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You've read the eBook Elephants Under Pressure and you've watched Assignment America. //**Elephants Under Pressure**// gave more detailed and fact-based information about elephants and elephant society. //**Assignment America**// gave more information about the relationship between specific animals in specific places. //**Elephants Under Pressure**// gave information about elephants and relationships between elephants and humans all over the world. //**Assignment America**// because it showed me that no matter which animals happen to get stuck together in a sanctuary or anything, they can become the best of friends.
 * 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.
 * 1) Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the video. The narrator told us that without wolves, the vegetation wouldn't last long because the deer had nothing to hunt them, and they were the ones that ate the most vegetation. When the wolves returned, they ate deer, allowing the trees to come back, which served as the starting point of the existence of many other animals that had gone from 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 images painted me a picture of what nature was before the wolves and then how nature is supposed to be.
 * 3) Who created this video? What is the producer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information? George Monbiot created the video. His

Read Has the Reintroduction of Wolves Really Saved Yellowstone.
 * 1) Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the article.
 * 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 the article.

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

Summary - Discuss the following: Why is important to understand


 * 1) Who created the message?
 * 2) What is the target audience?
 * 3) What creative techniques are used to attract attention?
 * 4) How might different people understand this message differently?
 * 5) What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?
 * 6) Why is this message being sent?


 * 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.
 * ** Discuss answers to the following questions as a group: ** (1 ) What is a trophic cascade? (2) What is a food chain? (3) How long had the wolves been absent from Yellowstone? (4) Without wolves, how did the increasing deer population affect the ecology of Yellowstone? (5) How did the deer react when the wolves were reintroduced? (6) What does "regenerate" mean? What caused the trees to begin to regenerate? (7) What helped the beaver population to increase? (8) What is a "niche"? How did the increasing beaver population create additional niches? (9) How did this trophic cascade cause the rivers to become more stable? Provide specific examples of the changes to the rivers and river banks.
 * ** Discuss in groups 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? **


 * ** Discuss answers to the following questions as a group: ** (1) With the wolves absent from Yellowstone park, what happened to the elk population? (2) How did the elk population affect the trees, especially the willow trees? (3) What is a food web? Why is the wolf an "apex predator" in a food web? (4) What is one of the main animals that wolves eat? (5) Why are the willows in some areas not recovering very fast? (6) What is one reason the beaver population decreased while the wolves were absent from the area? (7) What are other factors that might have affected the population of elks and beavers?
 * ** Compare reading the article with watching the video. Which was easier to understand? Why? **
 * ** Who wrote this article? What is the writer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information? **