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10 animals that are bad for the environment

10 animals that are bad for the environment

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Guest 05/03/2010 22:47 PM

Do you wanna try to have that conversation with them

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rosa 05/03/2010 09:35 AM

okay so its okay when people burn tree's down or cut them off but its not okay when elephants do it to survive okay that really ******* clever

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pimp 05/02/2010 19:59 PM

and humans don't down trees? like 10,000 times more than elephants?

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Rick 05/02/2010 19:07 PM

Would somebody please explain to me why humans are not at the very top of this list in bold capital letters!

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Doh 05/02/2010 14:22 PM

It's us humans not the Elephants

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Guest 05/02/2010 04:46 AM

The first one should be human beings.

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ash 05/02/2010 00:45 AM

maybe people shouldnt live in range of a herd of elephants pack up your bags or what ever and leave their there for a reason

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panickitty125 05/01/2010 23:22 PM

are the cutest effing animals in the world

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Jacka 04/15/2010 01:28 AM

Elephants - Wow.
Here is the comment "To reach food, elephants regularly break branches, uproot bushes and push down whole trees"
Next is the link to this - http://www.jstor.org/pss/2402679?cookieSet=1
In there is this comment
"these animals had all drive off.. The area was now occupied by "thousand and thousand of cows""
In one of the.... More

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Elephants

Elephants are the world's largest and most powerful land animals, so it's not surprising they have a profound impact on the ecosystem. To reach food, elephants regularly break branches, uproot bushes and push down whole trees — sometimes whole strands of trees. Elephants prefer to roam across a vast territory, so forests can usually recover from the damage they cause. But when fences, farmland and human encroachment shrink the range of these magnificent beasts, elephant behavior can radically alter a limited landscape.
 
 
 
 
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