Last weekend, I went to San Diego Safari Zoo, and I saw my favorite animal elephant there. Unlike other animals, elephant has enormous size and stay at a large lawn. The tour guide told us that elephant are very smart and have good memories compare to most of other animal, for example, they taught elephant to do something, other elephant just watched and they will know how to do. It does not take people too much energy to train elephant. In addition, elephant value deep family bond and elephant always stay close as a group with their family. That is one of the big reason I like elephant; elephant usually is a very docile animal except when their family got attack then they will become very manic to protect their family. When I saw elephant at the zoo, the young always walk with an adult elephant, I think that is a very warm and sweet picture to see.
Elephant travel a lot between their habitats for foraging. They eat hundred pounds of food and drink 190 liter of water a day. However, elephant's habitat face threaten right now. As the climate change problem getting more serious, elephant's habitat is getting hotter and drier, which became a significant problem for them to find food. So here I want to call on people to make some actions to protect elephant's habitat.
Elephant has always been one of my favorite animals. And yes they are smart animals. I remember once I saw a video of an elephant painting with his trunk.
回复删除But it surprises me that their habitats is affected by global warming to this degree as I thought elephants were originally from Africa and they should be pretty resistant to heat and dry.
Elephant is an special animal, the reason is that in some Asian countries,such as Thailand and India, elephant is regarded as Bodhisattva in Buddhism, so it is a religious symbol. But in some countries people kill elephant to get the ivory, so the number of elephant decrease dramatically, the hunting should be stopped.
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