Quote Originally Posted by gregs656 View Post
Is it? I believe there are more elephants in parts of Africa than have ever been seen before, and Elephants in areas they did not normally reside in.

The Human population is kept in check, to a degree, by war and famine and natural disasters and etc etc etc Although we (the west) kinda messed up the natural balance in Africa when we vaccinated every one against everything.

My point is, that currently there are few things that have any impact on the elephant population because they are so heavily protected. This is not natural.
Wow Greg565,

Do you really believe what you are writing or is this something you'd like to believe? Here is something that I believe:
"African elephants once lived throughout Africa; they now inhabit no more than one-third of the continent and are gone from the Sahara. Over the past 150 years, ivory hunters have ruthlessly hunted them for their tusks. Between 1979 and 1989, Africa's elephant population plummeted from 1,300,000 animals to 750,000, due mostly to ivory hunting. Since the 1980s, an international ban on trade in ivory has helped many populations hold steady or rebound. However, African elephants have lost much of their habitat to ranches, farms, and desertification. The forest elephant, always far less common than the savanna subspecies, is under threat from logging and market hunting for its meat. African elephants are now found mostly in reserves. In some parks, confined elephant populations have major impacts on habitat, changing open forests into grasslands."

That was taken from the Smithsonian National Zoological Park: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AfricanSavanna/fact-afelephant.cfm

I would tend to chose them over you as the expert. But hey, I could be wrong.

Brad