Compare And Contrast Elephant And Morell

Most have heard the phrase, “ An elephant never forgets.”, but elephants have a lot more special qualities according to Plotnik and Morell. While reading it is revealed elephants can have similar behaviors, although the authors have contrasting purposes for writing. The authors present elephants unique behaviors by explaining, they are intelligent, empathetic, and can understand cooperation.
Although, Morell and Plotnik both provided information on elephant behavior, Morell showed compassion for elephant intelligence while Plotnik provided a detailed experiment to be recreated. In Morrel’s passage Elephants can Lend a Helping Trunk, she compassionately states, “It’s particularly striking that the elephants were able to inhibit pulling, longer
But, elephants have many different abilities that many people are not aware of, like compassion and empathy. For instance, in Morell’s passage Elephants can Lend a Helping Trunk, she explains, Elephants realized they needed their partners to get what they wanted, so they would sit and wait for their partner to pull the rope. They were able to use cooperation to perform a given task. This shows, elephants can understand why they need their partner. Humans must use cooperation to do many things, in sports you need to work as a team to win. Showing elephants are very intelligent for being alike to a human. This is also shown in Plortink’s article Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk as it says, The experiment was performed to test and show elephants strong ability to learn. The Mauhots taught the elephants commands in which they used in the experiment. In Plotnik’s article, it is clear he wants to show how fast an elephant can adapt and learn. But, like Morell he shows their intelligence as they can learn commands so quickly. Morell also shows elephants ability to be empathetic in Elephants Console Each other as she states, “ Mae Perm also makes loud chirps, which are known to be reassuring calls, and then caresses Jokia with her trunk, finally placing it into Jokia’s mouth which might send a signal, “ I’m here to help you not hurt you.”” The