An Endangered Animal

The African elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the largest living animal and weighs up to 5400 kg. it in habits the Savannah, brush, forest, rivers, valleys and semi-dessert regions of Africa south of the Sahara dessert. Besides it's greater size, it differs from the Asian Elephant in having larger earsand tusks, a sloping forehead, and "two" fingers at the tip of it's trunk, compared to only one in the Asian species. As vegetarians, elephants require much food, sometimes consuming more than 225 kg of plant matter a day. Their trunk is employed to pull branches off trees, uproot grass, pluck fruit and to place food on their mouths. In both sexes, the two incisor teeth of the upper jaw grow to form tusks and it is for the ivory, used at one time in the manufacture of piano keys, billiard balls and other objects that hunters have slaughtered thousands of this magnificent animal.
Think of it this piece of art from GOD is already endangered and maybe in the future will be extinct. Are we humans bothered?! I guess, not. We are just always thinking of our own good. this African elephant didn't harm us and just lives as it was in the past hundred years yet we are harming them.
This animal made history as it is stated above, the largest living land animal. Let us also think that they are free to live in this world... It was endangered now because its incisor teeth which is ivory was used in making piano keys and billiard balls. Why of all materials that we have in this world is used the incisor teeth of this animal?! Is it because it is much better from all other materials?! We never think that if we were in their situation, will be happy?! Of course, NOT!!! Let the animal live as they used to be.
For me I predicted that it is possible that this animal will be extinct in the near future because people are always thinking about themselves. I just want to say to those people who are buying things that are made by this animal STOP BUYING it! because if their are no persons who are buying it their will be no manufacturers. Hope that we humans stop this... In simple ways let us save the endangered animals.


-Angelou Claudine C. Salvador