Use resources to determine patterns in behavior - 1st Grade Science

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For up to the first three years of a baby elephant's life, they depend on their mothers to feed them. Around age two, the baby calf starts to eat on its own but still needs its mother's milk. The other female elephants in the herd - it's older cousins and aunts - will protect the calf, help the mother find food, and watch the baby. The mother elephants show them how to find food and what is best to eat. Once the babies become mothers, they will teach their babies the same lessons.

What pattern of behavior can be learned in this passage about elephants?

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Female elephants in a heard protect and teach the baby elephants how to survive. They rely on their mothers not only for milk but also important lessons that they will show their offspring one day.

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