Elephant+Period+5


 * Group Members: Kyler Allen and Andrew Siegel**


 * How Will We Work Together:**


 * Research:**

Locate your animal’s habitat (Where does it live? Does it migrate?)
African elephants live only in Africa south of the Sahara. Asian elephants live in parts of India and Southeast Asia. They live in habitats ranging from rain forests to savannas. Most elephants have a daily schedule, at the beginning of the day they will go to a water source. Then they would return to their spot and eat for a while.

Include all subspecies or varieties of your animal
African elephants Asian elephants

Identify at least 10 characteristics that will give an in-depth, accurate description of your animal
Intelligent, large, strong, easy to tame, good swimmers, slow, loving, peaceful, emotional, and timid.

Locate where it is endangered (might not be endangered in all its habitats)
An elephant habitat south of the Zambezi River is home to many African elephants. There used to be a decreasing amount of elephants, but now laws have been passed to stop poaching of African and Asian elephants. It is still endangered but the population is growing.

Identify the factors, environmental and/or anthropogenic (caused by man) that cause it to be endangered
People kill them for their ivory tusks. Also people are settling on the elephants land and they are losing their habitats.

Provide statistics and other facts related to its endangerment
In the 1970’s, an about 1,300,000 elephants lived in Africa. Today, there are only 470,000 to 690,000.

Locate at least two zoos and/or conservation centers where the animal is held.
Zoo Atlanta has three female African elephants, Dottie, Tara, and Kelly. Their habitat contains a large pond where they can bath. The Elephant Sanctuary in Nashville, Tennessee.

Locate where research is done on your animal and where efforts are underway to conserve its population (Note: It may be that this is done at the same location(s) you identified in #3)
There are laws that forbid elephant hunting in national parks and in reserves, and they limit the number that sport hunters may kill outside these areas. Sport hunting can usually be controlled, but poachers with automatic weapons can kill thousands of elephants yearly.

Identify the experts, leaders, and/or groups guiding the conservation
All trade in ivory and other elephant products was banned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1989.

Outline any research and efforts to conserve the population
The International Elephant Foundation (IEF) supports and operates conservation and education programs of Asian and African elephants.

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 * Photos**

By: TheLizardQueen By: Iain Rendle


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Bibliography (All Resources Used)**

World Book Online www.worldbookonline.com Encyclopedia Britannica www.school.eb.com The Encyclopedia of Mammals by: international experts