Both the reading and the lecture talk about how elephants' behavior is amazing in humans' eyes. The author of the excerpt provides three specific and unbelievable behaviors of elephants that are the reason for our interested in elephants. Nonetheless, the professor in the lecture denies the author's opinion. She claims that such a considering comes from some misunderstanding of humans toward elephants' behaviors. Following that the professor rejects these three behaviors of elephants as meaningful ones.
First and foremost, according to the author of the article, elephants are aware of their death time, in fact, they know they will be died soon, because of that they go away from their group and live near the water until their death. However, the professor rejects this thought by referring to weak teeth of older elephants which make them look for softer vegetation to feed on. In the professor's viewpoint, the aforementioned weakness is the roots of their living away of their group, especially noticing to the fact that vegetation near water is softer than otherwise. Considering this, it is not surprising to find elephants' bone exclusively in a place. One another point said by the professor is that some older elephants live among their group.
The professor further asserts that elephants are very sensitive inasmuch as they can be learned to follow a specific pattern, for instance, they can be trained to paint a picture by their trunks. It is important to notice that such an ability do not mean that elephants know flower or other pictures painted by themselves. Such an explanation proposed by the professor refutes the idea of the author of the reading that elephants are art presenting.
The author of the article lasting insists that elephant afraid of mice because they live places where occupied by a few mice. Nevertheless, the professor reputes this by stating that such behavior is not because of their aware. In fact, they get away from animals that they are not familiar with. For instance, elephants in zoos see mice many times and are familiar with such an animal, so they are not at all in the scare of mice.
Both the reading and the lecture talk about how elephants'
behavior
is amazing in humans' eyes. The
author
of the excerpt provides three specific and unbelievable
behaviors
of
elephants
that are the reason for our interested in
elephants
. Nonetheless, the
professor
in the lecture denies the author's opinion. She claims that such a considering
comes
from
some
misunderstanding of humans toward elephants'
behaviors
. Following that the
professor
rejects these three
behaviors
of
elephants
as meaningful ones.
First
and foremost, according to the
author
of the article,
elephants
are aware of their death time, in fact, they know they will be
died
soon
,
because
of that they go away from their group and
live
near the water until their death.
However
, the
professor
rejects this
thought
by referring to weak teeth of older
elephants
which
make
them look for softer vegetation to feed on. In the professor's viewpoint, the aforementioned weakness is the roots of their living away of their group,
especially
noticing to the fact that vegetation near water is softer than
otherwise
. Considering this, it is not surprising to find elephants' bone exclusively in a place. One another point said by the
professor
is that
some
older
elephants
live
among their group.
The
professor
further
asserts that
elephants
are
very
sensitive inasmuch as they can
be learned
to follow a specific pattern,
for instance
, they can
be trained
to paint a picture by their trunks. It is
important
to notice that such an ability do not mean that
elephants
know flower or other pictures painted by themselves. Such an explanation proposed by the
professor
refutes the
idea
of the
author
of the reading that
elephants
are art presenting.
The
author
of the article lasting insists that
elephant
afraid of mice
because
they
live
places where occupied by a few mice.
Nevertheless
, the
professor
reputes this by stating that such
behavior
is not
because
of their aware. In fact, they
get
away from animals that they are not familiar with.
For instance
,
elephants
in zoos
see
mice
many
times and are familiar with such an animal,
so
they are not at all in the scare of mice.