Assalamualaikum w.b.t. & salam untuk belako2...
Che'gu terpanggil untuk bercerita tentang GAJAH. Gajah adalah spesis terancam (endangered species) kt dunia sekarang ni. Nama saintifik gajah ialah
Elephas maximus.
Kenapa Che'gu nk cerita pasal gajah?Teringat. Teringat pasal kejadian masa cuti Tahun Baru Cina baru2 ni. On the way back to Ipoh from Terengganu, che'gu n family lalu ikut Gerik. Masa kt lalu ikut banjaran Titiwangsa tu, ternampak seekor gajah kt tepi bukit berhampiran dgn jalan utama. Ada juga 2,3 kenderaan berhenti tengok gajah tu. Che'gu pn berhenti sama, nk tengok. Tiba2 datang beberapa org renjer PERHILITAN dgn Hilux, bawa batang pisang. Rupanya mereka nk beri gajah tu makan.
Bila risik2 pada sorg renjer tu, rupanya gajah tu injured. Gajah tu kena serang ngan harimau. Che'gu tengok dkt2 masa gajah tu datang untuk makan, ada kesan cedera pada bahagian punggung & ekornya. Kesian.
Gajah Asia (Elephas maximus) merupakan salah satu dari tiga spesies gajah yang masih tinggal. Spesies ini dianggap terancam, dengan antara 25,600 dan 32,750 ekor yang masih hidup liar [1].
Sub spesies gajah Asia adalah seperti berikut :-
Jangka masa mengandung adalah di antara 20-22 bulan dan jangka hayat hidupnya adalah dari 60 hingga 80 tahun.
Gajah betina dan anaknya hidup dalam kumpulan kecil manakala gajah jantan lebih suka hidup bersendirian. Gajah biasanya berehat ketika cuaca panas. Setiap kumpulan mempunyai kawasan mereka tersendiri untuk mencari makanan. Mereka suka berenang dan mandi di sungai.
This is the information about an elephant, from Wikipedia.
Elephants are large land mammals of the order Proboscidea and the family Elephantidae. There are three living species: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant (also known as the Indian Elephant). Other species have become extinct since the last ice age, the Mammoths, dwarf forms of which may have survived as late as 2,000 BC,[1] being the best-known of these. They were once classified along with other thick skinned animals in a now invalid order, Pachydermata.
Elephants are the largest land animals.[2] The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kilograms (260 lb). They typically live for 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.[3] The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. This male weighed about 12,000 kilograms (26,000 lb),[4] with a shoulder height of 4.2 metres (14 ft), a metre (yard) taller than the average male African elephant.[5] The smallest elephants, about the size of a calf or a large pig, were a prehistoric species that lived on the island of Crete during the Pleistocene epoch.[6]
The elephant has appeared in cultures across the world. They are a symbol of wisdom in Asian cultures and are famed for their memory and intelligence, where they are thought to be on par with cetaceans[7] and hominids.[8] Aristotle once said the elephant was "the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind"[9]. The word "elephant" has its origins in the Greek ἐλέφας, meaning "ivory" or "elephant".[10]
Healthy adult elephants have no natural predators
[11], although lions may take calves or weak individuals.
[12][13] They are, however, increasingly threatened by human intrusion and poaching. Once numbering in the millions, the African elephant population has dwindled to between 470,000 and 690,000 individuals according to a March 2007 estimate.
[14] While the elephant is a protected species worldwide, with restrictions in place on capture, domestic use, and trade in products such as
ivory,
CITES reopening of "one time" ivory stock sales, has resulted in increased poaching. Certain African nations report a decrease of their elephant populations by as much as two-thirds, and populations in certain protected areas are in danger of being eliminated
[15] Since recent poaching has increased by as much as 45%, the current population is unknown (2008)
