[Magdalen] Neuroscience fact of the day - elephants

[Marion Thompson]

No flak from me.  We are horribly cocky and arrogant in our attitudes of 
superiority over other members of God's creation family.

Marion, a pilgrim



On 9/24/2015 9:17 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> 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
>>
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