[Magdalen] Neuroscience fact of the day - elephants

[Jay Weigel]

I know I'm probably going to get some flak for this, but I've often thought
that elephants, along with whales and the great apes, are not exactly
"animals" but are some other class similar to humans and should be treated
as such. Certainly if we found them on other worlds we would treat them
with greater respect and try to learn to communicate with them, one hopes,
rather than killing them.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am on study leave and to celebrate the great freedom of a whole day to
> obsess over neuroscience in freedom, I started with this (which will not
> help me pass my exam but is great to read) '
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition
>
> Addo Elephant Park which gets a mention for the famous elephant-grief
> observations, is not far outside Port Elizabeth where we live now. It's a
> magical place
>
> Sally D
>