Elephant+Period+3


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 * Research:**

1. Where does your animal live, and what are its characteristics? Locate your animal’s habitat (Where does it live? Does it migrate?) Include all subspecies or varieties of your animal Identify at least 10 characteristics that will give an in-depth, accurate description of your animal

Asian Elephant: India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China (extinct in wild), Malaysia, Indonesia, and Borneo. (Open grasslands, marshes, savannahs, and forests) African: In Africa south of the Sahara, Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests, Flooded Grasslands and Savannas, Miombo woodlands, Acacia savannas.

The subspecies of the elephant are the Asian and African Elephant

10 Characterists: Asian: smooth skin, small flat ears, males have tusks, less rings on trunk and its hard, eats grass, 3000-6000kg, freckled skin, one finger protection on trunk, two rounded domes on head.

African: wrinkled skin, big wide ears, both F &amp; M have tusks, lots of rings on trunks and its less hard, eats leaves, 4000-7000kg, two finger like protections on trunk, one rounded dome on head.

2. Where and why is your animal endangered? Locate where it is endangered (might not be endangered in all its habitats) Identify the factors, environmental and/or anthropogenic (caused by man) that cause it to be endangered Provide statistics and other facts related to its endangerment

Endangered in all of its habitats, for the following reasons. The main endangerment to Asian elephants is loss of habitat, poaching is less of a problem because, unlike African elephants, only rarely do males grow tusks and females don’t. African elephants are endangered due to loss of habitat and poaching. Demand for ivory, combined with habitat loss from our human settlement, has led to a dramatic decline in the elephant population in the last few decades.

3. Where is your animal in captivity and/or conserved? Locate at least two zoos and/or conservation centers where the animal is held.

The Atlanta zoo Smithsonian National zoological park in DC IEF location (northern Kenya) Tennessee Elephant sanctuary Oregon Zoo Blackpool Zoo San Diego Zoo Cleveland Metropark Zoo Prey Proseth Elephant Conservation Community, Cambodia Manyara National Park

4. What is being done to restore your animal’s populations? Where is it being done? 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) Identify the experts, leaders, and/or groups guiding the conservation

In Africa and Asia • Lectures and speeches • Traveling museums • Enforcing existing laws • Create natural corridors to connect isolated populations so that they can exchange genes • Establish corporations between neighboring countries to ensure uninterrupted habitats, especially, don’t get interrupted

Outline any research and efforts to conserve the population

Female African elephant at the Atlanta Zoo.
 * Photos**

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 * Videos

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Bibliography (All Resources Used)**

http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/elephant.html http://www.upali.ch/differences_en.html http://www.elephantconservation.org/AsProject2008.php http://www.bagheera.com/inthewild/van_anim_elephant.htm http://www.elephantsanctuary.org/default2.asp http://www.wwf.org/ http://www.zooatlanta.org/home.htm http://www.clemetzoo.com/whats_new/elephant_paint.asp [|http://www.elephantconservation.org/As_CambodiaConserve.php http://www.flickr.com/photos/kouks/449654345/] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjtrdpSwEUY

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