Since 2011, on August 12, we have celebrated World Elephant Day, which is dedicated to raising awareness, spreading knowledge and finding solutions for a better tomorrow for both wild elephants and elephants living in captivity (zoos, circuses, etc.). Elephants, which are one of the nine species of animals that masturbate in addition to humans, face many challenges, especially illegal hunting, which has greatly reduced their population and will soon become an endangered species. And we will not act like an elephant when we say that they are even threatened with extinction at this rate of killing. African elephants are currently a vulnerable species, while Indian elephants are an endangered species.
Cecil the Lion, a tragic hero, is a recent issue wild animals, which are dying out due to sport and illegal hunting, made the front pages of newspapers. Unfortunately, elephants are also on this list, trumpeters from the group of mammals, which are killed annually in Africa more than are born. your day World Elephant Day (World Elephant Day), are celebrating for the fourth year in a row August 12, although they don't have much to be happy about (in the last 50 years, their population has shrunk by 70 percent!). But hope remains, as many animal protection organizations fiercely fighting for their rights and exposing their vulnerability the biggest, the strongest and extremely bright land animals.
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Three types of elephants trample the earth namely in Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Indochina and in some places Indonesia, and their habitat is shrinking day by day, mainly due to deforestation. But let's end on a more positive note and look at the wonderful photos of these animals that have 40 thousand muscles only in the trunk (more than humans in the whole body), but elephants are 22 months pregnant!
Elephants can be artists too!
More information:
worldelephantday.org
