TPO 51 - Integrated Writing

The passage stated that the elephants were aware of death. This was supported by the fact that when the elephants grow old, they would wander off from the herd and find water places. However the lecture challenges that the elephants wander off from their herd was not because that they were aware death was coming instead it was that their teeth would eventually become not available for chewing hard plants witch most elephants eat, and the softer plants grow near water which was misunderstanding called the elephant graveyards. It was actually because that they ate the plants near and eventually died there.

Then the reading passage proposed that the elephants can draw some elephants that were trained to hold paint brushes and paint animals or other recognizable figures. The lecture disagrees with the reading. It said that it is just a misunderstanding. Its when the trainers struck their ears and trained them to draw lines and strokes and remember them and use special ways to struck their ears and to let encourage them to repeat the pattern.

Finally, the passage stated that they have a fear to those of the smaller animals like mice instead of the larger animals that could actually do harm like tigers and lions which also share their living grounds. The lecture challenges that the elephants were just having a fear of animals that were unfamiliar. To those elephants that live where there were mice common, the elephants just ignore them, so it is just the unfamiliarity.