Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
1. Elephant babies like coconut oil. This discovery has saved the life of
hundreds of orphaned, in weaned elephants, left behind when their
mothers were killed, victims of the ivory wars that have catastrophically
reduced elephants populations across Africa
2. The discovery came after two decades of offorts by the renowned
conservationist Daphne Sheldricks, who has died aged 83. She devoted
most of her life rescuing young elephants and releasing them back in to
the wild
3. When she first made attempts to keep the orphaned babies alive, often at
one or two years old, with other milk sources, they remained malnourished
and faded into death. It was only after trying every combination she could
find that she hit on one baby milk formula from Europe, which contained
coconut oil that seemed to work. She and the elephants never looked back,
and mostly in the wild, thanks to her hand rearing
4. Her work grew from her care of orphaned elephants foujd by her husband,
David Sheldrick, chief warden at the Tsavo National Park in Kenya in the
1960s. By the time her sanctuary was well. Established, in the late 70s and
80s, each elephant had its own stal, as otherwise they would disturb one
another, was bottle- fed every three hours, and was given blankets,
raincoats and sunscreen as needed. A keeper slept with each animal under
a year old, alternating lest the babies grow too dependent.
5. Often, the elephants arrived traumatized, having experienced the lethal
violence and cruelty of poaching. It was crucial, in her view, to recognize
their grief and help them to overcome it. "They are emotionally human
animals, she told journalists. "You have to think in human terms. How
does a child feel when it has lost its whole family and is suddenly in the
hands of the enemy?
6. Throughout her life, Sheldrick championed the ability of elephants to
communicate and their capacity for feeling. Once, she recounted, a
wrenched the tusks from a newly killed bull elephant and threw them into
the jungle, before the eyes of the poachers
Questions
a. Who was Daphne Sheldrick? What role did Daphne's husband play in her
work?
b. Why was Daphne Sheldrick able to reduce save the lives of the orphaned
elephants?
c. How did poaching affect the elephants? How were elephants kept and fed
in the sanctuary?
d. What proved that elephants could feel and communicate?
e. The synonym of 'drastically as given in paragraph 1 is
1. catastrophically Il Dramatically lll. Dominantly iv. deeply
f. The antonym of overfed/ obese' as given in paragraph 3 is
Answers
Answer:
Below are the responses to all of the queries.
Explanation:
(a)DBE, a Kenyan of British ancestry, was a writer, conservationist, and specialist in animal husbandry. In "The Duke and I," Daphne Bridgerton marry Peter Basset, Duke of Hastings.
(b) Young elephants who had lost their moms could take a milk solution that Ms Sheldrick created, and she began hand-feeding them.
(c) The researchers discovered that elephant population growth is indirectly slowed by poaching. Poaching ultimately causes the population to decline since orphaned calves have a decreased chance of surviving.
(d) According to a new study, Koshik the Asian elephant can "speak" five phrases by tucking his trunk in place of his lips.
(e)The alternative of "drastically" in the first paragraph is Il Dramatically
(f) According to paragraph three, the opposite of being overfed or fat is skinny, feeble, and slender.
Therefore, the responses to all of the queries.
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