[null and void]

Professor Byrne explained, “It has long been a puzzle that one animal, the elephant, doesn’t seem to need domestication in order to learn to work effectively with humans. They have a natural capacity to interact with humans even though — unlike horses, dogs and camels — they have never been bred or domesticated for that role.

Never Professor? Never?

I'll buy not since the last Ice Age, but not never.

We and they could well have had quite the relationship during and prior to then.

Not much evidence of a civilization left after everything got scraped flat and covered by a 300 ft sea level rise, but perhaps traces linger in our genes...

[DManA]

Dogs inherently understand the human pointing gesture too.

[Sacajaweau]

So what the hell good is that tidbit of what they call knowledge. It’s still “ring the bell” cr**.

[Kip Russell]

Not much evidence of a civilization left after everything got scraped flat and covered by a 300 ft sea level rise, but perhaps traces linger in our genes...

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not aware of the slightest evidence of any technological civilization prior to the most recent glacial period which lasted from roughly 110,000 to 10,000 years ago.

[GraceG]

Elephants can mourn their dead too, should we elevate them above humans, NO, but we should elevate them above food animals.

Elephants should only be killed if they “become bad” and endanger human lives, other wise we should preserve them as they are of child like intelligence.

Same goes for the great apes and dolphins.

But we should still eat cows and gazelles

[WKUHilltopper]

Yeah?? You run up on a squirrel with a raised stick, they’ll know what that means too.

[palmer]

Whenever I point, my cat comes over to smell the end of my finger.

[Bratch]

Elephants Understand Human Gestures

Elephant in Missouri Crushes Zookeeper, Kills Him

Homicide?

[almcbean]

They also know what “ungawa” means. Pretty smart critters.

[fungoking]

Elephants Understand Human Gestures
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Note to self, never flip off an elephant.

[caveat emptor]

The findings help explain how humans have been able to rely on wild-caught elephants as work animals, for logging, transport, or war, for thousands of years.

Maybe, or perhaps from other strategies.

[Oatka]

Too bad we couldn’t point to the right and have the GOP elephant understand.

[Cvengr]

My elephant never plays fetch. Doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand.

He just doesn’t want to play fetch.

[Daffynition]

What if the elephant *is* the gesture?

[1010RD]

Typical modern science: GIGO.

[Gene Eric]

>> Elephants Understand Human Gestures

Or humans understand elephant gestures.