Elephants use mental maps to track family members

Link:http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12998-elephants-use-mental-maps-to-track-family-members.html


Summary: Elephants have a very good memory. This has been proving to be true, that elephants keep track of there relatives by a good memory.Collecting urine and soil samples form the dirt helps them smell differnt elephants. Each elphant have there on type of odor.


Ecology
What kind of relationship is being described in the article? Family communication between species

Describe the niche being discussed in the article.Living in difrent families

List three things you learned from this article in your own words.Elephants hve there own way of communication, they live in families, the use urine for communication.

What impact would the topic of the article have on the biosphere?There will be a lot of leaves on the trees and no help for the farmers if they die