head bobbing behaviour is not an normal behaviour in which the elephant would carry out on a daily basis in the wild as they would be in their natural habitat. You can manage this abnormal behaviour in many different ways such as trying to enrich the elephants enclosure with items and food which would stimulate the elephants mind and try to take their mind of whatever the situation is that they are trying to cope with. Captive wild elephants can be given toys and some other object which they might not
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hand-me-down‚ I mean any movie collected before 1994 that were originally bought for my siblings‚ but kept for me. Among this box of Disney gold was the classic 1940’s film‚ Dumbo. The movie Dumbo is about a young circus elephant named Jumbo Jr.‚ who was cruelly nicknamed Dumbo by four other elephants. He is ridiculed and picked on for his comically large ears‚ however those who mocked him are stunned into silence once they see his ears actually give him the ability to fly. By flapping his ears like wings‚ Dumbo
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A first example of animal abuse could be traced to the unfortunate case of elephant abuse. As told in the Huffington Post‚ an elephant collapsed after performing at a Ringling Brother’s circus on Sunday‚ August
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brown and long haired elephant that I saw in the book was different from the others elephants I had seen. Sometime after that‚ I learned that the strange looking animal was a mammoth. Mammoth‚ like mastodon‚ were prehistoric animals related to modern elephants. Although very similar in appearance‚ there was an amount of differences between mastodon and mammoth. One important thing mammoth and mastodon shared in common is that both of these prehistoric elephants managed to survive well
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Introduction: The exact reason for the Pleistocene extinction is still not known‚ this data implies that top-down forces and humans are the reason the extinction happened. This data is important because during the Anthropocene humans continue to put animals at risk for another extinction. The authors used data from the Pleistocene and recent data to show that high rates of predation and humans could have lead to the extinction. Both carnivores and humans caused the extinction‚ because both
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concluded that “the keeping of naturally wide-ranging carnivores should be either fundamentally improved or phased out” (PETA). b. Animals that are captured and held captive can affect them emotionally. i. Recent research has found that when baby elephants are taken from their herds‚ it takes an emotional toll on the baby and its family (Henn). ii. Some animals can get really depressed and unhappy and try to escape. 1. For example‚ a gorilla named Jabari tried to escape by jumping over walls and moats
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states that “The stuffed African elephant on its circular dais in the rotunda was composed of billions of skin cells and tiny cilia‚ and its ivory tusks wore an unfalsifiable brown patina of age.” (73) Young Michael Byers uses very descriptive words to share his admiration with us. How amazing is what he is witnessing‚ the elephant is really old and the brown patina stands as proof of its age. But as an adult he merely says that “There were ten million African elephants in 1930‚ and that now there are
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The Complexity of the Animal Mind Do animals think? This question has been debated for centuries and no clear answer has yet to be decided. By looking at television‚ comic books‚ and children’s literature it would seem that animals do think and act intelligently. The fictional characters are given human movements‚ behavior‚ and language. In contrast‚ science‚ philosophy‚ and many other academic fields do not believe animals to think‚ feel‚ or behave intelligently. Animals are merely machines
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was as thick and pointy as a tip of a samosa and her lips were fat and red as blood. She had a triple chin. She looked like a vampire‚ a fat ugly one though who had no fashion sense. Watching her in front of me was as horrendous as watching a baby elephant but the moment she spoke all the hopes shattered and then you realize…your history teacher is a chipmunk too! I hated history thanks to the football that used to teach and then the classroom. I had never been in such a cozy classroom. The walls
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figures for the value of illegal wildlife trade. Experts at TRAFFIC‚ the wildlife trade monitoring network‚ estimate that it runs into hundreds of millions of dollars.” (2015). Tigers‚ Elephants‚ Rhinos‚ and even sea creatures like turtles are just a few animals that are being poached for this trade. The elephants for their ivory and Rhinos for their horns‚ is all that a poacher is after and metric tons of the stuff is being seized. The question to that is‚ how much is getting through that nobody
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