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You've read the eBook Elephants Under Pressure and you've watched Assignment America.
 * 1) Which gave you more detailed and fact-based information about elephants and elephant society? Justify your answer with examples. **Elephants Under Pressure gave me more information about elephants and elephant society such as showing different kinds of elephants.**
 * 2) Which was the most successful in helping you to understand animal relationships? Justify your answer with examples. **Assignment America gave me more information about animal relationships because it talks about the relationship between two specific animals, the elephant and the dog.**

Watch the movie How Wolves Change Rivers.
 * 1) Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the video. **When the wolves returned, the deer population lowered, which helped the land recover, which caused trees to grow and caused rivers to become more stable, these things caused more animals to live in the area.**
 * 2) Discuss how the photography and sound tract help to support the scientific information and help to develop a deeper understanding of factors that influence the ecology of the area. **The photography and sound track helped support the scientific information because they set the feeling of the video.**
 * 3) Who created this video? What is the producer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information? **This video was created by a company called Sustainable Man.**

Read Has the Reintroduction of Wolves Really Saved Yellowstone.
 * 1) Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the article. **The article explains how the reintroduction of wolves may not have helped Yellowstone much after all, it says that the reintroduction of wolves may cause just as many problems as taking them away.**
 * 2) Compare and contrast the facts presented in the article with the facts presented in the video. **In the video, the facts are all positive, they do not state any of the negative effects of bringing the wolves back. In the article the positive effects and the negative effects are compared.**
 * 3) Who wrote this article? What is the writer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information? **The author is probably a scientist who studies wildlife and ecosystems.**

Write a prediction:
 * 1) How might controlling the migration of elephants impact the environment? Justify your answer.

Summary - Discuss the following:


 * 1) Who created the message? **Someone who wanted everyone to know that wolves being reintroduced didn't really help Yellowstone.**
 * 2) What is the target audience? **The target audience is people who are interested in this topic.**
 * 3) What creative techniques are used to attract attention? **One creative technique used is question and answer.**
 * 4) How might different people understand this message differently? **Different people may understand the message differently based on how wolves affect them, and the opinions they have about them.**
 * 5) What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message? **In this message, an opinion that is against the wolves if represented.**
 * 6) Why is this message being sent? **This message is being sent to raise awareness about the topic of wolves in Yellowstone Nation Park.**