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**You've read the eBook Elephants Under Pressure and you've watched Assignment America.**
Elephants Under Pressure gave the more detailed and fact-based information about elephants and elephant society because the book describes what countries they have been located in over the years and the social groups, eating habits, and size of elephants Assignment America was most successful in helping me to understand animal relationships because it's main idea was the relationship between Tarra and Bella and their strong bond.
 * **Which gave you more detailed and fact-based information about elephants and elephant society? Justify your answer with examples.**
 * **Which was the most successful in helping you to understand animal relationships? Justify your answer with examples.**

**Watch the movie How Wolves Change Rivers.**
The wolves changed almost everything in Yellowstone by only reducing the population of deer in the area. Because of the reduced number of deer, species such as mice and bunnies have started to increase. Since the population of mice and bunnies increased, the population of raptors has increased, and more chain reactions like that. But the most extraordinary thing about the decreased population of the deer, was the change in the rivers. Since the population of deer decreased, the rivers expanded, more pools have formed, and the banks have become narrower. All of this because the deer quit grazing on the grass, so the banks of the rivers quit collapsing. The photography helped show the beauty of the park, since the wolves have returned, by showing how much greener the park has become, the change in the river,and the new wildlife that has appeared. The soundtrack helped by allowing the reader to hear and take in the beauty while watching the video. Sustainable Man created this video. Sustainable Man's academic background for work is that it researched pictures and videos about the work and put them together to make the video. The source of the information is from a man named George Monbiot.
 * **Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the video.**
 * **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.**
 * **Who created this video? What is the producer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information?**

Read Has the Reintroduction of Wolves Really Saved Yellowstone.
The article states that even though the wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone, Emma Marris says the willows aren't recovering as well as people have hoped. She says this is because the wolves don't actually scare elk away from their usual feeding grounds, and the elk would rather take their chances with the wolves than starve to death. Another reason, she says, is that the wolves may have been introduced too late and too much damage was all ready done. Also. since the deer population has decreased and more willow has grown, the beavers have become more active and are starting to eat willow. The video says wolves have dramatically increased the willow regrowth, but the article states that the willows haven't grown back as much as people hoped because of various reasons. Emily Gertz wrote this article. Online since 1989, Emily cut her journalist's teeth as an environmental news producer during the salad days of digital news for OregonLive.com, the web site of The Oregonian newspaper. Emily is a current board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and organizes the SEJ-NYC Meetup on Meetup.com. The sources of the information came from people with opposing statements of the __How Wolves change Rivers__ video.
 * **Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the article.**
 * **Compare and contrast the facts presented in the article with the facts presented in the video.**
 * **Who wrote this article? What is the writer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information?**

Write a prediction:
It could allow the environment to regrow where the elephants were constantly walking, and because of the ban of elephants in cities Bangkok, it will allow them to avoid being killed by police. Also, they could direct the elephants to areas where poachers are non-active sot preserve their life, and direct them to areas where their is food so they don't have to eat trash. (p.11) (p.12) (p.16)
 * **How might controlling the migration of elephants impact the environment? Justify your answer.**

Summary - Discuss the following: Why is important to understand?
People that care about the topic the are writing about. The target audience is anyone that wants to help. They used things like pictures, making videos, and having a nice voice over to attract attention People might think that the message they are trying to send is false because they support the opposite of the message, but, on the other hand, there are the people that agree with the message and want to do as much as possible to help. To take care of what is around you and when you mess something fix it are values. Some lifestyles are the people that live in the cities and the the people that live in rural areas. The point of view is the author's The message being sent is whatever the author feels is right.
 * **Who created the message?**
 * **What is the target audience?**
 * **What creative techniques are used to attract attention?**
 * **How might different people understand this message differently?**
 * **What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?**
 * **Why is this message being sent?**