Amboseli Elephant Research · Part 4

Methodology

• The elephant population has been studied for almost forty years.

• Records of many elephants’ dates of birth and also of their 31 have been kept.

• Play-back of elephant calls and DNA analysis were also used.

Findings

• The social system of elephants has many 32 .

Co-operation

• Two elephants worked together to get food using a 33 .

Flexibility

• Some moved to a new area when there was a lack of 34 .

Emotion

• They may move the 35 of another elephant after death.

Intelligence

• Their brain 36 is quite high in comparison with that of their body.

Male elephants

• pass through periods of virility called ‘musth’

• The way they 37 is one obvious change.

Elephants need to live a long time.

• Older males make better mates: older females recognize 38 .

What still needs to be discovered

• How elephants use smell – difficult to study this in the 39 .

• How 40 elephants are to one another.