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Re: [xmca] more tool use among the beasts



So the elephants were watching those bastards burn down the village and did
nothing to stop them? Shady moral characters are also common across species?
mike

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:

> Wild elephants recently rampaged through parts of Bangladesh, and according
> to the head of the country's Wildlife Trust, those super-intelligent
> animals
> "are quick to learn human strategies."  For example, he pointed to reports
> that elephants (protecting their migration corridors) routine swipe torches
> from hunters and hurl them not randomly but directly at the hunters' homes.
>
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