[Magdalen] Neuroscience fact of the day - elephants

[Marion Thompson]

It is beyond sad.  It is an obscene criminal act against all creation.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 9/24/2015 10:59 AM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> 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
>>>
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