Elephants always stay in contact with eachother when the herd is apart by making a sound to tell the others their location. When an elephant knows that danger is near, that one stops making noises and warns the others. There is several threats to their existence, but there is one main reason. The main reason for their endangerment is poaching. Poaching means illegal hunting of an animal, and in this case it's an elephant.
People hunt the African elephant for their beautiful tusks.
There is only 600,00 African elephants left in the wild. That may seem like a lot, but it really isn't. Poachers have killed most of the older ones, because they've got the biggest tusks. I ended up thinking those were the elephants I should use. I took six pages of notes on the Addo elephant, and they weren't that good.