Elephants are a keystone species - meaning that they play a pivotal role in structuring both plant and animal communities, contributing to biodiversity through seed dispersal and the creation of habitat mosaics. They move over long distances pruning as they go. Their lack of a specialized digestive system means that in their dung seeds have an ideal environment for germination, making elephants perfect gardeners. Their dung is home to thousands of small invertebrates, who in turn are food for birds, reptiles and small mammals. Many important ecosystems would partly collapse if the elephants disappear. Please share widely!
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:00:00 +0000
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