Mira's Science Blogs

This is our group's infographic:  https://infograph.venngage.com/ps/6H1GypTENYU/african-forest-elephant-mira-joelle-gurpreet This is our group's website:  https://jkafeety0705.wixsite.com/african-elephant Summary: African forest elephants are very important to both the ecosystem that they live in and the African tribes that live there. Elephants help with many things from soil condition, to Africa's culture. The elephant droppings help improve the soil condition and crops in Africa. They also help the ecosystems with seed dispersal for animals such as monkeys and birds, who eat the seeds and nuts from the elephant droppings. Africa's elephants also help other animals survive by pulling down trees and bushes, which help create clear areas for other animals and organisms to live in. These elephants help tribes, as well as other organisms, access clean water by creating water holes to drink from. As well as being important to the ecosystem and organisms in its en...

https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/photos/1019/images/story_full_width/Forest_Elephant_7.30.2012_hero_and_circle_HI_8480.jpg?1345583833 Summary: The African forest elephant is an herbivore, and commonly eats leaves, fruit, and bark. African forest elephants range from 2.5 - 3 meters in height, weighing from 50-200 pounds. Their color is usually brown and grey, and even though other coloring is possible, it is very rare. They live for about 60-70 years, which is quite a lot compared to some other forest animals. The African Forest Elephant lives in Central and Southern Africa, traveling through the forests and grasslands searching for food and water.  Why Endangered: The populations of these Forest Elephants is decreasing because of illegal poaching. The poachers kill the elephants for their ivory tusks to sell. They are also decreasing because of habitat destruction such as deforestation, which results in less food and shelter, which they need to survive. According to d...

https://68.media.tumblr.com/3f0fa3bf5a93bda5aabc96fa48d226e5/tumblr_olw95gCcpu1vmlgf6o6_540.jpg Summary: Think about all of the ways that you have interacted with organisms today. Interactions between organisms happen every day in many different ecosystems. It is important that we understand and learn about the relationships with organisms so that we can understand more about ecosystems and how they work. These interactions are very important for many species to survive and ecosystems would be much different without them. There are three types of interactions between organisms. The first one is predator/prey, or predation. This happens when one organism consumes (or eats) another organism. This is a win-lose relationship where on organism benefits and the other does not. An example of predation would be between a bear and a fish. The bear benefits because it has more energy which it needs to survive, and the fish does not benefit. Another relationship is called competiti...