The broken nose family that "ran away from home" last year is still wandering. Some netizens said that they are carrying out a "walk-and-go trip", but the eating, drinking, living and traveling of this trip are the responsibility of humans, and they only need to enjoy it with peace of mind.
Compared with the African forest elephant and the African grassland elephant, the Asian elephant has two "big bags" on its head, and the Asian elephant is smaller and has smaller ears.
Although Asian elephants are not as large as African elephants, Asian elephants have a large appetite, eating about 30 to 60 kilograms of food a day and needing about 100 pounds of water.
Don't look at their appetite is very large, in fact many plants rely on their feeding to spread, so what is going on?
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Because elephants are large, the consumption of energy is also very large, coupled with their digestive ability is not strong, so they spend about 16-18 hours a day to eat, a lot of eating time occupies their daily life, so we often see elephants "eating" the scene.
Of course, elephants eat about 17 hours a day, so there's not much time left for them to sleep. But elephants don't seem to need much sleep, just 2 hours a day is enough, and sometimes they stay up all night. Asian elephants prefer to sleep on their stomachs, while African elephants prefer to sleep standing up.
Don't look at the elephants eat enough food, but the elephants' digestion ability is not strong, they eat, only about 40% of the food they eat can be digested, the rest of the food will be excreted. This digestive system can be described as a "seeder" for plants. Because elephants have weak digestion, many food seeds are still active after they are ingested by elephants. Elephants, on the other hand, have a high demand for food, and they travel far away every day to feed, so plant seeds can take the elephant's train and follow the elephant to sow farther away, thus spreading their offspring farther away.
In addition, elephant manure is rich in organic matter, which is a very good fertilizer for plants, so elephants are a very important part of the local ecology.
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In our culture, elephants and "auspicious" are often associated, which is why elephants eat all the way, destroy farmland, destroy fish ponds, but the villagers are not angry, but they happily welcome elephants to their hometowns.
But in areas where elephants are often active, local farmers have strained relations with elephants, especially in India. This is because elephants are larger, and females and cubs usually live in groups, so much so that they have a very large demand for food and a large demand for habitat area.
In addition, elephants also have higher environmental requirements, although Asian elephants prefer to live in forests, but their main food is grasses, that is, the denser the forest, the less food they will eat. If the forest area is small, their habitat will also be reduced, causing them to enter the area of human activity.
In addition, the vegetation in the forest will also change with the change of seasons, during the dry season, the total energy in the forest is reduced, the elephant's food source is relatively scarce, at this time they may leave the forest and come to the place where humans live.
The crops grown by humans are basically the food that elephants love to eat, and the high density of plants in the farmland allows elephants to obtain enough food without effort, plus elephants have an amazing memory, so that farmers living in elephants' habitats often suffer from elephants destroying farmland.
In China, the farmland destroyed by elephants is usually compensated by the state, while in other countries, the losses caused by elephants are usually paid by farmers, and now some environmental organizations will set damages, but in many places, because elephants destroy farmland, it still leads to frequent conflicts between people and elephants, and even deliberately hurts elephants.
Others can harm elephants because of their tusks, putting elephants in crisis.
However, nowadays, China's hunting ban is so strict, and elephants have many beautiful meanings in our country, so elephants are quite comfortable in our country. This collective trip of the Broken Nose Family is more like a wave of advertisements for elephants, so that we can all get to know elephants and understand elephants at a further distance, so as to protect elephants.