Elephants Can Len A Helping Trunk Summary

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In the articles, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk” and “Elephants Console Each Other” the authors’ purpose are similar, but they’re also different. Author 1, Virginia Morell, seems to focus more on the social side of elephants, and using more informational text than emotional. Than Author 3, Virginia Morell-again, focuses more on the emotional aspects of elephants, trying to use more emotions. Even though they talk about completely different topics, the authors tend to overlap when discussing the experiments. Author 1, Virginia Morell, who wrote “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, talks about the cooperative and social capabilities of elephants through an experiment. She even states that Elephants are cooperative on paragraph 1 stating