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It doesn’t quite seem like it, but this elephant can mimic sounds including five words. Why or how? He learned possibly because he was the only elephant for five years at the zoo, so his contacts were all human. (Belfasttelegraph – Korean Elephant) [youtube]xJjsiY3oDec[/youtube] (youtubelink)
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The scientists got enough bone marrow from a Mammoth part found preserved in permafrost. They intend to insert the cell into an elephant egg and see what happens from there. It sounds like great science, but imagine the problems. A) You have just created a mammoth. This beast might kill everything in it’s path one day. This can’t lead to anything good. B) Imagine the elephant who’s giving birth to a mammoth. Elephants are already smart with great memories. The mother elephant will be pissed off. It’s like a human giving birth to an ape thanks to modern science. Not cool and it sounds like it can’t lead to much good in the end except for us to see a pseudo real mammoth. (Google – mammoth)
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Thai Elephant gets prosthetic leg. Not much to say about this, right? But it shows Thailand’s love for their elephants. (Huffington Post – Elephant Prosthetic Leg)
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