The study that I found was focused on elephant fossils that were discovered in Africa in the mid 1980’s. According to the source that I found, the motivation that led to the discovery and experimentation of elephant fossils was the drive that scientists and geologists had to determine the nature of ancient environments in the region of Zimbabwe. Throughout the study, scientists were finding causes of death of ancient elephants. Some of the questions that geologists asked when examining the elephant fossils were, “What lead to the death of the elephants?” “Was the environment not stable for elephants?” “Was there a drought that led the species to dehydration?” “Was human interaction the cause of deaths?”
There were seven causes of elephant