Photo by Steve Garvie (Wikimedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThis elephant sub-species believes in getting exercise which is why they have a strict migration route.\u00a0 Okay, so maybe they don’t migrate just to get exercise but who knows, right?\u00a0 They will typically migrate in between the wet and dry seasons, which is probably a very nice time of year to travel.\u00a0 The eldest elephant of the herd has a very important task, one that is usually designated to the passenger riding shot-gun.\u00a0 No, the oldest elephant is responsible for playing awesome road trip songs.\u00a0 They are actually responsible for remembering the migration route – they are the navigators!<\/p>\n
Sri Lankan Elephant – <\/strong>As a result of all the habitat loss the Sri Lankan Elephant is in danger of becoming extinct.\u00a0 Although, we have set up some National parks for them to hang out in, they are still attacked by poachers looking for their ivory tusks.\u00a0 These poor elephants just can’t win, can they?<\/p>\nWell, I feel better now that I was able to get another Elephant fact out of my system.\u00a0 Make sure you tune in tomorrow to see what animal is next on the Wild Facts Countdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For a little while now, I have had the strongest desire to write about the elephant again (I just find them fascinating).\u00a0 I held off this urge since I have already talked about the Asian and African Elephants.\u00a0 Well, today is the day, I succumb to my desires.\u00a0 Yep, we are going to explore the world of the Sri Lankan Elephant which is simply a sub-species of the Asian Elephant.\u00a0 Don’t worry, they are still just as interesting as all other elephants.\u00a0 The Sri Lankan Elephant is the largest of all the Asian Elephant sub-species and there are quite a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,784,1885,1884,785,27,4025,1883],"yoast_head":"\n
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