Animals That Possess A Backbone Or Spinal Column

Not surprisingly, elephants are known for being more emotional and empathetic animals than the rest. According the three articles, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task”, and “Elephants Console Each Other” elephants understand when they need each other’s assistance. All two authors describe the studies of elephant behavior differently, but with a similar purpose.

To begin with, the first article, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk.” Written by Virginia Morell, talks about what experiment they are using and how they

Explanation and Analysis: There really are a lot of characteristics overlooked when talking about Elephants as a whole species.

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 authors in “ Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk In a Cooperative Task”, and “Elephants Console Each Other” all propose different purposes on one main general idea; elephants are more complex in ‘human behaviour’ than previously believed . Along with purpose, the authors aim at different viewpoints that all relatively agree with the same general acquisition, again, ‘ human behavior’.

The year is 1,002,016 and it’s scorching hot! The African Bush Elephant’s trunk has evolved to be six inches longer. The ancient elephants had a different variation of the trunk, some of them had a smaller trunk, some elephants with longer trunks. Now that there was different types of elephants natural selection came into place so, more and more of the elephants had longer trunks, but as time has passed water became scarce. As a result, the elephants with the smaller trunks in the population diminished. Since they were not able to survive. The elephant with the longer trunk were able to survive more. Now the trait will help the elephant survive since, it was able to adapt to their new dry sandy habitat since it be able to smell the water

it resembles the trunk of a huge elephant as it weaves back and forth across its

In either species, if it is possible for the male to make body contact with the female he tries to lay his head or trunk in the elephant, on her back. After lots of

The Elephant, frightened by the Pride, scrambles to his feet and runs to the nearby trees. He attempts to rip one out of the soil with his trunk and tusks, but the tree is too firmly rooted. His only option is some rotten logs, laying down on the bank, filled with termites and roaches. The Elephant, while hating insects, knows that this is his only option, and hoists the log up over the river with his tusks, and attempts to quickly stamp the log into the mud. However, in his haste he snaps the log, and watches as it floats down the

Daniel Povinelli tested two Asian elephants in 1989 and Plotnik in 2006 tested three Asian elephants. In both experiments, they used female Asian elephants, they did not use female African elephants because they touch their heads several time a day due to secretion of their temporal gland. Female Asian Elephants’ temporal gland is non-secretory (Plotnik, de Waal, and Reiss). The results would be confusing because Povinelli

In the video Elephants show cooperation the narrator clearly puts forth the abilities these incredible mammals exhibit in their efforts of getting the corn on the other side of a net. Some of the elephants knew how to do it and at the same time they drew the

First, the passage claims that elephants have awareness about their death time. It stands to reason that old elephants leave their herds to live lonely along sites near water. In addition, a large number of elderly elephants found in sites around water illustrates this claims. Nevertheless, the lecture rejects this idea, highlighting the fact that when elephants become old, they lose their ability to shew hard materials. For this reason, they leave their herd to seek soft vegetables to eat, and because soft materials are often found near water, they choose sites which are near water to live. That is why a large number of elephant bones have been found in such places.

The first passage talks about how the elephants help each other out. For example the elephants would help feed each other.They would also help another elephant I it is hurt. Another way they would help each other out is by defending one another. That is what the first passage talks about.

Just imagine life without any elephants, wiped out just like the dinosaurs. In the early 1980’s, there were more than a million reported elephants in Africa. Tragically, during that decade, 600,000 elephants were destroyed for ivory products. Today, conceivably no more than 400,000 elephants remain across the continent. Elephants are facing a very real threat of extinction; In fact, the African elephants are listed on the

The study and research of reproduction in elephants is increasingly critical in consideration of the quickly dwindling population numbers and estimates. The current Asian elephant population is estimated to lie between 50,000-70,000 across the world, with 15,000 of these individuals in captivity. African elephant population numbers are low as well after serious culling through hunting and poaching. These numbers make the low reproduction rates a great concern as elephants do not currently sufficiently reproduce at an adequate rate to sustain population size.12