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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 a more detailed and fact-based information about elephants and elephants society because it gave me information about the elephants what's happening to elephants, what elephants do and how they act. In Assignment America it was only a story about how a Elephant is friends with a dog.
 * 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 was a story about an elephant's relationship with a dog. It gave me information saying that they do everything together and help each other. It says that one day the dog was sick and the elephant waited at the corner for the dog.

Watch the movie How Wolves Change Rivers.
 * 1) **Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the video.** The wolves ate the deer. The deer also changed it's behavior by moving to different places. More plants started to grow. More plants started to grow more animals that eat fruit grew in population such as beers. The wolves also changed the rivers by the rivers reacting to the wolves.
 * 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 sound track was calming for you to be relaxed and interested in the information. The photography was interesting to catch your eye and attention. They support the scientific information because they help you get attention into noticing the information. The more information you are paying attention to then you learn the factors that influence the ecology of the area.
 * 3) **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.
 * 1) **Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the article.** They took the wolves out of the Yellowstone because they were scaring them and they were killing the domestic livestock they liked more. The elk population grew so large it ate up all of the young willow trees until there was none. This affected many animals. They thought that they should bring the wolves back to help balance this out again. Now there is also speculation that the wolves weren't the reason in the first place. Now there are people who think the wolves balance it and don't balance it.
 * 2) **Compare and contrast the facts presented in the article with the facts presented in the video.** The article was just talking about whether the wolves helped or didn't. The facts presented in the video were showing how the wolf helped the ecosystem and changed the river.
 * 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. The source of the information is from their research. She works into online news and online information. She went to the University of Oregon. She currently does
 * 4)  Freelance ,
 * 5)  [|Guardian News & Media] ,
 * 6)  Popular Science

Write a prediction:
 * 1) **How might controlling the migration of elephants impact the environment? Justify your answer.** It could impact the environment because it would help out other animals. The elephants eat animals that eat other animals. There are many factors that help out animals but they also make it worse by eating animals. But eating those animals can be a good thing for other factors too.

Summary - Discuss the following: Why is important to understand


 * 1) **Who created the message?** Emily Gertz wrote the article and different scientists that researched about the Yellowstone environment created the message.
 * 2) **What is the target audience?** The target audience are the people deciding to go to the Yellowstone or for most adults.
 * 3) **What creative techniques are used to attract attention?** They put pictures and put good descriptive words to make Yellowstone seem like a place to visit.
 * 4) **How might different people understand this message differently?** Some people will think that the wolf helped balance the environment others will think the wolf didn't contribute anything.
 * 5) **What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?** The point of view is from the author and from different people from the different sides thinking whether the wolf has or hasn't helped balance the environment.
 * 6) **Why is this message being sent?** This message is being sent to show whether the wolf has or hasn't done anything for Yellowstone. They give facts why it has and facts why it hasn't.