Sad news: baby elephant has died.

[Buccaneer]

I just love nowadays how " tree-huggers " try to put a human element to the animal kingdom as a whole ... elephants dont do anything except by instinct or in this case of raising their young they " ape " the older females ... this is not a thinking rational being.

You can teach a rat to go through a maze to get some cheese ( and that is a learned behaviour ) but he is never going to compose music like Chopin.

I was conversing with a " tree-hugger " and she actually had animals higher on the scale than humans in terms of importance ... now I know most of you in this thread wont go so far but to think of a animal in human terms as far as evolutionary evolving is ludicrous dont you think ?