Elephant Helping Trunk

First, each of the sources share similar information, but they all have different content. In Virginia Morell’s article, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, Morell gives a general overview of the whole experiment. She writes, “A team of scientists modified a classic experiment first administered to chimpanzees in the 1930s, which requires two animals to work together to earn a treat. If they don’t cooperate, neither gets the reward.” Next, the video “Elephants Show Cooperation” is quite different from the article when it comes to content. In the video, the host narrates as each clip of elephants during the trials play. Clearly, the creators of the video wanted to display each individual scenario rather than a general summary. Lastly, the passage from Joshua M. Plotnik’s, “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task” has content that contrasts from the article and video. The majority of Plotnik’s writing includes facts and statistics from the study. For example, “Success rate per day of delayed
In the article, “Elephants Can A Helping Trunk” by Virginia Morell, a picture is included at the end of the article. This picture can help the reader to further understand the article by clarifying how the objects in the experiment were set up. Unlike Morell’s article, “Elephants Show Cooperation” was a video. The video still helped to show the reader that the experiment had different outcomes had different outcomes and showed how it was done, rather than having the reader imagine it. Additionally, “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task” used a chart to help the reader further understand the experiements. The chart helped the reader clearly understand the success rate and release intervals in terms of percetages and inequalities, unlike in the former two sources. Overall, the way that all three sources help the reader visualize the topic