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:: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 :: I just heard something on NPR about a woman who runs an "elephant orphanage." I've seen and read about how highly intelligent they are, especially socially and emotionally, and what a compelling sense of community they have. I've seen footage of several of them working together (each of them taking on different roles) to free a young elephant from being stuck in a muddy ravine. They also exhibit complex mourning behaviours when one of their community dies. Anyway, the show's guest mentioned the recent tsunami in Japan, and how the elephants knew the moment the earthquake happened, and began heading to high ground, some of them grabbing human beings as they went and putting them on their backs. Wow.
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