Interesting Facts About Elephants
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About Elephants
Studies have shown that elephants are alot smarter than we previously thought. They have longer memories, mourn their dead, use tools, can communicate with each other. and can recognize themselves in a mirror. ( read "Elephant Intelligence: Why Elephants Might Be as Smart as Humans").
This lens covers elaphant facts, videos that prove thier intelliegence plus info on how you can help the elephants.
An Elephant Painting!
Art Is A Sign Of Intelligence
Elephant Photos
Links To Help Elephants
- Elaphant Nature Foundation
- Elephant Nature Foundation is a non-profit organization which advocates and acts on behalf of the rights of Asian elephants in Thailand.Our mission is to increase awareness about the plight of the endangered Asian elephant, educate locals on the humane treatment of their elephants.
- Elephant Nature Park - Northern Thailand's conservation project for visitors.
- A park dedicated to the survival and development of Thai elephants. Set in a verdant rice growing valley and surrounded by jungle hillside the park is an ideal spot for a day of understanding these wonderful creatures. Visitors welcome!
- The Elephant Sanctuary : Hohenwald Tennessee
- The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee is a natural-habitat refuge where sick, old and needy elephants can once again walk the Earth in peace and dignity.
- Save the Elephants - Home
- Welcome to Search the Elephants
- AWF: Wildlife: Elephant
- More ways to help elephants.
- help elephants - Elephant Care International
- Sponsor an elephant.
Elephants Mourning
Some Interesting Elephant Facts
[Image is from here.]Although the African elephant is larger, the Asian elephant is more related to the ancient Mammoths.
An elephant drinks water by filling its truck and then putting the water in its mouth.
An elephant trunk is heavy even for an elephant! Sometimes an elephant will carry its trunk on its tusks.
Elephants not only have long memories but they play, laugh and cry.
The African elephant is the largest animal on land on earth.
An adult elephant can eat over 330 pounds of food a day.
An elephant can live for over 70 years.
An elephants trunk has over 100,000 different muscles which makes it very sensitive and strong.
Facts from this website.
About Elephants and How They Play
More Information On Elephants
- Elephant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Information on elephants written by users.
- Elephant Information Repository: Elephant Resources
- The best source on the internet for anything about elephants! This includes elephant links, elephant news, elephant conservation, and an in-depth look at the Elephant.
- African Elephant: Photos, Video, Facts, E-card, Map -- National Geographic Kids
- Kids' feature about elephants, with photographs, video, audio, fun facts, an e-mail postcard, and links to other animals.
- BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Elephants 'die earlier in zoos'
- Elephants living in zoos have a shorter lifespan than their wild or working relatives, a study suggests.
- BBC News | SCI/TECH | Why elephants don't forget
- A study of African elephants reveals that dominant females build up a social memory as they get older, helping the herd to survive.
- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Europe is 'fuelling ivory trade'
- Europe's thriving ivory market is threatening an increase in elephant poaching, reports the BBC's Zoe Murphy.
- Elephants Information, Facts, Photos, Videos, News -- National Geographic
- Learn about elephants, and get facts, information, photos, videos, news, and more from National Geographic.
- BBC News | SCI/TECH | Elephants eat their way to equilibrium
- A UK scientist says African elephant numbers are determined by their environment, not the other way round.
- Asian Elephants, Asian Elephant Pictures, Asian Elephant Facts - National Geographic
- Learn all you wanted to know about Asian elephants with pictures, videos, photos, facts, and news from National Geographic.
- African Elephants, African Elephant Pictures, African Elephant Facts - National Geographic
- Learn all you wanted to know about African elephants with pictures, videos, photos, facts, and news from National Geographic.
- BBC NEWS | Africa | Fears over Congo elephant killing
- The killing of rare elephants in DR Congo may be linked to South Africa lifting its culling ban, a conservationist says.
- BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Where should the elephants go?
- Conflicts between humans and elephants harm both parties - but careful management can reduce them.
- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Elephant 'had aquatic ancestor'
- Modern-day elephants are descended from an early ancestor that lived in water, say scientists.
- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists map elephant evolution
- Scientists say they have worked out the date the African and Asian elephants diverged, putting it at 7.6 million years ago.
- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | How elephants keep tabs on family
- Elephants keep track on up to 30 absent relatives by sniffing out their scent and building up a mental map of where they are, research suggests.
- BBC Nature - Beehives stop elephant crop-raids in Kenya, Africa
- Innovative beehive fences help a community in Kenya to successfully protect crops from elephants, say researchers.
- Carefully researched technique for elephants (beehives)
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Elephants and Bees Research
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY - UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
The Elephants and Bees Research Project is one of Save the Elephants' newest innovative programs designed to explore the natural world for solutions to human-elephant conflict. Led by DPhil - BBC - Earth News - Older female elephants are wiser matriarchs
- Elephants pay close attention to their elders when responding to a the threat of a predator, according to a study.
- Elephant attack problems in India
- It is festival time in Kerala, and Elephant owners are overburdening elephants with more and more work.. see how an elephant responds to all the atrocities t... [ Note: The number of attacks of angry elephants in India seems to prove a general lack of understanding of elephant intelligence and behavior by Indians - Also, the type of treatment of animals is probably the equivalent of Pakistan's, such treatment is better for donkeys not elephants ]
- BBC - Earth News - Elephants know how to co-operate
- Elephants understand the concept of co-operation and deduce when a task requires teamwork, footage reveals.
- BBC News - Elephant 'secret language' clues
- Researchers at San Diego Zoo have been studying what has been described as the secret language of elephants.
Revenge Of The Elephants
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Scientific Debate: Do Elephants Communicate With Sound?
Baby Elephants Playing
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MiddleSister
Jan 16, 2012 @ 8:34 pm | delete
- My youngest daughter looooves elephants. I'll post this to Facebook so she can see it.
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ColorPetGifts
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- Lovely lens with info about elephants- blessed and lensrolled to my elephant gifts lenses.
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Mar 31, 2011 @ 6:42 pm | delete
- Just saw the news about the CEO of Go Daddy happily shooting at Elephants and killing one, then acting all proud of it. Sad.
So I'm posting this link to an article where Namecheap are actively doing something to save the elephants, including donating funds to charity if you transfers your names there:
http://byebyegd.com/
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ElephantLover
Aug 19, 2010 @ 6:49 pm | delete
- ELEPHANT PAINTING is NOT done by intelligence, especially when realistic pictures are "painted." They are taught through abusive training to hold the brush with a nail up their trunk to get the finer strokes necessary for accuracy. Even when curling their trunk around a big brush, this is not something an elephant would choose to do - you might as well be seeing it do something equally unnatural like riding a bicycle. Never buy elephant painting, never go trekking as the seats hurt their spines, no matter how well the appearance of padding. And never buy ivory, of course. Abolish elephant slavery.
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Apr 8, 2010 @ 1:02 pm | delete
- This lens is awesome. I love it. I am going to tell my editors on my Thai News website to write something about this lens and probably feature it.
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