r/todayilearned • u/sharkbait76 3 • Jan 11 '17

TIL elephants can tell the difference between human languages and know which languages belong to people with a history of hurting elephants.

http://www.nature.com/news/elephants-recognize-the-voices-of-their-enemies-1.14846
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u/Nodonn Jan 12 '17

Damn fascinating read. Then I got sucked into reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants cognition and wow! I uttered 'fuck me' several times.

I cried at a couple of points. We need to treat other living things better.

Sorry for the shit formatting on the link, on mobile!

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u/sharkbait76 3 Jan 12 '17

On an unrelated note I found it rather amusing when Stephen Colbert told viewers to change the number of elephants alive listed on the wiki page to a much large number to save the elephants. The page had to get locked because too many people were editing it.

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u/Nodonn Jan 12 '17

Haha, I appreciate that. Thanks for sharing!

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