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But if you record the voices of herders who carry spears and often hurt elephants in confrontations at water holes, the elephants will bunch up and run away from the hidden speaker.
Not only do elephants know that there are humans, they know that there are different kinds of humans, and that some are OK and some are dangerous.
But we see other animals and we say, "Oh look, killer whales, wolves, elephants: that's not how they see it."
Elephants once ranged from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea all the way down to the Cape of Good Hope.
They wore Ho Chi Minh sandals on their feet, cut from truck tires, and carried their ration of cooked rice in elephants' intestines, a linen tube hung around the body.
In elephants or people, it would take centuries for a trait to spread widely enough to matter.
It's a common saying that elephants never forget, but these magnificent animals are more than giant walking hard drives.
The more we learn about elephants, the more it appears that their impressive memory is only one aspect of an incredible intelligence that makes them some of the most social, creative, and benevolent creatures on Earth.
Elephants know every member in their herd, able to recognize as many as 30 companions by sight or smell.
This is a great help when migrating or encountering other potentially hostile elephants.
Elephants remember not only their herd companions but other creatures who have made a strong impression on them.
In one case, two circus elephants that had briefly performed together rejoiced when crossing paths 23 years later.
Elephants have also recognized humans they've bonded with after decades apart.
It's what allows elephants who survived a drought in their youth to recognize its warning signs in adulthood, which is why clans with older matriarchs have higher survival rates.
Unfortunately, it's also what makes elephants one of the few non-human animals to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
The cerebral cortex, on the other hand, enables problem solving, which elephants display in many creative ways.
The rare combination of memory and problem solving can explain some of elephants' most clever behaviors, but it doesn't explain some of the things we're just beginning to learn about their mental lives.
Elephants communicate using everything from body signals and vocalizations, to infrasound rumbles that can be heard kilometers away.
Elephants create art by carefully choosing and combining different colors and elements.
But perhaps the most amazing thing about elephants is a capacity even more important than cleverness: their sense of empathy, altruism, and justice.
Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead, performing burial rituals and returning to visit graves.
One working elephant refused to set a log down into a hole where a dog was sleeping, while elephants encountering injured humans have sometimes stood guard and gently comforted them with their trunk.
When we consider all this evidence, along with the fact that elephants are one of the few species who can recognize themselves in a mirror, it's hard to escape the conclusion that they are conscious, intelligent, and emotional beings.
Unfortunately, humanity's treatment of elephants does not reflect this, as they continue to suffer from habitat destruction in Asia, ivory poaching in Africa, and mistreatment in captivity worldwide.
Given what we now know about elephants and what they continue to teach us about animal intelligence, it is more important than ever to ensure that what the English poet John Donne described as "nature's great masterpiece" does not vanish from the world's canvas.
That is almost as heavy as three baby elephants.
And with soldiers, they went to the forest for poaching elephants.
Because he's Pygmy, he knows how to track elephants in the forest.
And we dug up giant tortoises, and elephants and things like that.
The concrete in the world’s tallest tower, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, can withstand about 8,000 tons of pressure per square meter– the weight of over 1,200 African elephants!
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