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NitroX
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Elephant behaviour
#1420 - 03/02/03 02:30 AM

Elephants have been said to have emotions close to human emotions and show behaviour different from other animals and mammals.

What do you think? Have you experienced or seen behaviour of this sort in elephants, or heard of it from another person?

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Re: Elephant behaviour [Re: NitroX]
#1421 - 03/02/03 02:57 AM

Mother and daughters are said to have tight relations for more than 50 years.

Source - Nature Program on television

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NitroX
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Re: Elephant behaviour - dead cow & calf & herd [Re: cchunter]
#1425 - 03/02/03 02:46 PM

This is a pic I took in Ambroselli in 1988 and shows a recently deceased cow elephant and the elephant "family".

This is a another shot.

A closer up of the dead cow and its calf.

The rest of the herd / family group had surrounded the dead elephant and were trying to push it back up onto its feet.

We did not stay long in the vicinty and the elephant had probably died as a result of a wound/poisoning from poachers.

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Re: Elephant behaviour [Re: NitroX]
#1430 - 04/02/03 01:01 AM

It is a very difficult topic to talk about. The reason why I say this is that you cannot give any animal human feelings thay are different they have their own ways and their own feelings.

I'm sure that most people will think that they have human emotions but then let me tell you this if there was no humans on earth what would you call their feelings then ?
Elephant feelings correct !

The point I'm trying to make is that we must watch out when investigating any animal and giving them a human property. They have their own even though we think they are human properties.

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Re: Elephant behaviour [Re: SafariHunt]
#1464 - 05/02/03 06:04 AM

Well put, Frederik.

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Will
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Re: Elephant behaviour [Re: AspenHill]
#1491 - 06/02/03 11:19 PM

It would appear that the mother-offspring relationship for elephants is longer-lasting than other big game. This is witnessed by the relatively large cow-calf herds that are seemingly perpetuated on a continual basis, from generation to generation. This of course is seen in herds of buffalo and prides of lions, but I think this is more advanced for elephants, having a strong communal attitude which gives rise to the apparent "caring" for each other.

In hunting, I think this is why the possibility of being charged by members of an elephant cow herd are much, much greater than when hunting other dangerous game, in my experience anyway.

Will

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Re: Elephant behaviour [Re: Will]
#1627 - 13/02/03 05:22 PM

The best book I've found on the subject is When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson & Susan McCarthy. It's real interesting.

It certainly proves what I've believed for many years that Elephants fall into a catagory of their own. They think and feel far more than any other animal after Man.

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Re: Elephant behaviour [Re: shakari]
#1636 - 13/02/03 11:52 PM

I agree 100% with safarihunt,you can't give an animal a human charataristic but I also understand that elephants are highly intelligent animals with human like behaviour and emotions but there is nothing supernatural to them.They are just a little more intelligent than Kudu or impala does'nt matter really.

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