Endangered animals: African Elephant

By Nature Lover | Endangered animals | 3 Apr 2019


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Elephants are the largest living land animal. Are intelligent animals like apes, dolphins, and magpies. They need 70 000 calories every day (50 gallons of water and 220 pounds of food). Their tusks are large teeth and can length 6 feet and weight 50 pounds. Their herds wander through 37 countries in Africa.

 

STATUS: Vulnerable

POPULATION: 415 000 (in the wild)

CURRENT POPULATION TREND: Increasing

BIGGEST THREATS:

  • illegal wildlife trade
  • habitat loss and fragmentation
  • human-elephant conflict

 

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SCIENTIFIC NAME: Loxodonta africana

WEIGHT: 2,5 - 7 tons

SIZE: 8 - 13 feet

HABITATS: Tropical/Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests, Flooded Grasslands, and Savannahs, Acacia savannahs, Miombo woodlands...

 

THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT FAMILY:

  • African Elephant
  • Savanna Elephant
  • Forest Elephant

 

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Exist a high risk of extinction African elephant in the wild.

 

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