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08-22-2008, 10:09 PM
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| Senior Member      Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: L.A. (Lower Alabama)
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My Mood:  | Elephants Never Forget Women and elephants never forget an injury. Or so it goes according to H.H. Munro's brief narrative, "Reginald on Besetting Sins." We'll set aside the questionable implications of the first half of that assertion for now. But regarding the elephants, the British author was onto something. Nearly a century later, extensive observations have confirmed that elephants indeed remember injuries and hold grudges against their abusers. For example, one study of African elephants found that the animals react negatively to the sight and scent of clothing worn by members of a nearby Maasai tribe of people [source: BBC News]. Why the sour grapes? Maasai men spear elephants as a customary display of their masculinity. Anecdotal evidence also suggests that elephants remember trainers or keepers who mistreated them even after years of separation [source: National Geographic]. Similarly, scientists have linked elephant raids on villages in Uganda to a form of post-traumatic stress disorder [source: Shaikh]. The experts believe that the elephants lashed out because the growing human population was taking over elephant territory, forcibly separating some elephants from their close-knit family units [source: Shaikh]. HowStuffWorks "Do elephants never forget?" |
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08-22-2008, 10:16 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007
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My Mood:  | We took the dogs to the Vet a few months ago .. After the first one got a shot the second one nipped the Vet when she tried to do the same to him. The Vet got all down on me over his lack of socialization. She had just stabbed his sister with a needle and she yelped in pain. He was watching .. How stupid do people think animals are? |
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08-23-2008, 01:14 AM
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| the ne'er do-well.  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Dallas.
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__________________ Some day we will look back on all this, laugh nervously and quickly change the subject. -- Tears stream down your face When you lose something you cannot replace Tears stream down your face And I.. Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you. | |
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