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Title: Elephants walk for 12 hours to show their respect for a human who just have died
Post by: bear on August 29, 2012, 07:32:13 AM

Amazing story, I am an atheist and do not think it involves god or religion.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2012/03/rescued-wild-elephant-herds-inexplicably-gather-to-mourn-lawrence-anthony-south-africas-elephant-whisperer.php

Title: Re: Elephants walk for 12 hours to show their respect for a human who just have died
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on August 29, 2012, 10:40:12 AM

It goes to show humanity is not just for humans. Even if it were all coincidence, its still a wonderful story.

Title: Re: Elephants walk for 12 hours to show their respect for a human who just have died
Post by: bear on August 29, 2012, 10:57:21 AM

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on August 29, 2012, 10:40:12 AM
It goes to show humanity is not just for humans. Even if it were all coincidence, its still a wonderful story.

I do not think it was a coincidence as elephants are known to mourn their dead.

Title: Re: Elephants walk for 12 hours to show their respect for a human who just have died
Post by: Rivkid on August 29, 2012, 11:46:40 AM

Loads of stories like this with elephants. There's a video i saw online once of an elephant in a zoo withits foot stuck through a tyre hanging from a rope. She's in distress and 2/3 others all group together and managed to wriggle her foot free. Its fascintating and so human in many ways.

Title: Re: Elephants walk for 12 hours to show their respect for a human who just have died
Post by: knighty on August 29, 2012, 20:30:16 PM

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDUQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchannel.nationalgeographic.com%2Fchannel%2Fvideos%2Felephant-trap%2F&ei=ZGw-UN33DLCN0wX2zoHIDQ&usg=AFQjCNH5Jp1tGY5Kv9vTe3t1BH2EbKo43g&cad=rja (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDUQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchannel.nationalgeographic.com%2Fchannel%2Fvideos%2Felephant-trap%2F&ei=ZGw-UN33DLCN0wX2zoHIDQ&usg=AFQjCNH5Jp1tGY5Kv9vTe3t1BH2EbKo43g&cad=rja)

:-)

Title: Re: Elephants walk for 12 hours to show their respect for a human who just have died
Post by: Mongoose on August 30, 2012, 19:36:17 PM

I find it incredibly arrogant of us as humans to believe that we are the only species capable of any form of emotion. We are after all just an animal like any other, our evolutionary path has lead us to higher levels of intelligence than any other species on earth certainly, but that doesn't mean all other species are totally without the characteristics we think of as "human".

I'm always fascinated by stories like this one, and similarly although a different emotion the one about the ape brothers who were reunited a few weeks ago after years apart. They go to show that animals are not so different from us as we might otherwise believe.

Title: Re: Elephants walk for 12 hours to show their respect for a human who just have died
Post by: XEntity on August 30, 2012, 22:11:10 PM

It's like Christian the lion, when he was reunited with his former owner, check it out on YouTube if you haven't seen it! It's quite heartwarming.

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