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If I were an elephant, I would want people to know that I am a large but sensitive creature. We are very family-oriented and live in groups of ten or so with a mixture of related females and young calves with one female elephant in charge. Our calves will usually stay with us till they are at least three years old. They are the focus of our attention for that time when they are old enough to go out on their own or have their own young and stay with the family. The male elephants will live by themselves or with other males. We are very smart with proven self-awareness and cognition similar to apes and dolphins. We can remember things very well. We are kind and powerful and we live only by eating plants. In the wild we can live up to 70 years.
If I were an elephant I would know that we are rapidly being eliminated as a species. While our numbers have been in the millions for centuries upon centuries, we can now be counted in the tens of thousands. We are primarily categorized into two groups: The African elephants and the Asian elephants. The Asian elephants are smaller and the numbers total in captivity and the wild may be less than 40,000 and are considered endangered. The African elephants have a number of different types but all can now be counted in the tens of thousands and are considered threatened. We have been threatened for many, many years. The Desert elephants among us may only number about 500. The only reason we are going away is because the greed and cruelty of men.
If I were an elephant I would see our lands to live on being slowly diminished. Our forests being taken away along with our savannas and other natural habitats. We need room to move and roam and live and we don’t do well when we have to live so close to humans. They are always a threat to us. Though there are laws to protect us in many places we are always in fear of the bad humans known as poachers. They will use whatever means they can to shoot us or poison us so that they can get the ivory from our tusks that so many people in the world still want from us. Sometimes they use our skins as well. Too often we are killed and left to rot as they remove the tusks and other parts from our bodies. We must always care for our young and protect them however we can, but most of the time we cannot stop the murders that take place. Hundreds of wildlife guides have also died trying to protect us from these poachers. If the kind people could take care of the poachers we would have a much better chance to live.
If I were an elephant I would face other threats and captivity as well. People somehow are still able to hunt us for sport and think that is okay even though our are numbers are so few. How can any caring being allow that to happen? They still take our young from us as well, sometimes before they are two years old. They take them to places where they can make money off of them, in zoos and circuses. In the zoos they say they want to study us, but how can you really study an unhappy creature confined to such a small area that is not very natural at all to us after you have separated us from our families. Elephants in zoos are not happy and can often be seen swaying back and forth with bodies and trunks. This is not a sign of contentment but of a longing to be free and with our families. We are often not treated as well as you might think. In circuses we are trained by harsh and cruel methods, beaten and prodded with hooks that resemble fireplace pokers sometimes until our bodies bleed. That is nothing compared to the pain that is on the inside. Why? For people’s pleasure and amusement. In transport from one place to another we can often chained up for up to a 100 hours at a time. There is no amusement or pleasure in that.
If I were an elephant I would simply want to live. I would want to live with my family free from fear of death or being stolen away to captivity. We are being killed off faster than we can reproduce. We have been a vital part of history and stories since the beginning. We are considered sacred by some, but why not all? Life is sacred to us and yet it is so easily diminished. Give us our freedom and give us our lands and we will take care of ourselves. We appreciate the nice humans who take care of us and try to protect us, but is there a way to keep the bad humans away from us? Left alone we can build our numbers back up, just as we always have. Appreciate us and study us from a distance, but let us live. We just want peace and freedom. We need your help and we want you to need us, not for what you can take from us, but for all that we bring to this world. That is our simple and hopeful wish.
If I were an elephant I would know that we are rapidly being eliminated as a species. While our numbers have been in the millions for centuries upon centuries, we can now be counted in the tens of thousands. We are primarily categorized into two groups: The African elephants and the Asian elephants. The Asian elephants are smaller and the numbers total in captivity and the wild may be less than 40,000 and are considered endangered. The African elephants have a number of different types but all can now be counted in the tens of thousands and are considered threatened. We have been threatened for many, many years. The Desert elephants among us may only number about 500. The only reason we are going away is because the greed and cruelty of men.
If I were an elephant I would see our lands to live on being slowly diminished. Our forests being taken away along with our savannas and other natural habitats. We need room to move and roam and live and we don’t do well when we have to live so close to humans. They are always a threat to us. Though there are laws to protect us in many places we are always in fear of the bad humans known as poachers. They will use whatever means they can to shoot us or poison us so that they can get the ivory from our tusks that so many people in the world still want from us. Sometimes they use our skins as well. Too often we are killed and left to rot as they remove the tusks and other parts from our bodies. We must always care for our young and protect them however we can, but most of the time we cannot stop the murders that take place. Hundreds of wildlife guides have also died trying to protect us from these poachers. If the kind people could take care of the poachers we would have a much better chance to live.
If I were an elephant I would face other threats and captivity as well. People somehow are still able to hunt us for sport and think that is okay even though our are numbers are so few. How can any caring being allow that to happen? They still take our young from us as well, sometimes before they are two years old. They take them to places where they can make money off of them, in zoos and circuses. In the zoos they say they want to study us, but how can you really study an unhappy creature confined to such a small area that is not very natural at all to us after you have separated us from our families. Elephants in zoos are not happy and can often be seen swaying back and forth with bodies and trunks. This is not a sign of contentment but of a longing to be free and with our families. We are often not treated as well as you might think. In circuses we are trained by harsh and cruel methods, beaten and prodded with hooks that resemble fireplace pokers sometimes until our bodies bleed. That is nothing compared to the pain that is on the inside. Why? For people’s pleasure and amusement. In transport from one place to another we can often chained up for up to a 100 hours at a time. There is no amusement or pleasure in that.
If I were an elephant I would simply want to live. I would want to live with my family free from fear of death or being stolen away to captivity. We are being killed off faster than we can reproduce. We have been a vital part of history and stories since the beginning. We are considered sacred by some, but why not all? Life is sacred to us and yet it is so easily diminished. Give us our freedom and give us our lands and we will take care of ourselves. We appreciate the nice humans who take care of us and try to protect us, but is there a way to keep the bad humans away from us? Left alone we can build our numbers back up, just as we always have. Appreciate us and study us from a distance, but let us live. We just want peace and freedom. We need your help and we want you to need us, not for what you can take from us, but for all that we bring to this world. That is our simple and hopeful wish.
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"If I was an animal I would be an elephant because it is so big and powerful and it doesn't have enemies in the jungle. Even the lion, the king of the jungle does not get close to an elephant. I would rather say the elephant is the queen of the jungle. It's so powerful that when it steps on an insect or a reptile it crushes it at once. If I could change to being an elephant, I would be the queen of the jungle!"
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