Question

You believe that elephants have intelligence and that this intelligence increases as elephants get older. You test your hypothesis by observing the behaviors of the same group of elephants at birth and at five-year intervals. What type of study is this

Answer 1

Longitudinal study

Step-by-step explanation:

A longitudinal study (or longitudinal survey, or panel analysis) is a research design requiring repeated measurements of the same variables (e.g., humans) across short or long periods of time (e.g. using longitudinal data).

Studying the elephants across long periods of time to determine their intelligence.

It is often a form of observational study, although it could also be described as randomized longitudinal experiments.