Module 13: Elephant Reading

• what other animal do elephants have conflict with?

  rhinos
• what is the typical cause of elephant aggression?

  • high testosterone in newly matured male elephants
  • competition for land and resources with humans
• what is the newly discovered cause of elephant aggression?

  chronic stress from disruption of social relationships
• where is ecotourism a main source of income?

  uganda
• what is one strategy used to keep elephants out?

  digging a deep trench around a field
• why are elephant social relationships being damaged?


  the loss of elephant elders
• what behaviors do elephants that witness their family members being killed exhibit?

  • abnormal startle response
  • unpredictable asocial behavior
  • inattentive mothering
  • hyperagression
• what is one elephant therapy strategy?

  nondominance system, no discipline or punishment
• how have some orphaned elephants been rehabilitated?

  human caregivers act as surrogate mothers