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laogaiguk
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 Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject: The elephants are going mad |
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The elephants are going mad
Very, very interesting.
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Wangja
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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laogaiguk
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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pastis
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| In fact, these attacks have become so commonplace that a new statistical category, known as human-elephant conflict, or HEC, was created by researchers in the mid-1990s to monitor the problem |
I hope the elephants win. |
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matthews_world
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Why aren't their many sports franchises named The Elephants? After all, they're pretty tough. |
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Wangja
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| When I was in Africa I was seriously informed that elephants feared only white men. |
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gang ah jee
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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"Since the early 1990s, for example, young male elephants in Pilanesberg National Park and the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa have been raping and killing rhinoceroses"
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laogaiguk
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
"Since the early 1990s, for example, young male elephants in Pilanesberg National Park and the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa have been raping and killing rhinoceroses"
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I know. I thought the same thing. |
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Paji eh Wong
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| That was interesting. |
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twg
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I hope the elephants win. |
Ditto |
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peemil
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| I smell Drop Bears. |
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captain kirk
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:34 am Post subject: |
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| Amazing article. |
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Novernae
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That's a wonderful article.
Elephants are fascinating. They are incredibly intelligent, and have wonderful memory capability which allow them to take revenge in some pretty extreme ways. There's the story (I saw it referred to on a nature show) of an elephant cub who was killed by lions. The herd saw this and basically ploted a revenge. They waited until the lions went hunting and charged in to trample all of the lion cubs to death. The key here is that they waited and planned. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Novernae wrote: |
That's a wonderful article.
Elephants are fascinating. They are incredibly intelligent, and have wonderful memory capability which allow them to take revenge in some pretty extreme ways. There's the story (I saw it referred to on a nature show) of an elephant cub who was killed by lions. The herd saw this and basically ploted a revenge. They waited until the lions went hunting and charged in to trample all of the lion cubs to death. The key here is that they waited and planned. |
Holy smokes.
That was an amazing article. Elephants are fascinating in and of themselves, but it's also compelling to contemplate the possible parallels between our society and theirs. How can we apply what we know about humans to elephants, and vice versa? Sure this comparison can go way out of bounds, but perhaps we have more in common than is apparent at first glance. |
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Novernae
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| kermo wrote: |
| Novernae wrote: |
That's a wonderful article.
Elephants are fascinating. They are incredibly intelligent, and have wonderful memory capability which allow them to take revenge in some pretty extreme ways. There's the story (I saw it referred to on a nature show) of an elephant cub who was killed by lions. The herd saw this and basically ploted a revenge. They waited until the lions went hunting and charged in to trample all of the lion cubs to death. The key here is that they waited and planned. |
Holy smokes.
That was an amazing article. Elephants are fascinating in and of themselves, but it's also compelling to contemplate the possible parallels between our society and theirs. How can we apply what we know about humans to elephants, and vice versa? Sure this comparison can go way out of bounds, but perhaps we have more in common than is apparent at first glance. |
I find it interesting how few parallels are made between supposedly deviant behaviour in the animal world and human society. Homosexuality is starting to get more support (thankfully) from the natural world as it loses its taboo, but you rarely hear of the existence of 'racism' in the wild (put a black chicken in with a bunch of white ones and it will get pecked to death, and vice versa). It's as if no one wants to admit that it is natural, but wouldn't understanding the root causes of bad help us to evaluate alleviate the problems? |
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