: PBS LearningMedia
This is the final of two episodes about elephants. In this one, the brothers go to the African savannah to check out what life will be like for Emily, the oldest of the three orphans if she ever returns to the wild. What is discovered is a complex family group composed of mothers with their babies and that the group is led by an old matriarchal elephant. We learn about elephant intelligence, care for the young, teamwork, the need for play to sharpen future skills of young elephants, how elephants defend against predators such as lions, and about the ivory trade by humans resulting in the deaths of many elephants per year. Of course, no episode would be complete without evolution and this is what's taught: elephants in "prehistoric" times were bigger than today's two types, they started out as the size of a tapir, and that creatures such as "megistopheriums" hunted "mastadons". That about wraps it up. Goodbye for now.
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