Journal created:
on 14 July 2005 (#7731094)
Updated:
on 31 December 2007
Name:
The Elephant Brigade
Membership:
Moderated
Posting Access:
All Members
A Place To Share, A Place To Care!
This community is designed to provide an open forum for people to share their thoughts and feelings in relation to the world. We welcome anything political, social, environmental, personal, or any other way that can be tied in to the threat to the community of life and/or quality of life. Humor and silliness are welcome too! And of course, absolutely anything elephant related!
Membership is moderated via requests, and posting is limited to members only in an effort to keep this a safe place. Also to aid in maintaining a peaceful community, if you are added and cause trouble, you will be removed. Trouble constitutes things like flaming, or throwing insults of any kind.
Otherwise, general conduct rules apply. Be nice to each other, and such.
Do you wish that you could change the world for the better?
You might rather be an elephant, because that's exactly what they do!
It seems inevitable that as long as we humans impose our own theories on how to best govern nature, there will be a difference of opinion of "animal" management. Over the course of evolution, the elephant as we know it today has evolved into a strong forced bulldozer that has the power to modify the landscape it resides in. For elephants their effect on the landscape is often considered destruction, but is it?
The answer to this question partially depends on your preconceived views of "nature". If you see nature as something static and in a particular way then any change no matter how minute will amount to destruction. An interesting statistic found in the book African Elephants: A Celebration of Majesty about this issue; a general estimation shows that Man is clearing more forests in one day that all the elephants in Africa will 'destroy' within one year. Put in perspective, the effect that elephants have on their environment may not be as serious are we have been led to believe.
Unfortunately for some, our narrow opinion of seeing elephants as only living bulldozers of destruction is far from the case. As much as 80 percent of what elephants consume is returned to the soil as barely digested highly fertile manure.
Read more here.
Did you know...
-Elephants can swim using their trunks and a snorkel!
-Elephants drink using their trunk as a hose to their mouth.
-An elephant's trunk has 40,000 muscles!
-There are two species of Elephants, the African and Asian.
-Elephants form matriarchal families, and calves are raised by the whole group.
-Males are usually solitary, though have been known to travel in groups of two or three.
-Elephants laugh, cry, show effection to each other, grieve for their dead, and are highly intelligent.
-Elephants are related to manatees.
Elephants are an endangered species. They are hunted in Africa and Asia for their ivory trunks, as well as meat in some parts. The spread of human settlement and agriculture is also a threat to Elephant survival.
Important Links:
Save The Elephants
World Wildlife Fund
African Wildlife Foundation
The Elephant Sanctuary
Circus Elephants
This community is designed to provide an open forum for people to share their thoughts and feelings in relation to the world. We welcome anything political, social, environmental, personal, or any other way that can be tied in to the threat to the community of life and/or quality of life. Humor and silliness are welcome too! And of course, absolutely anything elephant related!
Membership is moderated via requests, and posting is limited to members only in an effort to keep this a safe place. Also to aid in maintaining a peaceful community, if you are added and cause trouble, you will be removed. Trouble constitutes things like flaming, or throwing insults of any kind.
Otherwise, general conduct rules apply. Be nice to each other, and such.
Do you wish that you could change the world for the better?
You might rather be an elephant, because that's exactly what they do!
It seems inevitable that as long as we humans impose our own theories on how to best govern nature, there will be a difference of opinion of "animal" management. Over the course of evolution, the elephant as we know it today has evolved into a strong forced bulldozer that has the power to modify the landscape it resides in. For elephants their effect on the landscape is often considered destruction, but is it?
The answer to this question partially depends on your preconceived views of "nature". If you see nature as something static and in a particular way then any change no matter how minute will amount to destruction. An interesting statistic found in the book African Elephants: A Celebration of Majesty about this issue; a general estimation shows that Man is clearing more forests in one day that all the elephants in Africa will 'destroy' within one year. Put in perspective, the effect that elephants have on their environment may not be as serious are we have been led to believe.
Unfortunately for some, our narrow opinion of seeing elephants as only living bulldozers of destruction is far from the case. As much as 80 percent of what elephants consume is returned to the soil as barely digested highly fertile manure.
Read more here.
Did you know...
-Elephants can swim using their trunks and a snorkel!
-Elephants drink using their trunk as a hose to their mouth.
-An elephant's trunk has 40,000 muscles!
-There are two species of Elephants, the African and Asian.
-Elephants form matriarchal families, and calves are raised by the whole group.
-Males are usually solitary, though have been known to travel in groups of two or three.
-Elephants laugh, cry, show effection to each other, grieve for their dead, and are highly intelligent.
-Elephants are related to manatees.
Elephants are an endangered species. They are hunted in Africa and Asia for their ivory trunks, as well as meat in some parts. The spread of human settlement and agriculture is also a threat to Elephant survival.
Important Links:
Save The Elephants
World Wildlife Fund
African Wildlife Foundation
The Elephant Sanctuary
Circus Elephants
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