Elephants Are Doing Something Deeply Human
When scientist Katy Payne, of the Elephant Listening Project at Cornell University, discovered these elephant sound waves it was a startling breakthrough, one which would change our entire concept of elephant behaviour. There is a concrete link between advanced congenital intelligence and long-distance communication.
Graham Spence • The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
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Adam named all the mammals and the birds—so forging a connection with them that went to the root of what both they and he were. His very first words were the names. We are shaped by the things we say and the labels we give. So Adam was shaped by his interactions with the animals. That interaction, and that shaping, are simple historical facts. We’v
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But even if those wavelengths only vibrate for hundreds of square miles, which is now generally accepted in the scientific community, it still means elephants are potentially in contact with each other across the African continent. One herd speaks with a neighbouring herd, which in turn connects with another until you have conduits covering their e
... See moreGraham Spence • The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
As I had learned, elephants transmit infrasound vibrations through unique stomach rumblings that can
Graham Spence • The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild
In other words, the elephant begins making something like moral judgments during infancy, long before language and reasoning arrive.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Many animals and human species could previously say, ‘Careful! A lion!’ Thanks to the Cognitive Revolution, Homo sapiens acquired the ability to say, ‘The lion is the guardian spirit of our tribe.’ This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language.