The African elephant is located in the grasslands of the African Savannahs. This large animal can grow to be about 13 ft. tall and can weigh up to nearly 14,000 lbs in their adult life. They also have a 33 year lifespan. An African Elephant stays in the grasslands or savannas of Africa. The African savanna has brutal weather. The rainy seasons fall between December to April. The dry season is from May to November. The average temperature is about 68 to 86f. There are many living and nonliving
connections in a web can compromise the whole structure, and ecosystems are very much the same way; complex and fragile. According to the 2015 New York Times article by Marc Santora “Vulture Populations Wane, Poisoned by Man”, one of the threads in the African ecosystem web has been severely damaged, and is having adverse affects on the rest of the ecosystem. Santora (2015) is reporting on the first major study of the 30 year decline in vulture populations across