大象是动物世界里不可或缺的重要成员,孩子们从儿童时代就会描绘大象,到动物园里也爱看大象。然而公众调查显示,70%以上的人都不知道大象面临的最大威胁是人们对象牙的贪婪而进行的盗猎。盗猎者残忍地猎杀大象仅是为了获取象牙,为此延续了5000万年的大象物种,如今已到了濒危的边缘。大象是世界上最大的陆生哺乳动物,属于长鼻目,它们的祖先在几千万年前就出现在地球上。大象家族曾经很繁荣,是地球上最占优势的动物类群之一, Elephants are an integral part of the animal world. Children paint elephants from childhood and elephants in zoos. However, public surveys show that over 70% do not know that the biggest threat to elephants is the greedy and poaching of people’s teeth. Poachers cruelly hunted elephants only to obtain ivory, for which the continuation of 50 million years of elephant species, and now has reached the brink of extinction. Elephants are the largest terrestrial mammals in the world and belong to the family of proboscis, whose ancestors appeared on the earth tens of millions of years ago. The elephant family once prosperous, is one of the most dominant animal groups on Earth,