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1 - It is also, perhaps, the gentlest, but not always! Elephants are like us in some ways. They live for a
long time- fifty or sixty years. They can remember things very well. 2 If a female elephant dies, her
daughters and her grand daughters are sad for many months. They stay with the dead body. Then they carry a
bit of it away with them. They never forget a dead friend.
Elephants are like us, but they are also different. They live in families of females. 3 But the females will
soon send them away. An elephant family keeps only its daughters, mothers and its great grandmothers.
The females stay together for fifty, sixty...,a hundred years. The older animals look after the younger ones.
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And what happens to male elephants? Well, the young males stay with their mothers for a time. Then they
must leave the family. The females just send them away. A male elephant does not often have a friend. 5
Sometimes the females call a male elephant. He can visit them then, and stay for a time. But soon his "wife" and
sisters send him away again. The females have a very happy family life. What do the male elephants think about
it? We don't know.
A. They never forget great sadness or great happiness.
B. He lives apart away from the family, and often away from other male elephants.
C. They like to play with each other and sometimes are injured.
D. There will be a few young males-a few "baby boys".
E. The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example.
F. The elephant is the biggest four-legged animal in the world.
G. The male elephants want to stay with female ones, but they are not welcome.
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