Scovone Star Magazine 2016-2017 | Page 20

Elephants in the House! migrate just like butterflies and birds, but on the ground, not in the sky. One example for a type of elephant that migrates is the Mali elephant. Those types of elephants like to migrate with their herd. Elephants are really smart animals. Because they know when to migrate. The elephants know when to migrate when it rains. That’s when they know when it’s time to migrate. There is a leader in the elephant herd just like birds in a flock. Instead, the leader has a special name. It’s called, the Matriarch[Matriarch] The Matriarch is the oldest female,not male, elephant in the herd. When the Matriarch dies, she gets replaced by her daughter, not son. Male elephants can not be the leaders, for some reason. Elephants have choices to do with their group. They have to choose to leave, or stay. When a male elephant is around teenage or an adult it will have to leave it’s home group for some reason. While females have to choose stay, or, leave the group.If you were an elephant, will you leave, or would you stay in your herd? Now that you know some elephants and their herds, you are able to survive and you know what you may or may not want to do in your life. Since you're an elephant you know how elephants act, and you need to act like it. Also, you are in a sanctuary but, you are lucky too, your trainer is someone named Katlin. Katlin says,”The animal training field is very competitive, so I had to take any job I could get. I did not have a preference at the beginning, but once I ended up here with the elephants, I fell in love and can’t imagine working with anything else.” You are lucky! Would you be happy as a elephant? why? This is two elephants in a field of daisies. This is an elephant reaching to get food. – 20 –