Life with the Elephants

Elephants represent strength and good fortune. They also symbolize health and happiness and are thought to promote spiritual wellbeing in our daily lives. Elephants are strong and nurturing, they are loyal to their family and are determined and protective.

In this class we will learn the basics on the different species; body structure, physiology, eating habits, environment, family structure, social behaviors, mating, reproduction, and rearing their young.

Elephants impact the environment; planting trees, digging wells, changing the world around them which is why they are called a “keystone species”. We will learn how they interact with humans, their current status, threats against them, and what we can do. The Cincinnati Zoo elephants project is to be completed in 2024.

Recorded March 23, 2023
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