Week #9 Begins: Draw An Elephant 🐘 ||15 Steem Prize to be won

Hello my good friends. It is time for another animal drawing challenge. This week I will be drawing an Elephant.

Drawing an Elephant

To draw an Elephant, we need the following:-

• A pencil

• An eraser

• A black ink pen

• A cardboard paper.

You can now see the steps taken to draw it.

This is me with the Elephant I drew.

Describe an Elephant

An Elephant is the biggest and largest land animal presently. It has two big ear flaps, big and massive legs, have a tough but sensitive skin, two tusks and a long trunk. The Elephant uses it's trunk for breathing, collecting food and water for its feeding and also use it to grasp objects. There tusks can serve as a weapon and as a tool for digging and moving objects. Elephants eats grasses and likes to stay near water a lot.

What qualities does an elephant possess

They can communicate in various ways like touch, smell, sound. They can communicate seismically and uses infra-sound to communicate over long distances. Elephants also have these feelings of self-awareness and have been seen to show what looks like empathy when a comrade is dying or is dead.

Despite weighing as much as 400 pounds, it can pick up something as small as a single grain of rice, this is simply amazing. Elephants have been observed to behave as humans sometimes, recognizing themselves in the mirror. They are very fearful of bees too.

It is also good to note that they possess good memories. The leader of a group which is normally a female can remember all their enemies and friends over a long time. Additionally they travel long distances in search of water but never misses their destination even after 10 years of being there. This is simply incredible.

Have you seen one before? If yes, where?

I have not seen an elephant physically. I only see them on television and other wild life documentaries online.

Are they important to man?

Elephants are useful to man by helping to maintain the forest and natural ecosystem. They help in planting trees by spreading the seeds of plant while traveling over long distances, thus keeping the forest healthy and resilient. When we have strong and healthy forest, climate change will be reduced drastically.

Their help in planting seeds helps preserve the live of other animals who survive by feeding on those plants.

They are also a source of tourist attraction, becoming a source of revenue to the local community where they live.

Elephants presence In a community also brings additional security to the place. Since the police will have to be trained to protect the elephants, they also protect the citizens of that community in the process.

Conclusion

Elephants are peaceful animals not looking for anyone's problem. We can really learn and apply what we learn from the Elephants in human life.

Next time we are looking for a wildlife tourist destination, let us think of the Elephants.

I invite @michaelu40, wizzyboy3 and happy01 to join this contest.