pessimistic forecast on the future of the giant African prisoner of reserves too tight for his vital needs
pessimistic forecast on the future of the giant African prisoner of reserves too tight for his vital needs and Elephant Man: There is a dramatic living 'a dark future for the African elephant. If I think of him with the mentality' of 'ecologist, I can not see how the difficulty' of living with our species descended from a certain similarity of the roles in the same ecosystem. Tendency to dominance, intelligence, requires 'a large amount of' resource, a propensity for the population explosion, these are the main similarities. And 'this reality': the elephant and man, in Africa, are ill-bear 'cause, in some respects, overlap. This' is tragically more and more 'obvious now that, at least in part, the problem of trafficking in ivory and' resolved. And I write some reference to international conventions, now that the elephant while remaining sufficiently protect the poaching and illegal trade. The fact is that the elephants were slaughtered for the ivory taken today are still 'cause overflow from protected areas. The barriers that tend to avoid that such areas under cultivation, interfere with their behavior, prevent migration, make it, in many cases, "problem animals" harmful and dangerous. On the other hand, protected areas reserved for them are quantitatively inadequate, and these animals are endangered, paradoxically, find themselves living in a state of overcrowding that depresses the same biodiversity 'of the protected area. Difficult to do something long-term program on the African continent, who lives in a state of instability 'political and guerrilla wars, the need' to find solutions to current human population in a dramatic increase in population, with the ruling classes often unprepared to decline an acceptable economic and ecology. This pessimism about the future of the African elephant, I suddenly (or at least I had confirmation) by Joyce Poole's essay "Back to Africa" \u200b\u200band that 'just been published by Mondadori. Joyce Poole and 'un'etologa who did field research on the behavior of the elephant for a couple of decades, and that for some time takes care in a practical way of preserving this species. Knowledge about the behavior are essential for groped, somehow, to manage this complex species. The socialist 'based on matriarchy leads to a peculiar spatial distribution of individuals who, because of the high sociality', and altruism, must always be considered as part of a complex group where all social classes have to find a representation. The hunt for ivory in the light, however, has not only dramatically to the disappearance of the old males, but also the great matriarchs, often resulting in unbalanced situations capable, in many cases, to cause even more suffering and dangerous behavioral disturbances. But there 'more'. The ethological research more 'advanced features in fact a portrait of the African elephant who can' put subtle ethical problems to anyone in need 'with plans to intervene drastically euphemistically called a marquee. In the essay above mentioned are some chapters that make the point on the structure of thought, the so-called elephant telepathy (communication with infrasound), the ability 'of awareness (the recognition by the thinking subject of its own acts or affections), empathy (the ability' of a conscious being with the imagination to project itself into the consciousness of another entity 'living ). And finally, impressively, the ability to 'recognize the death and put in place, against a dead conspecific, a ritual' that addresses a grave with branches. Well, not 'only a partially overlapping roles in the context of ecology to pose problems to our relationship with this extraordinary pachyderm, and' the recognition of higher-order ethological characteristics. And what 'and that' extraordinary 'that apparently even the elephant receives some kind of affinity 'intellectual, perhaps sympathetic, with our species. And this is especially noticeable when an elephant comes across a human corpse. 'Cause our species reappear only with the rituals dedicated to dead elephants. Ultimately there is 'a lot to think sull'etologia and ecology of the African elephant,' cause this species runs the risk that we alert you to those who run our own. Once there was talk of centrality 'meaning the man's dominance over nature. Now, I think, no more 'sense to think in these terms. The central 'man, if anything, can not today' that identify with other attributes such as responsibility ', and awareness. Those who struggle to save the elephant means do so to save ourselves .*
Danilo Mainardi
Page 22 (July 13, 1997) - Corriere della Sera
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