Elephant populations are currently declining lapidary. Human influence is the main and major reason that leads to such a population decline of the elephants. The habitat loss, environmental change, and killing for human safety are the few reasons that affect the population of the elephant, but the major and most responsible cause of the killing and decrease in the elephant population is killing for the ivory of elephants,
Elephant ivory is very expensive and use for making jewelry, artifacts and many more items even illegal medicines are made by ivory.
Absorption is a process that takes place in the small intestines or ileum of the GI tract, in which simple and soluble nutrients are absorbed into the blood stream.
Absorption is enhanced by several adaptations of the gut such as large surface area of the gut which directly facilitates absorption of nutrients.
Presence of villi and microvilli in the gut increases the surface area for absorption of nutrients in the ileum.
The central element for all living things is carbon, which is why you might often hear the phrase "carbon-based" lifeforms. Another term is often "organic matter"