About 100,000 elephants were estimated to be slaughtered for their ivory between 2010-2012. The celebrations for this year's World Wildlife Day would centre around the theme, "The future of wildlife is in our hands" with the sub theme being "The future of elephants is in our hands", in an effort to highlight the precarious plight of the African and Asian Elephant species. Elephants along with pangolins, rhinoceros , sharks, tigers and precious tree species are among the most critically poached and trafficked species across the world. 

We look at some interesting trivia about elephants on this occasion...