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An animal reserve had rescued a number of baby male elephants from poachers who had poached their parents. The baby males were juveniles. They were bullying the other animals on the reservation, and even killing them. Those who ran the reservation finally made the agonizing decision to have the juvenile elephants killed due to their relentless aggressive behavior.
However, just as they were about to put the elephants down, one of the experts on elephant behavior decided to try one more strategy for taming the juveniles. He brought grown male elephants to the reservation and placed them with the young elephants in the hopes that the elder males would discipline the juvenile boys, and teach them proper behavior, etiquette, etc. It worked.
Once the males were put with the juveniles, the adult males immediately began to discipline the younger males. The adults bumped the juvenile elephants when they misbehaved, intimidated them if they were rude to other animals, yelled at the juveniles to make them follow and comply with the older males' behaviors, and used a number of other disciplinary measures to teach the juvenile elephants to act properly. It took only a couple of weeks before the juveniles stopped misbehaving.
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