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Elephants Under Pressure gave me more detailed and fact-based information about elephants and elephant society because every page was filled with facts and pictures about a broad range of elephants while Assignment America only talked about one elephant.
 * Which gave you more detailed and fact-based information about elephants and elephant society? Justify your answer with examples. **

Assignment America was the most successful in helping me to understand animal relationships because Elephants Under Pressure didn't talk about any relationship between animals while Assignment America talked about the elephant and the dog.
 * Which was the most successful in helping you to understand animal relationships? Justify your answer with examples. **

The introduction of the wolves in the Yellowstone National Park created a trophic cascade where the entire ecosystem of the national park improved just because of the wolves. The wolves "change rivers" by lowering the population of deer who eat the grass. With more grass the areas surrounding the rivers were stronger and didn't get eroded by the rivers as easily, making the rivers more narrow.
 * Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the video. **

The photography and soundtrack helped to support the scientific information and helped to develop a deeper understanding of factors that influence the ecology by building suspense and drawing importance to the changes brought by the wolves. It also gives you an idea of how the wolves looked and where the changes took place.
 * 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.**

George Monbiot in collaboration with Sustainable Man created this video. This is a company that wants to help nature. George Monbiot also has very similar goals to Sustainable Man. George Monbiot received a degree from Brasenose College in Oxford. The sources of information are "Greater Yellowstone Coalition – Wolves” (http://bit.ly/1lK4LaT) “Wolf Mountain” (http://bit.ly/1hgi6JE) “Primodial – Yellowstone” (https://vimeo.com/77097538) “Timelapse: Yellowstone National Park” (http://bit.ly/1kF5axc) “Yellowstone” (http://bit.ly/1bPI6DM) “Howling Wolves – Heulende Wölfe” (http://bit.ly/1c2Oidv) Interview from TED: “For more wonder, rewild the world” by George Monbiot “Fooled by Nature: Beaver Dams” (http://bit.ly/NGgQSU)
 * Who created this video? What is the producer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information? **

The scientific facts in the article are basically the same facts in the video except that the article doesn't believe that the wolves helped yellowstone national park because the willows that they supposedly helped haven't improved at all.
 * Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the article. **

In the article, the wolves lowered the population of elk while in the video the wolves lowered the population of deer. After doing a little research I found that the narrator was british and the british use the word deer to describe deer, elk, and mules while in the US we reserve the word deer for mules. Also the article describes the wolves as the apex predators while the video doesn't use that word. Most of the other information is the same.
 * Compare and contrast the facts presented in the article with the facts presented in the video. **

Emily Gertz wrote this article. Emily Gertz has written articles for Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Rolling Stone. The source of the information is on her online portfolio and from her research.
 * Who wrote this article? What is the writer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information? **