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ELEPHANT RESEARCHER

 

Luke Wall 1) _____ (BE) an English leading world elephant researcher who 2) _____ (OBSERVE) and 3) _____ (STUDY) these majestic animals for 20 years. His main research 4) _____ (INVOLVE) elephant intelligence and social interaction. Wall and his colleagues at Chiang Mai University in Thailand 5) _____ (MAKE) some important discoveries in the field. One of which is the finding that elephants’ spending time alone 6) _____ (BRING) a risk factor to their natural behaviour, while spending more time in larger social groups, particularly those that 7) _____ (INCLUDE) young animals, 8) _____ (HAVE) a protective effect. Wall says, “This discovery 9) _____ (SHOW) that the social lives of elephants 10) _____ (PLAY) a large role in their behavioral health, and it 11) _____ (BE) very important for those elephants which 12) _____ (LIVE) in captivity.” Based on the studies, the researcher 13) _____ (ACTIVELY / FIGHT) for the change in the zoo elephant management programs which would support the creation of larger, multigenerational elephant social groupings. However, Wall admits that it 14) _____ (BECOME) more and more difficult to bring some changes to  due to the lack of financing from local governments and animal welfare organisations. Next week he 15) _____ (FLY) to Berlin to take part in The Zoo and Wildlife Health Conference 2017 and deliver his speech on that issue.

 

Recently Wall 16) _____ (ALSO / ENGAGE) in an elephant migration research that his colleagues from London’s Natural History Museum 17) _____ (CARRY) out since the beginning of this century. “It’s so exciting that my fellow friend Victoria Leake 18) _____ (FIND) dwarf elephant fossils on a great number of Mediterranean islands,” he cheers, “and I‘m very happy that I 19) _____ (CONTRIBUTE) to organising her expeditions.“ Wall is keen on discovering how exactly one species could reach so many islands. Though he believes that elephants may have walked as sea levels fell by hundreds of  feet during many ice ages allowing the animals to travel to Sicily and Malta, however it 20) _____ (NOT / EXPLAIN) to him how they appeared on other islands. Also he 21) _____ (NOT / REFUTE) the fact that the animals could have been swept out by the storm or strong currents and have swum to remote places, yet such events 22) _____ (EXTREMELY / BE) rare in the Mediterranean.

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