Comments on: Elephant self-awareness

By: Bed Bugs Extermination

Bed Bugs Extermination — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:53:20 +0000

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By: Judith

Judith — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:54:06 +0000

The book “When Elephants Weep” by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson addresses this question of animal awareness and emotions.

There have been other studies published more recently that should cause us all to question our ethics with regard to animal treatment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:20:50 +0000

I remember a really touching scene from an Animal Planet show a couple of years ago. An animal sanctuary was getting a new elephant they’d rescued from a terrible life. There were already several elephants there in the compound.

As the new one was brought close to the gate, another elephant began calling, and the new one called back. Keepers were at first concerned that some kind of rivalry was there, but when the new one was let inside, the two hurried together, and began kind of “whimpering” and rubbing their trunks together, etc. It was obviously a love fest. Sanctuary staff had never seen this before, so suddenly, but did research and learned that these two elephants had been close friends in another situation some *twenty* years before, then had been separated and each had been treated badly. They remembered each other at first sight, and became inseparable again.

Linda in Concord

By: Pat in Antioch

Pat in Antioch — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:24:15 +0000

You know Gary…..even as a child (MANY years ago) I felt sorry for the animals in zoos….Tillie the elephant in our Scranton(PA) one especially. I was fascinated by the story you mentioned when I read it… gives a whole new perspective to animals in general…..we have NO idea what they really feel &/or see….they deserve SO much better than what we give them. When WILL we learn??

Pat in Antioch

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:33:25 +0000

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