ElephantsAndWolvesSS15

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 Preasure gave me a more detailed and fact-based information about elephants and elephant society because it was written and gave lots of detail. It gave a large amount compared to Assignment America because Assignment America was a 2 minute news story that was informal and gave basic information about the relationship of Tara and Bella.
 * 2) **Which was the most successful in helping you to understand animal relationships? Justify your answer with examples.** Assignment America was the most successful in helping me to understand animal relationships because it gave more visual examples about the story, was said informally, which makes it more interesting, and affected me because it was a touching story.

Watch the movie How Wolves Change Rivers.
 * 1) **Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the video.** Wolves change rivers and the ecosystem because they are limiting factors to some plants and animals, leading to making other species thrive.
 * 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 gave corresponding pictures and portrayed the mood and style of the video.
 * 3) **Who created this video?** What is the producer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information? The video was created by Sustainable Man. The video gives no evidence of the producer's ascademic backround for work, but, I infered that he has a high intellect with a great education. The source of the information was from Sustainable Man and past discoveries from scientists.

Read Has the Reintroduction of Wolves Really Saved Yellowstone.
 * 1) **Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the article.** Since the wolf is the apex predator of the Yellowstone ecosystem, it provides balance to the ecosystem by limiting elk, which let vegetation and other animals thrive. Since the wolves had came back, the population of willows was restored because of the decrease of elk. The only reason wolves were taken out of yellowstone was because people were afraid, but now realize that they play a vital role in Yellowstone's ecosystem. This is proven, but scientists don't really know the apex predator theory.
 * 2) **Compare and contrast the facts presented in the article with the facts presented in the video.**
 * 3) **Who wrote this article?** What is the writer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information? Emily Gertz wrote this article as well as other science articles. She is a scientist that went to the University of Oregon. She is a journalist and editor and had 10 years of past expierience being a scientist, as well as many other related occupations. Her source of information was probably a handful of websites and books about the topic, as well as her scientific findings.

Write a prediction:


 * 1) How might controlling the migration of elephants impact the environment? Justify your answer. It will because the limiting factors needed to balance the environment will lack, leading to an irregularity in the ecosystem, causing something to go extinct.

Summary - Discuss the following: Why is important to understand


 * 1) Who created the message? Emily Gertz created the message.
 * 2) What is the target audience? The target audience is people who are interested in recent scientific findings.
 * 3) What creative techniques are used to attract attention? The introduction paragraph gives a story begining with, "once apon a time" and gives a brief overview of the topic. She also gives us great information with a combination of simple, compound, and complex sentences that flow well.
 * 4) How might different people understand this message differently? A person that has actually been to Yellowstone will probably understand this message differently because they'd probably seen it either when there was no wolves, or when they reintroduced them.
 * 5) What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message? The message is in 3rd person POV and gives values to wolves and represents the lifestyle of an educated scientist.
 * 6) Why is this message being sent? The message is being sent because wolves are stereotyped as heartless, meat eating carnivores that do no good to the environment when they are actually very important.