NEWS ITEM

Landslide Kills Four People – Four people died after a landslide in Simirau district in Ambon, Maluku.

According to the Maluku Disaster Mitigation Agency, two other local residents have yet to be found.

Lodi Karual, 30, a local resident whose house was crushed by the landslide said that the incident

happened after heavy rains occurred in the area. Dozens of residents, police, military and Search and Rescue

Agency personnel have been looking for the missing residents, although the three meter pile of debris from the

landslide made evacuation efforts difficult.

“The search will continue until we can find those two residents who have been buried,” said local

official Ibrahim Sangadji

The African Elephant

The African Elephant is described as the Loxodonta africana of Africa. They are very large, grey, four-

legged herbivorous mammals. They have almost hairless skin, a distinctive long, flexible, prehensile trunk. Its

upper incisors form long curved tusks of ivory. African elephants have large fan-shaped ears and two “fingers” at

the tip of its trunk, compared to only one in the Asian species. Furthermore, the Indian Elephant is described as

Elephas maximus of south-central Asia. The ears of Indian elephants are significantly smaller than African

elephants.

Elephants are herbivores and eat all types of vegetation such as grasses, leaves, fruits, and bark. The

facts tell that despite the size of ears the elephant’s hearing is poor, because elephants ears are used to aid

ventilation. One of the softest parts of their body is at the back of the ears, which is called the knuckle. In a zoo,

elephant trainers, called Mahouts, use their feet to steer or give commands to the animal via the knuckle at the

back of the ears.

Some other facts about the elephants are : The elephant is the largest of all land mammals; Life Span

- elephants can live for up to 70 years; Elephants normally walk about 4 mph; Elephants are able to swim for

long distances; Elephants spend about 16 hours a day eating; They consume as much as 495 pounds of food per

day; They live in tight social units led by an older matriarch; Males leave the herd between the ages of 12 and

15; Their tusks are of ivory and are actually enormously enlarged incisors; The elephant's eyes are small and its

eyesight is poor, They have the largest brains in the animal kingdom.

Vacation to Indrayanti Beach

Last weekend, after visiting my parent at Wonosari Gunungkidul, I and my family went to Indrayanti Beach to

spend our holiday by our own car.

The way to get Indrayanti Beach is very zigzag and it’s very quiet in the middle of night. We almost got lost

since we never go there before, but eventually we got there safely. We hardly got a room to stay overnight because it

was long weekend so that we could not find a room easily.

We got up so early in the morning that we could enjoy sunrise landscape at the beach. My son was playing

white sand with his sister while I took their picture.

A day at Indrayanti beach felt so short, we were quite tired for playing a whole day, but we were very happy.