Elephant Helping Trunk
Elephants are intelligent, gifted, and exquisite mammals that can figure out tasks by themselves or cooperatively. In the article “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, the passage “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task”, and the video “Elephants Show Cooperation”, the sources all argue that elephants are very shrewd animals that are capable of completing tasks. All of the sources say that elephants are considered to be cooperative, clever, prudent, and more.
In the article “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk,” the scientist are testing Asian Elephants, also known as Elephas Maximus, of their cooperative skills using tasks like pulling ropes to receive benefits like treats. In the article it states “Each pair was released to walk to their waiting ropes. If one animal pulled the rope before the other, the rope would slip out, leaving the table-and treats-in place. “That taught them to pull together,” says Joshua Plotnik.” This excerpt is basically explaining to the readers, what they do to train these elephants. In the video they show exactly what they do while in the article they just explain what they perform with the elephants. To further understand if the elephants got the idea, they released the elephants at different times …show more content…
“In training trials, a mahout would walk with his elephant to the single available rope end and train his animal to pick up the rope by using vocal commands. 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.” This excerpt helps the reader understand how they specifically train these elephants. In the article it also talks about some of the tasks they make them do, like pulling ropes or working with others to complete the
In the article “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk,” the scientist are testing Asian Elephants, also known as Elephas Maximus, of their cooperative skills using tasks like pulling ropes to receive benefits like treats. In the article it states “Each pair was released to walk to their waiting ropes. If one animal pulled the rope before the other, the rope would slip out, leaving the table-and treats-in place. “That taught them to pull together,” says Joshua Plotnik.” This excerpt is basically explaining to the readers, what they do to train these elephants. In the video they show exactly what they do while in the article they just explain what they perform with the elephants. To further understand if the elephants got the idea, they released the elephants at different times …show more content…
“In training trials, a mahout would walk with his elephant to the single available rope end and train his animal to pick up the rope by using vocal commands. 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.” This excerpt helps the reader understand how they specifically train these elephants. In the article it also talks about some of the tasks they make them do, like pulling ropes or working with others to complete the