Why should we protect the elephants?
Table of Contents
- 1 Why should we protect the elephants?
- 2 What is the best way to protect elephants and rhinos?
- 3 How can we save elephants in India?
- 4 How do elephants protect themselves from prey?
- 5 Why are elephants the best animal?
- 6 How do elephants defend?
- 7 What is being done to protect the elephants?
- 8 How do Elephants use their ears to keep cool?
Why should we protect the elephants?
Elephants are important to save, not just so future generations can grow up with them, but because they’re a keystone species – that means they have an important role to play in the lives of other animals within their habitats.
What is the best way to protect elephants and rhinos?
Direct species protection work includes training and equipping rangers, community scouts, and eco-guards to monitor and protect elephant and rhino populations, deploying dog-and-handler units to track down poachers, helping governments manage protected areas, and conducting wildlife censuses.
How do elephants protect themselves?
Elephants also use loud trumpet noises with their trunks to protect themselves. They make extremely loud rumbles. The sound measured is around 105 dB. Yet, most commonly, elephants use their long tusks to attack anyone that threatens them.
How do you take care of elephants?
Provide the elephant with plenty of water-up to 200 liters a day. Supply more water in hot temperatures. Measure the water consumption, and make sure they are taking in extra water when it’s hot. Keep the elephant’s drinking time stress-free to prevent any fighting or other aggressive behaviors.
How can we save elephants in India?
Protecting Elephant Habitats
- Effective mechanisms for securing corridors and legal protection.
- Restoring degraded and lost habitats.
- Protecting habitats – beyond the Protected Area mechanism.
- Effective mechanism to prevent elephant poaching/trade.
- Minimizing dependency of people on forest.
How do elephants protect themselves from prey?
Only the largest pack animals would be able to eat an elephant. Elephants are able to defend themselves and can hurt any animal that attacks them by trampling them or hitting them with their large tusks.
Which one is protected area for elephants?
Elephant Reserves
| Elephant Range | Elephant Reserve | Total Area (Sq. Km) |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 3312 | |
| Eastern-South Bank Landscape | 12. Dihing-Patkai ER | 937 |
| (Assam – Arunachal) | 13. South Arunachal ER | 1957.5 |
| Total | 2894.5 |
How can we protect elephants?
To get there, we employ five major strategies:
- Prevent illegal killing.
- Protect elephant habitat.
- Monitor elephant numbers, poaching rates, and threats to elephant habitat at key sites in Africa and Asia.
- Reduce ivory trafficking.
- Reduce the demand for ivory.
Why are elephants the best animal?
They are highly intelligent animals with complex emotions, feelings, compassion and self-awareness (elephants are one of very few species to recognize themselves in a mirror!). The gestation period of an elephant is 22 months. That’s almost 2 years, the longest pregnancy of any mammal!
How do elephants defend?
Elephant tusks serve many purposes. These extended teeth can be used to protect the elephant’s trunk, lift and move objects, gather food, and strip bark from trees. They can also be used for defense. During times of drought, elephants even use their tusks to dig holes to find water underground.
How do elephants protect themselves from their enemies?
Elephants use their trunks and their tusks to protect themselves from predators. They also use loud noises to scare away threats. Adult elephants have very few predators, except humans, due to their massive size and superior strength. Humans poach the massive animals for their ivory tusks, which are very valuable in some cultures.
What you can do to help elephants?
Another way to help elephants is to give your support to those institutions, organisations, projects and individuals who work to better understand, conserve and protect elephants, whether this be through applied conservation, education, advocacy or basic research.
What is being done to protect the elephants?
Asian elephants are a legally protected species in China. Hundreds of police officers assisted by drones have been monitoring the intrepid animals, while wildlife officials are trying to steer them away from populated areas with food baits and roadblocks involving hundreds of trucks.
How do Elephants use their ears to keep cool?
One thing is that they can cool themselves down when they are hot. The blood flowing through the ears is close to the outside of the elephant body, and heat can be released as they flap them about. Some scientists also think that the big ears may funnel sound into their inner ear for better hearing.