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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    Quote Originally Posted by miller-time
    if you read parts 2, 3 and 5 of this wiki you can see that this story is not far fetched.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_intelligence
    The elephant altruism bit completely blew me away:


    The matriarch charged at him and knocked him over with her trunk, breaking one of his legs. In the evening, when he did not return, a search party was sent in a truck to find him. When the party discovered him, he was being guarded by an elephant. The animal charged the truck, so they shot over her and scared her away. The herdsman later told them that when he could not stand up, the elephant used her trunk to lift him under the shade of a tree. She guarded him for the day and would gently touch him with her trunk.[21]
    Would most humans do that? just boggles the mind.

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    Quote Originally Posted by The Macho Man
    Elephants killed him, wanted his whore wife to know she's next.


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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    Quote Originally Posted by DurantFor40
    I don't buy it.

    Those elephants don't know jack shit about anything.

    Stupid thread.


    You need to read brah. Elephants are crazy intelligent.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    Animals are a lot smarter than most human beings. I always lol when some people think that animals are really dumb.

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    Quote Originally Posted by franchise#3
    Animals are a lot smarter than most human beings. I always lol when some people think that animals are really dumb.
    You think animals are smarter than human beings?

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    after this thread elephants are up on my favorite animals list.

    humans are down

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    i wonder if elephants taste bomb

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    don't rule out the existance of a spirit here...there are numerous stories of humans knowing when a loved one dies dispite being miles or even continents apart and never recieving any news.

    just sayin

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    Quote Originally Posted by The Macho Man
    Knowing like they all of a sudden stop "John's dead"

    or

    They have a bad feeling, think about a loved ones death and later find out they died and are like "I knew something happened"
    both of those type events have happened numerous times...

    there are also hundereds of instances of children who know everything about a dead human from the past as though they lived out that person's life first...infact ISH's own vapid was born with knowedge of ancient Roman currency without being told anything...it's more common than people know.

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    Great story.

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    Quote Originally Posted by The Macho Man
    I don't know, I feel if it were common and legitimate it would be a big deal.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_T5vNgusEw


    people brush it off for whatever reason...

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    Absolutely beautiful creatures.

    Sharp memories.

    Versatile trunks that can hold a pencil or crush a tree.

    And endearing whether depicted as Dumbo or Horton Hears a Who.

    God bless elephants!

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    Quote Originally Posted by macmac
    You think animals are smarter than human beings?
    You weren't asking me but I have two cents on it:

    "smarter" is tricky and the short answer is no. Other animals (we're animals too remember) can't build spaceships or make movies. But there's animals ahead of us in all the five senses (we don't see, hear, smell, etc the best on the planet)- I think most modern science asserts "the five senses" is a rudimentary way of viewing our senses anyway (basically we have more than 5 and the standard "sight, taste, touch, hearing, smell" categories are a simplistic and narrow learning mnemonic) but it stands to reason that these animals could have senses that we can't fully understand. Unfair to assume that because we're atop the food chain (and running this rock son!) that we're the only sentient beings.

    You hear about these dogs and cats (who i think are probably a step below the "intelligence" level of elephants, dolphins, etc) at cancer clinics who know when a patient is about to pass. You hear about these lizards who gather for eclipses. It's wild (no pun intended), there's definitely some deeper understanding in the animal kingdom.

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    Quote Originally Posted by -p.tiddy-
    don't rule out the existance of a spirit here...there are numerous stories of humans knowing when a loved one dies dispite being miles or even continents apart and never recieving any news.

    just sayin
    Read the wiki.. Elephants have large hippocampus's which control emotions and memory and huge brains in general that are similar in size and structure to humans. Much more convincing than saying its spirits lol.

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    Default Re: The Elephant Whisperer Is Dead. The Elephants F*cking Knew.

    Quote Originally Posted by tpols
    Read the wiki.. Elephants have large hippocampus's which control emotions and memory and huge brains in general that are similar in size and structure to humans. Much more convincing than saying its spirits lol.
    um...how exactly does that explain them knowing when someone far away dies?

    I like miller's "they have an amazing sense of smell" much more than that...and I don't rule out anything like that either, I'm just saying no one should rule out spiritual factors either, this isn't the only time something like that has happened.

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