Oh this is just wonderful. Read this and listen to Paul playing Claire de Lune to an 80 year old elephant and the world feels better #Piano#Elephants#Music
"Elephants returning to a matriarchal group are greeted with ceremonial embraces, entwinings of trunks and colossal snorts of pleasure. Coming across the bones of their dead, they will salute them, lightly touching the skulls and tusks with their trunks. They have been known to bury dead family members, covering them in earth and brightly coloured leaves, working together, surrounding the corpse with fruit and flowers."
from 'The Golden Mole', by Katherine Rundell #Books#Nature#Elephants
Some good news coming out of Canada for #elephants and great apes! The Canadian government is introducing a bill to phase them out of captivity!
This means zoos and private owners would be banned from acquiring new ones or breeding existing ones.
Why is this a big deal? Elephants and great apes (which includes #chimpanzees, #gorillas, #orangutans, and #bonobos) are highly intelligent and social beings with complex natural habitats. Studies have shown that these animals suffer both physically and mentally in captivity, and often develop serious behavioural and health problems due to the stress of confinement.
There are around 30 great apes held in captivity in Canada and over 20 captive elephants. Many of these animals were captured from their homes in the wild before being caged for human entertainment.
Vegan Australia welcomes this news from Canada, and we hope this will inspire the Australian government, and Australian zoos, to embrace similar measures and end the exploitation of all animals. Currently Australia is keeping 27 elephants, and approximately 60 great apes in captivity.
Three blind men touch an elephant in three different places, such as a leg, trunk, or tusk. Each therefore reaches a very different conclusion (e.g., it's a tree) as to what the phenomenon is.
Interpretation: We cannot very well see things or people as a whole. Even the perspectives in #academia come from different disciplines. Different people looking at a multifaceted individual can each draw a very different image of the person.
Three animals cross a river, and each reaches the other shore. The rabbit swims along the surface, the horse occasionally hits bottom, but the elephant touches bottom all the way.
Interpretation: This is a parable of enlightenment or individual differences in wisdom. People can only understand things to their own depth. They might therefore avoid a person who is too heavy like the elephant. Just sayin"!
Wifey is playing Super Mario Wonder now, since last night, just kinda chilling and playing semi-slow. She's in world 2 and the game looks AWESOME. Definitely lots of co-op potential too, you can even play as different colored Yoshis or Nabbit (when you play as those, you don't get hurt unless you fall off a cliff, but you can't use powerups).
REALLY great looking game. Her theory is that it was originally a Kirby game and they skinned it Mario. It's very Kirby-like in some aspects. Which is never a bad thing!
Ended up with TwinA (6.75) in bed with us last night because she was thinking back on a #museum trip where she read that some scientists were trying to bring back the #mammoth
“I’m okay with #elephants, but I think woolly mammoths would be more aggressive”
Slept great, she’s a great sleeper with peaceful breathing.
Did you know that according to Pliny, rhinos are the main enemy of #elephants?
King Manuel I of #Portugal wanted to test the theory. In 1514, he pitted a #rhino gifted to him by the governor of Portuguese #India (who had in turn been gifted it by Sultan Muzafar II of Gujarat), against an Indian elephant named Hanno.
Hanno, upon seeing the rhino, promptly fled.
First Hanno & later the rhino were sent to #Pope Leo X, but the ship carrying the latter sank before it reached Rome.
African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) are the world's largest living land-based animals, reaching a height between 10 and 13 feet (roughly 3 to 4 meters) and weighing between 4 to 7 tons. One in particular, Doma, is the most dominant male in his group. Yet he seems to have developed this superiority as much through...
In November 2023, one of the tragic casualties of severe heat exacerbated by the El Niño phenomenon was an elephant in Zimbabwe's largest animal reserve. Hwange National Park, boasting over 45,000 elephants, witnessed the deaths of over 100 of these majestic creatures due to dehydration.
A herd of 42 wild #AsianElephants were spotted in #MenglaCounty of southwest #China's #Yunnan Province recently, according to footage captured by the local monitoring team.
According to the team, the herds including 13 baby #elephants mainly traveled between #Mengban Town & neighboring #YaoquYaozu Township.
India: Steep drop in Kerala's wild elephant and tiger populations (www.eastcoastdaily.in)
Elephant and tiger populations in Kerala's forests have undergone a significant decline, as reported by the Forest Department's latest enumeration....
Researchers decode how elephants form "sentences," lending insight to their complex communication (www.salon.com)
African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) are the world's largest living land-based animals, reaching a height between 10 and 13 feet (roughly 3 to 4 meters) and weighing between 4 to 7 tons. One in particular, Doma, is the most dominant male in his group. Yet he seems to have developed this superiority as much through...