The video and the passages "Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk" and "Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task", both have similarties on the subject of if elephants can help each other or not. In "Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk", the passage talks about how elephants know how to lend a hand when another elephant needs help. Rarely found in other species, elephants have higher levels of social cognition. Many experiments were tested, which led to the ongoing fact that Elephants can help each other when in need. Throughout the trials, the elephants would be released from the rope at different times from the other elephants. Doing this showed that elephants would wait for their partners to help them pull the food on the table. Sometimes however, some elephants were not able to do the trial. "When the partner couldn't do anything, the other one would just give up," Plotnik says. Which shows the elephants understood why the partner was needed, he adds. With these studies, scientists are able to see …show more content…
that elephants need a partner in order to do these trials or else they give up. In the passage "Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task", the passage describes the procedure during the training trials and official trials.
Instead of randomly releasing the elephants, the trials had a mahout(a keeper of an elephant). ... a mahout would walk with his elephant to the single available rope end and train his animal to pick up and pull the rope by using vocal commands. After training, they conducted the experiments. Two mahouts would stand at a release point with the elephants, and ...restrained them by touching the ear or front leg. This assured that both elephants would be calm, so the experiments could be done. Upon release, mahouts turned away from the elephants and remained silent to minimize chances for cuing, and in position behind the elephants for safety. Doing this helped the experiment by showing that the elephants were not trained by anyone and to show the experiment was all raw
reaction. The video, Elephants Show Cooperation, shows and explains what the other passages were about. At first, elephants had done just what they normally did on the other experiments and would walk up and pull the snack towards them. However, through mulitiple other experiments, some results were different. During one experiment, an elephant was released a little bit before the other elephant. After waiting too long, the elephant got impatient and pulled the snack towards them without any help. This pulled the other string away from the other elephant, causing the experiment to fail. What this shows is that the elephants need each other in order to have the experiment work. Another experiment showed different result showing the elephant’s own intelligent. One elephant didn’t pull the rope, but instead stepped on it, while the other pulled. Along with this experiment and many others, the readers now know that elephants have good social cognition and just their own intelligence greater than other species.
From the beginning of the advertisement, we are shown the success of the doctor. The initial shot zooms out from the medical bag which we presume to carry supplies or tools of the medical trade. The doctor then gets into a nice automobile with an “M.D.” addition to his license plate. These signifiers reminds us of his success and authority. During the doctor’s “time out” that is few and far between, he chooses to smoke a Camel cigarette. According to a nationwide survey, more doctors smoke Camels than any other brand. Camels are reported as mild and good tasting. The final shot shows a
According to the beginning of the video, it states, “Scientists now believe [elephants are] among the world’s most cognitively advanced animals.” The outcome of this experiment was so positive that now elephants are one of the world's most advanced animals. However, this took the scientists by surprise. Subsequently, it also states in the video, “Elephants recently aced an IQ test with two of them even figuring out shortcuts the researches hadn't thought of.” This in particular, was most outstanding due to to the fact that the researchers didn’t even think of the shortcut that the elephants made. This really proves that elephants are wise mammals; possibly, even wiser than us humans. To conclude, it states in the video, “Scientists say the test highlights not only the intelligence of individual elephants but also their ability to cooperate and understand the value of teamwork.” This here exhibits that the elephants understand that certain tasks need to be done with the assistance of others, not just by themselves. Thus, as the video illustrates the elephants are more brainy than we
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
In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer wrote about Christopher McCandless, a nature lover in search for independence, in a mysterious and hopeful experience. Even though Krakauer tells us McCandless was going to die from the beginning, he still gave him a chance for survival. As a reader I wanted McCandless to survive. In Into the Wild, Krakauer gave McCandless a unique perspective. He was a smart and unique person that wanted to be completely free from society. Krakauer included comments from people that said McCandless was crazy, and his death was his own mistake. However, Krakauer is able to make him seem like a brave person. The connections between other hikers and himself helped in the explanation of McCandless’s rational actions. Krakauer is able to make McCandless look like a normal person, but unique from this generation. In order for Krakauer to make Christopher McCandless not look like a crazy person, but a special person, I will analyze the persuading style that Krakauer used in Into the Wild that made us believe McCandless was a regular young adult.
Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk is a passage about a study preformed to test elephants' abilities to collaborate. It explains the basic process of the experiment, and provided in-depth analysis of the results. It made many comparisons between the study and other studies and research and noted the opinions of numerous professionals, which helped show the significance of the test's findings. The purpose of this passage was to primarily to be an entertaining article, and secondarily to inform the reader about the experiment. It was very similar to Elephants Console Each Other in tone and style, but differed more from Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk, mainly because it was less informational, and more enjoyable.
...ve with her powers. In general no matter the conflict that arises the elephants always stick together and never become mad at one another. This collectiveness/family unity is a great message to any reader searching for life answers.
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.
The second source is a cartoon. It shows two elephants so induced to themselves they do not notice the little ants getting crushed, as the caption say: “When elephants m...
In Orwell’s reflective narrative, “Shooting an Elephant”, he reveals the truth on imperialism. Through the utilization of irony and the method of appeals, Orwell shows the reader that imperialism is just a definition because the people are in control, not Britain.
Close-calls is the most important literary device used in creating suspense in “Three Skeleton Key.” Close-calls creates suspense by getting the reader’s on the edge of their seats. In the text it says “The chief had just enough time to leap to his feet, and cry for help the rats swarming over him”. This shows that something really bad is happening right now because the rats are now in the tower and so the readers are pulled in and want to know if they will be able get away. Also, someone might argue that all of the other arguments rely on setting. However, it has nothing to do with creating suspense, it is just a location, the story could’ve taken place anywhere else and it still would not matter.
Manipulation of language can be a weapon of mind control and abuse of power. The story Animal Farm by George Orwell is all about manipulation, and the major way manipulation is used in this novel is by the use of words. The character in this book named Squealer employs ethos, pathos, and logos in order to manipulate the other animals and maintain control.
Have you ever watched the show "Toddlers and Tiaras" before? To sum up "Toddlers and Tiaras" it's a TV show that gives us a view on how child beauty pageants really are. The author of the article "Toddlers and Tiaras" Skip Hollandsworth is an award winning journalist who is currently the executive editor in Texas Monthly Magazine. Hollandsworth uses a lot of ethos, pathos and logos throughout the article to prove his point, which is how child beauty pageants are affecting little girls (around the age of six years old) mentally. Ethos means credibility, Pathos means to produce emotion and finally Logos means logic or facts. Throughout the article Hollandsworth explains and describes how these "beauty pageants" are affecting little girls (around the age of six) mentally and how they become insecure of themselves.
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” This is a popular saying that explains that, sometimes, in order to persuade or convince people, one should not use force but words. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, animals overthrow the human leader and start a new life, but some animals want to become the new leaders. To make the other animals obey the pigs, they first have to persuade the farm’s population. Squealer is the best pig for this job because he effectively convinces the animals to follow Napoleon by using different rhetorical devices and methods of persuasion.
The number of African and Asian elephants in North American zoos is declining as a result of many medical issues. A new disease has recently been discovered that is now hindering elephant’s 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 severely declined. It is now estimated that for every elephant that is born in a zoo another three die.
Each man had a different idea of what an elephant is like based off of what they had heard and gathered from discussions between other villagers and travelers. Having heard varying discussions, all of the men had their own perception of the characteristics of an elephant. When the six men were finally taken to experience a real elephant, these preconceived notions of their own imaginations affected their encounter with the elephant. The men could only feel what they believed to be true regarding the animal. Their individual expectations obstructed their abilities to discover the truth. For example, the third blind man believed the elephant to be dangerous and capable of fatally injuring a man with its “terrible horn.” When the third blind man touched the elephant, he felt its tusks and said “‘I was right,’ he decided. ‘This creature is as sharp and deadly as a spear,”’(qtd. in Blubaugh). Because the third blind man imagined the elephant to be dangerous, when he actually encountered the animal his previous perceptions caused him to be biased