Understanding Elephant Communication

The phrase hooked on elephants is used in paragraphs 7 and 20 to show that Katy

• has developed a passion for studying elephants.

• has moved onto studying other social animals.

• is interested in studying all social animals.

• will study other animals similar to elephants.

Why does the author include paragraphs 1 and 2 in the passage?

• to explain that elephants have more ways to communicate with each other than humans

• to connect known information about the social behaviors of elephants with the new discovery of elephant talk

• to prove that some elephants prefer living alone to living in a herd

• to describe how the social behaviors of female elephants are different from those of male elephants

Based on the passage, which factors are related to when elephants do most of their calling?

• the distance between elephant herds and other animals

• the volume and direction of sounds

• the number of elephants and their newborn calves

• the temperatures of the ground and air

What do the first picture and the information in the passage best help the reader understand?

• the amount of time Katy spent recording elephant sounds

• when Katy became interested in elephant sounds

• how Katy records elephant sounds

• the reason Katy chose to study elephant sounds

Based on the passage, what is one way elephants are similar to humans?

• Male elephants live apart from the herd.

• When related elephants meet, they use many different calls.

• Elephants do most of their calling at certain times of the day.

• Elephants have their own characteristics.

Which quotation from the passage best supports the answer in Part A?

• “Adult males live in separate bachelor herds, or alone, or visiting with many families.” (paragraph 1)

• “She began to think of those elephants as individuals, each with its own personality.” (paragraph 6)

Which two statements best describe how Katy Payne’s research at the zoo led to her discovery in Kenya?

• She spent lots of time studying the elephants in the zoo in Portland.

• She was interested in the communication of other animals.

• She felt sound that humans could not hear.

• She learned about infrasound with the help of other researchers.

• She teamed up with other scientists in Kenya.

What are two main ideas from “Elephant Talk”?

• Elephants talk to one another for many reasons.

• Elephants in the wild talk just as those that live in zoos.

• Scientists used different methods to understand elephant talk.

• Elephants only talk at certain times of the day.

• Scientists studied birds and elephant talk in the wild.

Which two quotations best support the answer to Part A?

• “She also learned from the keepers, who told her about some of the things elephants had done.” (paragraph 6)

• “By watching elephants while recording their sounds, the team was able to figure out several different calls.” (paragraph 13)

• “Could it be that the elephants were talking in sounds that her ears couldn’t hear?” (paragraph 8)

• “There’s a let’s- go call used by an elephant that seemed to want the family to get moving (paragraph 14)

• “Elephants are highly social animals. In Africa they live together in groups of related females with their calves, often led by the grandmother of the family.” (paragraph 1)