The decay of elephant society. Very sad.
When an elephant dies, its family members engage in intense mourning and burial rituals, conducting weeklong vigils over the body, carefully covering it with earth and brush, revisiting the bones for years afterward, caressing the bones with their trunks, often taking turns rubbing their trunks along the teeth of a skull’s lower jaw, the way living elephants do in greeting.
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The elephants of decimated herds, especially orphans who’ve watched the death of their parents and elders from poaching and culling, exhibit behavior typically associated with post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related disorders in humans: abnormal startle response, unpredictable asocial behavior, inattentive mothering and hyperaggression. Studies of the various assaults on the rhinos in South Africa, meanwhile, have determined that the perpetrators were in all cases adolescent males that had witnessed their families being shot down in cullings.
Poor elephants.
Hi Laura! Please do come back more.
I can't sleep. feh
Probably the time change, Lee.
Venture Brothers: OK, what did she say? Was it
"I used to be a man"?
Also, how many
fantasy movies from the 80s did they reference?
Yep.
I need to be up in 2 hours to wave goodbye, so maybe I should just stay up and then get to sleep.
eyes pile of books I have with me.
OK, what did she say? Was it
I think that would be too obvious. Could be something like,
I'm Catholic.
OK, what did she say? Was it
I assumed it was
I'm pregnant.
I woke up at the pre-crack ass of dawn to get to the airport and now I have cleared all security and have 2 hours to WAIT! GRRR.
Stupids.
ION, today is the day my papers get presented at the courts for the adoption. My representative with power of attny is the only one who has to be there, but this will make things legal. MEEP!
YAY msbelle! This is so awesome!
So I pop in just in time for me to say goodnight! Do not know why I am still awake. The ball game is not exactly keeping me on the edge of my seat.
LAURA!!! It's not the same here without you. Every Buffista brings his or her own flavor, but you're one of the ones whose absense makes the whole thing taste off.
It was not the best night for sleeping, for me, either. I am blaming the Pepsi I had at supper, and feeling pretty pathetic that I can't drink one glass of Pepsi at supper.
Looks like somebody didn't enter the numbers in time in Hawaii.
Oh, you're too clever.
The elephants with PTSD are very sad making.
msbelle, how very exciting! Yay for legality. Boo for long ass waits in the airport.
I slept ok last night since I opted to not watch the rest of Cassanova and recorded it for later.
