Anatomy
Communication
Behaviors
Vocabulary
Experiential Learning
100
The reason why elephants have wrinkly skin.
What is to hold water/mud to keep them cool?
100
A feature of the external anatomy of an elephant that is used to communicate but also smell, eat, drink, etc.
What is the trunk?
100
The amount of miles away an elephant can smell water.
What is 12 miles?
100
The term for male elephants.
What are bulls elephants?
100
The name of the organization Avanti’s mentor works for.
What is PAWS (Performing Animal Welfare Society)? 50 extra points if you can remember the whole name!
200
The area of the brain responsible for processing sound cues.
What is the temporal lobe?
200
The number of vocalizations an elephant can make.
What is 70 vocalizations?
200
The reason why male elephants in captivity are kept by themselves.
What is their aggressive behavior (especially when they have an unusually high amount of testosterone during musth)?
200
Sound below the human hearing range.
What is infrasound?
200
The acreage in ARK 2000.
What is 2300 acres?
300
The small structures in an animal’s nose that help them smell.
What are turbinates?
300
The amount of octaves an elephant can communicate in.
What is 10 octaves?
300
Name one common behavior when an elephant is afraid.
What is: 1. Smell the air 2. Posture aggressively 3. Freeze to detect sounds 4. Bunch together & circle young 5. Secrete from temporal gland
300
The leader of an elephant herd.
What is the matriarch?
300
Name 2 of the elephants Avanti saw during her trip.
Who are: 1. Mara 2. Lulu 3. Maggie 4. Thika 5. Toka 6. Iringa 7. Prince
400
The chemical in the oily secretion in the temporal gland.
What is frontalin?
400
Elephants communicate with infrasound for this reason.
What is to find food and resources?
400
Name one characteristics of a complex animal society.
What is: 1. Overlapping generations living together 2. Group Defense 3. Cooperative rearing of young 4. Forming Coalitions
400
The reason why elephants communicate more during the night.
What is temperature inversion?
400
Name one of the founders of PAWS.
Who is Ed Stewart or Pat Derby?
500
Why do elephants drink so much?
To try to forget.
500
Why did the elephants get kicked out of the pool?
Because their trunks kept on falling down.
500
Why don't elephants like playing cards in the jungle?
Because of all the cheetahs!
500
Why do elephants never get rich?
Because they work for peanuts!
500
Where do elephants go for vacation?
Tuskany!
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