ivory trading elephants have become critically endangered. Every day elephants become more and more endangered and soon they will be extinct. Elephants are killed everyday and used for ivory. Elephants are beautiful creatures and it would be shameful to let them go extinct. Elephant poaching is a serious problem and is not being stopped. According to the 96 Elephants Foundation‚ “96 elephants are killed
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The African Elephant is the largest land mammal today. He has huge ears. The African Elephant is from the one of Asia. The African Elephant has 3 nails on its hind legs while the element Asian elephant owns 4 .The elephant trunk of Africa has two appendages instead of one for the one from Asia. African elephants live south of the Sahara‚ in savannas and forests and sometimes in semi- desert regions. Asian elephants live in Southeast Asia and India and prefer forests dense. Asian elephants are intelligent
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Name Instructor English 15 October 2010 "Death of an Elephant": Symbolism in Orwell As a former business major‚ whenever I read‚ whether fiction or non-fiction‚ I tend to focus too much on the surface meaning—the facts—and I often miss the subtle symbolism and deeper meaning of a piece of literature. As an English major‚ I am attempting to change‚ but I am often skeptical of symbolism‚ fearing that we may be reading too much into an author’s words. For
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of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya‚ has studied the same population of elephants for 44 years. She has born in 1940 in Ossining‚ New York‚ U.S.A. In 1972‚ she started the famous Amboseli Elephant Research Project at Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Since then she and her research associates have identified and recorded more than 1‚400 elephants belonging to 50 families at an immense of 400 square miles. For 14 years Cynthia Moss traced the histories of 25 elephants living in four related
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Aftican Elephant Loxodonta africana Status: Vulnerable Map: Max. Size: The African elephant is the largest land dwelling animal and it reaches up to 24.0 feet in length and 11.5 feet in height at the shoulder‚ and weighs up to 22‚000 pounds. Max. age: The elephants grow several replacement sets of teeth until the age of about 70 years old. After their last set of teeth is replaced‚ the animal dies of starvation in the wild because it cannot feed correctly. Population Size in the Wild:
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In "The Elephant Vanishes Stories" by Haruki Murakami‚ he uses a mixture of fantasy and reality to engage the reader into the main idea of object or people disappearing. Most of his stories may seen as if they came from life but he adds mystery to each one of them when something is missing or vanishes and the circumstances around it becomes unreal. In "The Wind-Up Bird and Tuesday’s Women" Murakami starts off by surrounding the plot around a man who quits his job for no apparent reason at all‚
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types of elephant‚ the Asian elephant and the African elephant (although There are two types of elephant‚ the Asian elephant and the African elephant (although sometimes the African Elephant is split into two species‚ the African Forest Elephant and the African Bush Elephant). Elephants are the largest land-living mammal in the world. Both female and male African elephants have tusks but only the male Asian elephants have tusks. They use their tusks for digging and finding food. Female elephants are called
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On Eating Elephants When I was younger‚ I compared my grandfather to that of an elephant‚ 13 feet tall‚ 15‚400 pounds‚ and a heart weighing up to 46 pounds. A big‚ broad‚ vulnerable creature‚ towering over the rest of the family. Ten months of hairy cell leukemia‚ a rare strand of the already rare strand of chronic lymphotic leukemia claiming his body made him so small‚ just skin and bones. My best friend sat 205 miles away over Skype and asked: “How do you get rid of an elephant in a room?” I imagined
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Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant‚ published in 2014 in the Best American Nonrequired Reading‚ Wells Tower argues why anyone would want to shoot an elephant. Tower begins building his credibility with personal facts sources. He also cites convincing facts and statistics successfully appealing emotional appeals. Although trophy hunting is bad‚ many people still do it. I believe trophy hunting is bad and I think it should it stop. If there is less of trophy hunting‚ we will be able to save more animals
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Elephant culling is not bad‚ but it is actually good for Africa. Adult African elephants eat an enormous 130kg of food a day‚ and they eat anything. They trample crops grown by humans and eat them. This is devastating to an already starving African population. This is only one of the reasons to cull them. I personally feel that elephant culling is not even a choice for Africa‚ but a necessity. It is a necessity for Africa because if the elephant population gets too big‚ Africa’s biodiversity will
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