Achieving Project Goals Simulation 3

As portrayed in “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, an experiment was to be tested on the animals to study their behavior in certain situations. This article went on to illustrate the procedure and plan on what they were going to do. “To test the elephants’ cooperation skills, a team of scientists modified a classic experiment first administered to chimpanzees in the 1930s, which requires two animals work together to earn a treat” (Morell 30). This indicates the concept and procedure to the experiment. It continues to explain. “The findings

Furthermore, in the last article, “Elephants Console Each Other.” Written by Virginia Morell. The purpose that the author wrote this is to inform the people that are reading this, with facts about how elephants console each other. I know this because in the passage it states. “They help baby elephants stuck in mud holes, use their trunks to ift other elephants that are injured or dying, and even reportedly reassure distressed individual elephants with a gentle touch of their trunk.” This was written for someone who wants to learn about elephant behaviour due to the evidence in the

Every hunter proceeded with the utmost caution. When an elephant was spotted, everyone stayed back as one of the lead hunters, Arumba, stepped up to take aim at the elephant. The first time, he was unsuccessful because the elephant galloped away right before he had a chance to strike, it took a few more hours to re-track the creature. When it was spotted again Arumba crept up with great stealth and ease and struck the elephant with the spear. Arumba's spear entered deep into the side of it's target. The elephant let out a screech of pain and galloped off again. The Mbuti hunters then followed the blood trail of the wounded elephant and waited for it to die. They followed this particular elephant for approximately two hours before it stopped running. Word was sent back to camp that an elephant was wounded and that they should be ready to move very soon. Later, the elephant was found again, swaying on it's feet fighting to stay alive. One of the hunters through a stick and hit the elephant in the head, it simply let out a yell, but did not move. "This animal is dead," said one of the hunters. They soon approached it and jabbed it lightly with the spear once more, it didn't even budge.

Explanation and Analysis: The human population is slowly moving into the Elephant's habitat and environment causing more conflict between humans and animals than ever before.

Since the elephant was no longer a threat, there is no need to shoot it. The elephant should have been left alone in the field until its owner came to claim him.

The official title of the world’s largest land dwelling animal belongs to the elephant, more specifically, the African elephant. Elephants are some of the most deadly animals, which increases the danger of human and elephant interactions. Increased human and elephant interactions lead to increased deaths of both humans and elephants. Surprisingly, these animals are socially apt. The trunk is used for more than just eating and drinking; it is used for socializing. They are complex animals who live in large familial herds. Females stay with their family throughout their entire lives while males only stay for approximately fifteen years (Elephant Protection 1). Elephants possess a great memory and only forget what they learn occasionally and

The official title of the world’s largest land dwelling animal belongs to the elephant, more specifically, the African elephant. Elephants also are some of the most deadly animals, which therefore increase the danger of human and elephant interactions. The more human interactions occur, the more deaths result, whether it is the elephant or the human who dies. These animals, surprisingly, are socially apt; their trunk is used for more than just eating and drinking- it is used for socializing. They are complex animals who live in large familial herds-females stay with their family throughout their entire lives while males only stay for approximately fifteen years (Elephant Protection, 1). Elephants possess a great memory and only forget what they learn occasionally and rarely, giving way to the “an elephant never forgets” saying (Maloiy, 178c). Despite how many people use the beloved saying, elephants may not be around much longer due to the shortened life span and increased mortality rates. Due to their incisor teeth, tusks, being extremely expensive and profitable, they are being murdered for the wealth they carry. This, coupled with the life span shortening because of malicious treatments and brutal practices reduces the life span of the African elephant from 56 to 16 years and the Asian elephant from 42 to 19 years (Elephant Protection, 1). According to what the statistics show, elephants may be following their ancestors to their death. Of the group of mammals called

21) It is Amazing in a dismal way the number of elephants being killed in only the past decade. Similarly in “Can She Be Saved”, Justin O’neill, Astoundingly states that “according to some estimates, poachers

This passage shows a different side that elephants help each other for good. Elephants can rely on other elephants to help them when they are troubled. The other two passages did not pertain to the elephants

Elephants have been victims of not just the incessant poaching but also of the civil wars; ultimately making them to fight back. The killing case have gone over the roof, as the “singular perversity” (Siebert 353) of the attacks. In India, “nearly one thousand people have been killed by elephants between 2000 and 2004” (Siebert 353). Several frequent attacks were recorded in Africa and other villages where the denizens were forced to evacuate their houses. ‘nearly one thousand’ which accentuates the gravity of the situation in 4 years had gained a lot of attention from the elephants researchers. Seibert’s prime third perspective, Gay Bradshaw, Oregon State psychologist, claims that that “everybody pretty much agrees that the relationship between elephants and people has dramatically changed” (Siebert 353). The choice of diction ‘dramatically’ indicates that elephants are not being violent towards human beings but they are also doing it intentionally. Dramatic behavior changes over the years are now being explained in the elephants. “Bradshaw and several colleagues argued that today’s elephant populations are suffering from a form of chronic stress, a kind of species-wide trauma” (Siebert 354), due to “decades of poaching and habitat loss” (Siebert 354). Elephants are becoming more destructive and Bradshaw looked into combining “traditional research into elephant behavior with insights about trauma drawn from

Ladies and gentlemen of the Ueno zoo, we are gathered here today in honor of two lost friends. Wonky and Tonly recently passed away due to the legal treatment we had given due to legal requirements. Wonky and Tonly put up a good fight through their starvation. Even though we all would like them to be with us today, the people of the Ueno zoo know in their hearts Wonky and Tonly are in a better place, a place without war and pain. This is the least that they deserve after the weeks of suffering they endured and the warmth and happiness they brought to people. I for one, knew that whenever I felt sad or angry, I could visit those gigantic and gentle creatures to bring me happiness. These two elephants bestowed a amount of faith and

Second elephants cooperate with each other. As you can see in the graph the success rates

Elephants trunks can measure up to eight feet, they use them for digging, fighting, marking, and feeding. African Elephants have long and flexible trunks, this adaptation lets Elephants reach high into the trees to get food. They also use their trunks to suck up and spray water on their skin, to help them cool off in hot habitats. They also have many offsprings male’s are called bulls and females are called cows. Elephants have a long time to bear their Calves before they are born. An Elephant averagely gets pregnant every 5 years, they stay in the wombs for about 22 months or almost 2 years. If you would calculate it, she could have 6 babies in her

Cows and calves reside together in herds, with a single cow guiding them. Bulls, however, do not stay in these herds with the other elephants.27 African elephants maintain what are called “family units,” which are groups, or families, normally containing eight to nine elephants. African elephant families are regularly “friends,” so to speak, with other families, and these friendly families warn one another if danger comes. Inside these families, young cows watch the calves, and cows also teach the calves and keep them safe. Accordingly, the calves rely on the cows. “Mothering, in sum, is the essential function and primary goal of elephant society.”28 Both calves and adults sleep in prone position, unless they are simply dozing, in which circumstance the adults remain standing, seeing that standing up after laying down may be a difficult affair. African elephants take great enjoyment in playing in

This quote the ritual that elephant have within their community. Just as humans visit the grave of a lost one, and miss them dearly, the same is true for elephant. Though they are enormous creatures in comparison to humans, both are still quite the same. Furthermore, the humanization of other by emphasizing similarity invokes an