How can you tell an Asian elephant from an African one? Look at the ears: the Asian elephant’s are smaller and more rounded. Its head has two bumps and its back arches upward. And at the tip of its trunk it has a single “finger”, whereas the African elephant has two. That trunk is an amazing tool: it has tens of thousands of muscles and is used for breathing, smelling, drinking, greeting and picking up anything from a leaf to a log. Asian elephants live in families led by the eldest female, the matriarch, who remembers where to find water and food. And they can spend up to eighteen hours a day eating. Today they are endangered: fewer than fifty thousand remain in the wild. Protecting their forests means protecting their memory.