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An elephant's habitat is dependent on them as are the lives of every creature in their territory. In fact, elephants have been proven to have a dramatic impact on the weather.
Scientific studies have shown that, in places where elephants have been eliminated, drought has ensued and the land has turned to desert. Other animal populations have disappeared. And uncontrolled fires ravage the land.
Dung beetles, an important part of the food chain, subsist solely on elephant excrement. Dung beetles, on the other hand, are critical to the diet of many other creatures. Other large herbivores rely on the elephant to find water because elephants are able to not only smell and locate underground water, but they can smell water over large distances. They dig down into the earth and free water, so that when they're done, other animals can move in and drink.
Elephants keep grasses, bushes, and trees pruned and trimmed resulting in healthier vegetation. This keeps dense vegetation from soaking up all the water thus making it available to other plants and animals. Because elephants are nomadic and migrate routinely through the year, the land regenerates in their absence.
Seeds and other plant reproductive parts are passed into the land from elephant manure as another way of replenishing the earth.
This is an accurate, but incomplete and simplistic look at the role elephants play and what their loss would mean to the world. Their extinction would be a worldwide catastrophe, possibly resulting in the extinction of mankind. At a very minimum, it would drastically change the world as we know it and alter our way of life.
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∙ 12y agothey pull up trees and damage the land of the farmers and there crops but things like bees have been known to keep the elephants awayy
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∙ 12y agoThey make great chairs.
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∙ 11y agoTheir dung creates fertilizer
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Are African elephants asexual or sexual?
All elephants are sexual, including African Elephants.
Which has larger ears African or Asian elephants?
African elephants
What animal comes in the African and Indian varieties?
elephants come in african and indian varieties you can get african elephants and indian elephants.
How much hair do African Elephants have?
How much hair do African Elephants have?
What is the population of African elephants?
There are about 470,000 living African elephants at this time.
African elephants are larger than Asian elephant?
Yes, african elephants are slightly larger than asian elephants. Male African elephants reach about 4m whereas male Asian elephants reach 3.5m.
What environment do zebra's live in?
Zebras are most commonly found in the savanna's of Africa among elephants and other African animals
What type of animal are Elephants?
There are two major species which are the African elephant and the Asian elephant.There are also Sri Lankan, Indian, Borneo pygmy, Forest, African savanna, and Sumatran elephants.
Are there Elephants in the African Forest?
Yes there are elephants there.
Where Can You Get An Elephant?
You get African Elephants and Indian Elephants. African Elephants can be found in Africa. Indian Elephants can be found in India. You might try your local zoo.
Are african elephants endangered?
African Elephants are endangered because hunters are killing them for their ivory and other body parts. It is estimated that by 2020 African elephants will be extinct.
Why don't African and Asian elephants live as long in zoos than they do in the wild?
Because they are not in their natural environment. No matter what the zoo does it will never be as good for the elephant as its natural environment
