The Elephants

Quote from: “David Braun`s article on National Geographic Magazine”

   In this article the author talks about Daphne Sheldrick talks about her experience living and working with elephants. She says that scientific studies have led to the acceptance of abilities that we didn`t think the elephants have. Elephants share the same emotions as we do. They have a strong sense of family and a strong sense of death. The most surprising is that elephants mourn the loss of loved once. Each elephant has individual personality lust like the people. They can be mischievous, playful, hold a grudge or feel slighted.

   The author also talks about their ability to communicate over distance using low range sound hidden to human ears. According the article they also have telepathic capabilities, as well as being sensitive to seismic sound through their feet. Yet for all the worldly reverence for elephants, they are today being hunted and killed at catastrophic rate for something as simple as a tooth.

Reading the story made me realize that elephants are very intelligent and sensible animals and it reminds me of a story I read recently about a baby elephant born in Chinese zoo which was abandoned by his mother right after its birth and the baby elephant spent 6 hours crying for his mom. The most impressive thing was that there was a photo posted with the article and the elephant`s face was wet of crying under the eyes!

My question to the author is: Do elephants have a feeling for people? Like who has a good personality and who has bad personality.


CAPABILITIES - power of ability, being able to do something.
SEISMIC - relating to earthquakes or other vibrations of the earth and its crust.
REVERENCE - deep respect for someone or something.