Elephant Analysis

Elephants now join an elite club of social cooperators: chimpanzees, hyenas, rooks, and humans. In the video Elephants show cooperation, the article Elephants can lend a helping trunk, and the passage Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task, The authors demonstrate the intelligence of elephants. They conduct an experiment which shows how elephants work together to achieve a goal. All three sources illustrate the cognitive ability of these sagacious creatures.

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...show more content... It only worked if the two pulled it but if only one did it wouldn't work. "Rope–pulling strategies were ultimately at the discretion of the elephant, but all elephants had earlier, as part of the facility's routine, been trained to pull chains." The elephants had to pull the ropes in order to get the treats. The scientist recorded the data and they carefully examined what the elephants did during the test. "All data was recorded with video cameras" They also used charts and images to describe the data. The elephants cooperation really showed during this test. "In testing trials, the two mahouts stood at the release point with their elephants and retrained them by touching ear or front leg." This passage gets into the detail on the corn as well. "During the final tolerance condition, two trials each of the following were randomized over six trials: each bowl was baited as in test trials, with two half–ear of corn, one or the other bowl was baited with six half–ear of corn." This passage deeply puts forth the efforts and the exact measurements of this test for the elephants.

In the video Elephants show cooperation, the article Elephants can lend a helping trunk, and the passage Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task, The authors demonstrate the intelligence of elephants. They conduct an experiment which shows how elephants work together to achieve a goal. All three sources illustrate the cognitive ability of these sagacious creatures. All of these sources were similar and they all had a great exclamation on the test for the Get more content

Essay: Elephant by Polly Clark, 2006 A To choose your own future, destiny and life is very hard. Everyone wants to do something that makes them happy. But sometimes you take the wrong decisions or everything decides to go against you, which makes you stay in the box you were trying to escape from. When your dreams don't get fulfilled, you will be in that box and wait for the light. It's not always about what you want, but what you need. And to live a good life, and to do something productive, you have to work in a way that will make you happy, because that is what you need the most. Elephant is a short story written by Polly Clark in 2006. My focus point is William and his life, which I will analyze and interpret. I will also discuss the...show more content...

21 – 27. 2. Elephant by Polly Clark – l. 11– 13. 3. Elephant by Polly Clark – l. 19 – 23. 4. Elephant by Polly Clark – l. 80 – 83 He keeps thinking about an elephant he got from his mother when he was little, after his wife tells him that she will be home in twenty minutes, he gets a flashback to a time where he was waiting for his mom in the same amount of time. And that's when he got the blue elephant5. The elephant can symbolize freedom, peace and happiness, which he is looking for. It was a gift from his mother, and she had been gone for a long while, so when she came back it brought joy and hope in him. Therefore the elephant is meaningful and also the light in his dark working room. William gets a switch between getting hope and losing it, as when he was talking with his wife Ginny, about moving to Australia, he just says "Let's see what happens" as if it doesn't interest him.6 He is not pleased with the way his life is, because it wasn't the way he planned it to be, but he has hope and is dedicated with his work, even though it sadness him that he feels as if his work is unwanted. Ken Follett's introduction to the 1999 edition of The Pillars of the Earth can be used as an introduction to William's life, because "Nothing happens the way you plan it."7 At the end of the story of the text Elephant, Williams does realize that he actually can change his life, by involving his own past and experiences. Tears fills his eyes and he finally finds peace, because

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"We are experiencing what is likely to be the greatest percentage loss of elephants in history," said Richard G. Ruggiero, an official with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Ney York Times; December 3, 2012). The poaching of elephants started in the late 1800's and is still happening today. People are slaughtering these majestic animals for theirivory tusks. Ivory has been sold on the black market for millions of dollars. Before the start of ivory poaching there were millions of elephants in the world in both Africa and India, but today because of the hunting for ivory, there are barely any of these giants left in the wild. Throughout history Europeans have been moving in on central African states to make ...show more content...

"It is a tragedy beyond reckoning and humanity needs to pay attention to the plight of the elephants before it is too late" said Cyril Christo (CNN; February3, 2013). This world–wide known tragedy has probed other countries to donate money, campaign, and educate to create an avenue for the awareness of Save the Elephants (www.savetheelephants.org).

There are organizations around the globe designed to stop elephant poaching. Their intent is to sway people's opinions to help with the world–wide problem. Only a global ban on the sale of ivory would take the heat off of these massive creatures. Solutions might include, addressing the involvement of international criminal institutes by means of strong law enforcement at both national and international levels along the full extent of the supply. Closing down domestic (national) markets in ivory, would also be beneficial. Countries could embrace the trade ban, and educate consumers in order to stem the demand for ivory (Bloody Ivory; January 11, 2013).

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