Elephants Know When They Need A Helping Trunk Rhetorical Analysis

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Did you know that elephants are now recognized a highly socially cognitive? The article “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, the passage “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task”, and the video “Elephants Show Cooperation”, prove the new skills that they discovered about Elephants. This experiment conducted on elephants shows that elephants are very socially cognitive, meaning that they know when they can do something alone or with the help of someone. In this experiment, a sliding board was set up with a bowl of corn on each side of the board. Two elephants had to pull on their ends of the rope together to get the food towards them. If one of them pulled the rope by themselves, then the other end would be out of

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