Elephants are highly intelligent, highly sophisticated, long lived animals, as emotional as ourselves. A calf’s very existence depends upon its mother’s milk for the first two years of life. They have giant memories and only thrive if happy. Can u help save elephants from the extinction??? Poaching has got out of control, despite a ban on the international trade in ivory. Elephants are being poached in large numbers and tens of thousands are killed every year for their ivory