Earthquakes and Elephants In the article divulged by Michael Garstang and Michael C. Kelly named “Understanding Animal Detection of Precursor Earthquake Sounds”, these two intelligent men talk about how many “animals detect sounds over a wide range of frequencies” (Garstang pg.2). Animals have the ability to detect sounds in very low frequencies due to their nature. For example, Garstang talks about how bats use ultra sound in order to communicate, and “navigate to capture their prey” (pg.2). For the rest of this intellectual discussion, Elephants will be the main vehicle of evidence. Elephants on the other hand use infrasound, unlike bats, elephants use this type of sound for “long-range communication which is vital to their reproduction, resource utilization and predator avoidance” (Garstang pg.2). Elephants are very elegant creatures; many people do not acknowledge how incredible they are. “Elephants have highly developed brains and the largest of all the land mammals. The brain is 3 or 4 times larger than that of humans although smaller as proportion of body weight” (Mikell Design’s). Also, many elephants can sense vibrations created by …show more content…
This article gave a little sort of confusion, sometimes information can be so pure. I fully understand when it mentions the aspects of the elephant and the ratios of the frequencies. As soon as Garstang starts talking how he measured the frequencies of an elephants hearing by using electrons, satellites, and the ground that is when the article became a little difficult to understand. Maybe if Garstang and Kelly decided to break it down a little more than my understanding for this article would be superb. Other than that, this article taught me a great deal of things. This article is about measuring how well elephants can hear. That alone is something very difficult to calculate. Nonetheless, it is amazing what Garstang and Kelly
Have you ever wondered how animals interact and work together to get a job done? Many times, animals put their minds together to complete a task. But what many people do not realize is that animals interact with one another just as humans would. In many instances, people don’t realize the amount of intelligence and common sense that animals, such as the elephant, possess. The study of elephant’s thoughts and thinking were explained and backed up through three different mediums. This information was explained through articles, videos, and passages. Combined, these pieces of work clarified what the experiment was, what it was testing, the purpose behind it, and how the different pieces were
This is one of the most commonly asked questions around the world. Earthquakes are very common because the Earth’s tectonic plates are constantly moving, because they are constantly moving earthquakes are happening quite often across the globe. Statistics show that over 1 million occur each year worldwide (see source 9), but earthquakes don’t have to be felt for them to have occurred. Statistics prove that 1 100 000 earthquakes happen per year worldwide that can’t be felt by humans. Statistics show that about 11 670 earthquakes occur that can be felt in the area of occurrence and sometimes even further
The author states that before the mega-quake actually hits, there is a compression wave that is detected by animals. It has received a wide debate as to the relationship between animals and the compression waves. It is said that animals start to react very strange and then two minutes later, there is a boom of a massive mega quake.
Imagine that three people are all touching a part of an elephant. The first is touching the elephant's leg and says that the elephant is like the truck of a tree. The second is touching the elephant's trunk and disagrees with the first, saying that the elephant is like a large snake. The third person is touching the elephant’s side and says that the elephant is like a great wall.
George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” is a short story that not only shows cultural divides and how they affect our actions, but also how that cultural prejudice may also affect other parties, even if, in this story, that other party may only be an elephant. Orwell shows the play for power between the Burmese and the narrator, a white British police-officer. It shows the severe prejudice between the British who had claimed Burma, and the Burmese who held a deep resentment of the British occupation. Three messages, or three themes, from Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” are prejudice, cultural divide, and power.
Morell’s purpose of writing is to inform the reader of the elephants behavior during the testing, their intelligence, and their compassion. In “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk” It says, “...the pachyderms understand that they will fail at a task without a partner’s assistance. The ability to understand when you need help Is present in both humans and elephants. Just like when a human asks for help elephants know when they need help in doing a task. Morell also says in her other article, “Elephants Console Each Other” that elephants who are angry erect their tail and make their ears flare.
There are some wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than wounds that bleed. Just as all humans, elephants similarly feel emotions whether it is joy or sorrow. In his article “An Elephant Crack Up?” the author, Charles Siebert focuses on the recent strange and bellicose behaviors of elephants and clears up the causes of the behaviors with plenty of informative observations. In “Immune to Reality,” Daniel Gilbert theorizes that the psychological immune system is triggered by large-scale negative events. We also see these negative effects in the passage, “The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan,” while Ethan Watters exposes the attempts of Glaxo Smith Kline to convince the Japanese doctors that the Japanese people
Specific sound frequencies are made when most animals communicate. with each other and how they are made differs ,; however, they all serve the main purpose of delivering a message from one animal to the other. Can these frequencies be delivered from an outside source to possibly control interactive occurrences? The behavioral traits between crickets rely heavily on their ratios of sex, population density, and the communications amongst each other. The male cricket often leads the communication with aggressive calls to other males (8 kHz and chirps about 2 seconds in length at 8 kHz) and mating calls to females (3 kHz and chirps about 4 seconds in length). The sounds produced during these interactions derive from the stridulating of the cricket’s wings. This in turn
The excerpt from Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk is about the exact procedures and results of the same experiment that Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk was about. It contains the precise physical dimensions of every part of the test, and detailed explanations of each step that was followed to preform the test. Little to no opinions, quotes, or even conclusions that could be drawn were included, due to the strict, formal, and informational nature of the passage. The author's purpose was purely to explain all parts of the elephant study, and not at all to entertain or persuade.
Killer whales communicate by a series of clicks and whistles called vocalization. Each pod, or family, has their own unique language. This gives whales the ability to identify their own pods. Orcas have a brain that is about five ti...
Earthquake waves were observed in this and other ways for centuries, but more scientific theories as to the causes of quakes
A new disease has recently been discovered that is now hindering elephants’ ability to survive even further. This is a major problem because according to Science Magazine, as of 1997, there are only an estimated 291 Asian elephants and 193 African elephants left in North American zoos. Since this survey was conducted, this number has declined significantly. It is now estimated that for every elephant that is born in a zoo, another three die. In the wild, female elephants are constantly pregnant or nursing.
Measuring from the shoulder, African elephants are on average 10.8 feet (females 8.9 feet), and the average length of their trunk is approximately 7-8 feet. They have the same size eyes as humans, but have no functional tear glands so they have a third eyelid to provide moisture. Their ears are large and fan-shaped, and act as radiators that prevent overheating. They have the largest brains in the animal kingdom weighing approximately 10-11 pounds. Many people don’t know this but they are very easily able to adapt to their surroundings and they are able to remember what they learn. They live about as long as humans and their ...
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Today, witnessing a herd of elephants is becoming increasingly uncommon, as more and more elephants die prematurely every year. Jessica Hatcher, writer for The Guardian News, reported that “There are between 410,...