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you claim they are nearly as smart as we are and you are telling ME to become educated. how much time have you actually spent in the AFrican Bush around elephants?
I have read several books about them. You are talking about them like they are just some animal. They are special. Elephants, dolphins, chimps, bonobos, orangutans and us humans are to the best of our knowledge the only self aware animals on earth, and of those, only elephants and us know they will die some day. When I would go out squirrel or deer hunting as a kid, I could be pretty damn confident that the animals we shot did not mourn their dead, experience all the same emotions we do, empathize with others, or were self aware.