[Magdalen] Neuroscience fact of the day - elephants

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Sadly read yesterday that one of the great/old Elephants in an African 
country was killed by having his 36" long tusks cut off.  So very sad.
Lynn

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 8:17 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Neuroscience fact of the day - elephants

> 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
>>