Everyone knows about elephants, large animals that are found in many sights or zoos. Elephants are among the animals that are commonly used for recreation. Elephants have significant benefits and invaluable to human life ecologically, economically, and social-cultural. Elephants can cheer up people with their actions. Moreover, elephants can help humans to do hard works.
An elephant weighing up to three to five tons can help humans do the job with ease. Currently, there are two species of elephants in Indonesia, namely the Sumatran elephant and the Kalimantan elephant. The Kalimantan elephant has a rounder body, whereas the Sumatran elephant is slimmer. Kalimantan elephant also has bigger ears. Also, the ivory of the Kalimantan elephant is straight, while the ones from the Sumatran elephant is curved. Currently, elephant species in Indonesia are threatened with extinction. Many elephants are in danger because of the large number of poachers who are targeting the high valuable ivory on the market.
Elephants are very kind and helpful animals, whether in the herd, in other animals, or humans. Elephants are also very loving animals. When a baby elephant is sad, the whole family will come and stroke the baby with its trunk. But elephants can also get angry if humans keep killing their species only to get their ivory. Therefore, we must love elephants and not take their ivory at will.
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