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Reаding Sectiоn 3: Reаd the pаssage. Then, decide if each sentence is true оr false.Elephants After the trauma оf attack and loss comes the healing—and a richer understanding of the emotions and intelligence of elephants."Elephants are very human animals," according to Daphne Sheldrick, wife of naturalist and founder of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, in Nairobi, Kenya. The Trust is the world's most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation center, and the keepers there have no doubts that elephants have emotions just like humans.Daphne explains: “Their emotions are exactly the same as ours. They've lost their families, have seen their mothers slaughtered, and they come here as orphans filled with aggression—devastated, broken, and grieving. They suffer from nightmares and sleeplessness.”Studies show that structures in the elephant brain are strikingly similar to those in humans. MRI scans of an elephant's brain suggest it has a large hippocampus, the area linked to memory, and a substantial part called the limbic system, which processes emotions. The elephant brain has also been shown to have special neurons associated with self-awareness, empathy, and social awareness in humans.Daphne has worked intimately with all sorts of African animals for 30 years. “One just has to look at an elephant group to understand the importance of family,” she said. But, she says, these are sad and perilous days for the world's largest land animal. When not being killed for their tusks or for bush meat, they are struggling against loss of habitat due to human population pressures and drought.The nursery takes in orphan elephants from all over Kenya, many victims of poaching or human-wildlife conflict, and raises them until they are no longer milk dependent. Once healed and stabilized at the nursery, they are moved more than a hundred miles southeast to two holding centers in Tsavo National Park. There, at their own pace, which can be up to eight or ten years, they gradually make the transition back into the wild, with their emotions intact.Any wild elephant group is, in essence, one large and highly sensitive organism. Young elephants are raised within a family of doting female caregivers, beginning with the birth mother and then branching out to include sisters, cousins, aunts, grandmothers, and established friends. These bonds endure over a life span that can be as long as 70 years.Young elephants stay close to their mothers and extended family members—males until they are about 14, females for life. When a calf is threatened or harmed, all the other elephants comfort and protect it. When close to each other, elephants employ a range of vocalizations, from low rumblings to high-pitched screams and trumpets, along with assorted visual signals. They express a range of emotions using their trunk, ears, head, and tail. When they need to communicate over longer distances, they use powerful low-frequency, rumbling calls that can be heard by others more than a mile away.After a death, family members show signs of grief and exhibit ritualistic behavior. Field biologists such as Joyce Poole, who has studied Africa's elephants for more than 35 years, describe elephants trying to lift the dead body and covering it with dirt and brush. Poole once watched a female stand guard over her stillborn baby for three days, her head, ears, and trunk drooped in grief. Elephants may revisit the bones of the deceased for months, even years, touching them with their trunks and creating paths to visit the carcass.Poole suspects that some threatened elephant populations might be suffering from chronic stress and trauma brought on by human encroachment and killing. Before the international ivory trade ban in 1989, poaching took a steep toll on many elephant populations and in some instances significantly altered their social structure because poachers tended to target older elephants. Field biologists found that the number of older female caregivers as well as bulls in vulnerable groups had fallen drastically. In Uganda, for instance, one study reported that many females between the ages of 15 and 25 had no close family members whatsoever.In the decades since the ban, some populations have stabilized, though most elephants remain threatened by humans. As poaching has flared up in the past five years in the Congo Basin and large strips of central and eastern Africa, many elephant families there have lost most of their adult females. Where such social upheaval exists, calves are being raised by ever more inexperienced females. An increasing number of young orphaned elephants, many of which have witnessed the death of a parent through culling or at the hands of poachers, are coming of age in the absence of the traditional support system. "The loss of older elephants," says Bradshaw, "and the extreme psychological and physical trauma of witnessing the massacres of their family members interferes with a young elephant's normal development."But if elephants can wound like us, they can heal like us as well, perhaps more readily. With humans acting as stand-ins for their mothers, along with the help of the other nursery elephants, the majority of the orphans that survive recover to become fully functional wild elephants again, along with their humanlike ability to feel love, anger, joy, fear, and bravery. ------------------------------The main idea of this article is about helping elephants who have lost their parents