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Talking Elephant?

Talking elephants are not just fictional characters in Dumbo. At the Oakland Zoo, a biologist is discovering that elephants do communicate with each other. What makes this discovery more surprisi...  
 
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rydag11 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Stop insulting elephants
kakabukkake0 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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agreed. they have feelings too
Representative45 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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i think she's just playing those researchers to give her treats
philinmotion (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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lol
wclark316 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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she is probably saying let me out of this fucking cage you fucking fags
FedUpVideo (4 months ago) Show Hide
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My Elephant speaks English very well. He's always like " Hey Loell buddy, what's good? " and I'm like " Yo dawg it's all good! " Then we go play 4 square. 'cept his square is much bigger than mine.
butida (4 months ago) Show Hide
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The can probably tell the direction -- even though the wavelength is longer than sounds we hear their feet are so much further apart than our ears chances are they know the direction.
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Exactly what I was thinking, of course she is going to give the "correct response" cos she will get the food. Any animal can learn to do one simple thing if they know they will get food for it. This is the worst test ever!
butida (4 months ago) Show Hide
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But if she could not detect the seismic waves she would not know the correct response.
philinmotion (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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but the thing is they can't if they don't catch up with the signal, which is what is being tested here.

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