Comments on: An Elephant Never Forgets http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/business/elephant-never-forgets/1119 for environmentalists who don't take themselves too seriously Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:09:26 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: WolfGirl http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/business/elephant-never-forgets/1119/comment-page-1#comment-38492 WolfGirl Thu, 01 May 2008 00:21:23 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/business/elephant-never-forgets/1119#comment-38492 The Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, and the South African National Parks have been in ongoing discussion for quite a long time about how best to "deal". They claim they are too much of a pain to the people living close to them because they (prepared to be shocked) eat their crops, drink their water and "can" be dangerous. The Minister said they were going to try other things such as a contraceptives YET culling opens up on May 1st. Me thinks there is a bit of lie going on here! The Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, and the South African National Parks have been in ongoing discussion for quite a long time about how best to “deal”. They claim they are too much of a pain to the people living close to them because they (prepared to be shocked) eat their crops, drink their water and “can” be dangerous. The Minister said they were going to try other things such as a contraceptives YET culling opens up on May 1st. Me thinks there is a bit of lie going on here!

]]> By: onleyone http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/business/elephant-never-forgets/1119/comment-page-1#comment-38474 onleyone Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:19:44 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/business/elephant-never-forgets/1119#comment-38474 "elephants have cognitive capacity"? along with pretty much all vertebrates, not to mention other animals species besides. wouldn't any organism with a brain or largish ganglia have "cognitive capacity" simply by definition? anyway, i don't see how harvesting captive elephants for food would cause them any less suffering than simply shooting them from the air (i am not an advocate of either option, btw). “elephants have cognitive capacity”? along with pretty much all vertebrates, not to mention other animals species besides. wouldn’t any organism with a brain or largish ganglia have “cognitive capacity” simply by definition?

anyway, i don’t see how harvesting captive elephants for food would cause them any less suffering than simply shooting them from the air (i am not an advocate of either option, btw).

]]> By: Beth http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/business/elephant-never-forgets/1119/comment-page-1#comment-38339 Beth Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:23:04 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/business/elephant-never-forgets/1119#comment-38339 This is horrific. Makes the humans seem a bit like the Nazi's, doesn't it? At this point, I have to wonder if elephants aren't, in fact, the superior species. The one bright spot here is that the cognitive abilities of these magnificent creatures may finally come to light. This is horrific. Makes the humans seem a bit like the Nazi’s, doesn’t it? At this point, I have to wonder if elephants aren’t, in fact, the superior species. The one bright spot here is that the cognitive abilities of these magnificent creatures may finally come to light.

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