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Elephants
The largest land mammal on earth, elephants are divided into African Elephants and Asian Elephants. African Elephants have tusks and larger ears than Asian Elephants, and questions about all elephants should be asked in this category.
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What does the elephant represents?
In many cultures, the elephant represents grace, prosperity, power, loyalty and wisdom.
Is hunting Elephants against the law?
Elephants are sentient beings, who exist in family groups and need to remain in those family/social groups. When one is hurt or killed, the other elephants grieve and have behavior similar to homo sapiens. Elephant skins and tusks are protected in most countries, and cannot be legally traded internationally. The author of the rest of this article writes only from a monetary perspective, and limited viewpoint. There are many witnesses to elephants honoring and grieving for human beings who have helped them, and joyous reconciliations when being reunited with another elephant which they knew more than 15 years before. Human beings who want to profit from selling pieces of the corpse, or who get some pleasure from destroying a huge mammal, could try a different hobby or livelihood.
The concept of assignable ownership of wild animals is outdated.
The African elephant is a natural resource that lends itself to assignable ownership and that ownership, couples with benefits produced from hunting, provides an incentive for conservation. There are other uses of the African elephant, both legal and illegal, but the purpose of this article is conservation and elephant hunting.
Regulation has often been utilized as the final solution to conservation problems. In fact, conservation rarely directly results from unqualified regulation, because regulation restricts or removes ownership. Appropriate regulation limits use, but sets the boundaries for the implementation of management practices at the appropriate levels. That is why the victory for the elephant at the 1997 CITES Meeting in Harare was so significant; it did not preclude applied management; it made it a requirement.
Hunting of the African elephant by foreign tourists has a long-standing tradition and is one of the uses of choice by many African nations today. Africans were hunting elephants before Eastern peoples or Europeans arrived in Africa. Elephant hunting by foreigners generates both finances for management and with the emphasis on local people in management, it has increasingly begun to provide incentives to the people living with the wildlife.
We conserve only what we have incentives to conserve. Wildlife has three economic values. Legal value is the value assigned with regulated use. Illegal value would be the use outside of laws or regulation (for instance, poaching). No value means that the resource will effectively be ignored. Sadly, most evaluations of use focus on the negative impact of the use (the faulty precautionary principle), ignoring the impact of not using the resource. Any real evaluation must include those costs to the resource of not using it. Conservation practices require funding, and that funding must come from somewhere, to turn from a use providing benefits must be factored into any evaluation as a very real cost.
Elephant management requires determining the appropriate level of sustainable killing. With increased value of any resource, comes a responsibility, and more likely an imperative need for increased level of management. But conservation cannot (more appropriately put, will not) be perpetually performed in a financial vacuum. In a world beset by many demands for land, if a species is to survive, a use which can be sustained both economically and ecologically, provides independence that will favor survival in the most tumultuous of times.
Hunting of elephants by tourists is cost effective, profitable and easily monitored. The foreign hunter pays for all participation in the hunt, including government fees, and for taking the natural resource. A government representative is usually present. Animals are taken under a quota. The stakeholders in such an arrangement include the hunter, the professional hunter (guide), the regulatory agency (National Parks or Wildlife) and the people who live with the elephants (the community).
Imaginative approaches are being implemented in the different hunting countries such as Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE communities collecting data and setting their own harvest quotas. In South Africa, many ranches have their own herds of elephants. Other countries such as Cameroon, Botswana and Tanzania are implementing programs where hunting benefits communities. Tying in the management to those who benefit provides an appropriate monitoring loop in management.
In conservation, as in governmental structure, centralization reduces effectiveness. Since all ecological and economic systems are dynamic, good conservation is the ability of the management to adapt to that change. Local monitoring with the control to adapt to that change decreases response time. This results in a more appropriate level of adaptive management.
The elephant is a natural resource with assignable ownership. Foreign hunters are willing to convert that from an asset to capital in exchange for a cultural experience compatible with the history and use of the elephant. It is the responsibility of the hunter to demand an ethical experience and the professional hunter to provide such an experience. It is the responsibility of those charged with management to maintain the resource. It is the responsibility of the regulatory agencies, while maintaining appropriate boundaries, to minimize their restriction of management options for any dynamic resource.
International hunting of elephants will continue to be a realistic option for sustainable utilization. Under well managed conditions, it provides economic incentive for continued proper management, and this insures the survival of the elephant. And that by definition is conservation - the wise use of natural resources.
What would happen if you dropped a coin off the Empire State Building?
it would hit the ground, even if it hit some one the terminal velocity of a coin is not enough to kill them, it would just hurt like hell.
What it mean when you dream of a big elephant eating a baby elephant?
The elephants are symbols representing important issues in your life. The dream shows that what you think is a very big issue is about to be completely overtaken (engulfed, consumed) by a far greater issue. Whether the elephants represent problems, fears, relationships or opportunities depends on the emotions you experienced while the dream was occurring.
What does a white elephant signify?
It is an American colloquialism that signifies an oddball object that most people would have no use for, or want of.
How many elephants are there in Pakistan?
elephants are probably extinct in Pakistan.there could still be some migrating forested areas of the border but the wwf has put a fence on the Pakistan-India border so Indian animals cannot cross.in zoos,Karachi zoo/safari park has 4,Lahore zoo 1,and islamabad zoo has a pair of the endangered sumatran elephant.
Why is elephant develops faster in the mother's womb?
Faster than what? Elephant pregnancies last for approximately 22 months.
What is the selection pressure for elephants having large ears?
yes elephants have large ears to cool down.
How do you weigh an elephant without using a scale?
Our users give some suggestions:
- I would take an educated guess: Let's assume that the elephant has a similar chemical makeup to humans (70% of the body mass is water). Submerge the elephant in a tank of water to see how much water it displaces. Look up the mass-weight conversion for water. Multiply that by .70 and the volume displaced. The other 30% is presumeably organic material subject to the same laws of nature as we are. Research the mass constants for this material - bone, flesh, fat, and muscle. Use weighted coeficients available and referencing the species to estimate the weight of the remaining 30%.
- You could try constructing a primitive scale: Place a sturdy board over a fulcrum, so that it balances. Then put what you want to weigh on one end of the fulcrum and slowly add weight to the other side (use things you do know the weight of, or you'll end up back where you started). Once the board is balanced on the fulcrum again, you know that both sides equal roughly the same amount of weight (the weights' relative location on the board might cause some error, but not too much to worry about).
For an elephant, you'll need a board large enough to fit the elephant on one half of it, and sturdy enough to not warp or break under the weight. You'll also want a fulcrum large enough to span the width of the board, to increase stability. I'd recommend getting some friends who are comfortable with sharing their own weights to be the counterbalance, if that's not enough then find some heavy machinery that has its weight listed on it and try using that.
Do elephants pollinate rafflesia?
No. Rafflesia is pollinated by insects. They are attracted to the plant by its odour of rotting meat.
Big elephants can always can use scrmbled wggs?
Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants. If you can remember the rhyme then you'll always know how to spell because!
What is the different between an African and Asian elephant?
There are many differences between African and Asian elephants. Firstly, Asian elephants have more hair, they have a hump, their trunks have three fingers, and African elephants have two. Also, African elephants ears are the shape of Africa, and Asian elephants are smaller and the shape on India.
What is the only country in Africa that is located in both Africa and Asia?
Egypt. The Siniai peninsula is in Asia.
