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DodgerFanLA@dodgerfanla.bsky.social |
TBH I think they show more morality and "humanity" than many great apes whose behavior is often profoundly ego centric and "amoral" (relative to our understanding). Elephants seem far less self centered and caring.
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Angry Allosaurus
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Elephants can be profoundly violent at times. Most of the worst cases seem to be trauma-related (cow killers, ones that kill their handlers) but the males routinely fight each other for mating rights and they have the occasional tendency to kick newborn calves. Like slapping an infant.
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Matt Baldwin
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Chimpanzees share a great many negative character traits with human beings, and they have a whole lot more brute strength to back it up.
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Marley Jay, a Werewolf of Wall Street
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I’m not disagreeing, but elephants also have very intense emotions. They have very tight bonds, and sometimes their friendships end abruptly. You can see the trauma some of them carry, too.
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Alison Smaalders
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Yep, I think the closest to us in terms of behavior of the great apes are bonobos. They, like us, have sex just for fun and to engage in social bonding. It's common enough that zoos often don't display them because it's hard to explain their extracurricular activities to kids.
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