An Elephant Burial

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Post by CMartucci » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 7:54 PM UTC

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Post by zvikara » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 9:41 PM UTC

Too bad whatblag.com is registered at Go Daddy, where the CEO participated in the shooting and killing of an elephant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Daddy#Animal_rights

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 9:56 PM UTC

zvikara wrote: post #2

Too bad whatblag.com is registered at Go Daddy, where the CEO participated in the shooting and killing of an elephant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Daddy#Animal_rights

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Post by burgerbrain » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 10:01 PM UTC

Fascinating stuff. Is anybody familiar with the amount of ritual usually needed by archaeologists to suggest that some sort of religious tendancies might be present in a particular group of ancient hominids? The possibility that elephants could have some sort of rudimentary religious thoughts would be a great breakthrough I think.

Burial itself is mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_religion

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Post by rdk571 » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 10:35 PM UTC

"The possibility that elephants could have some sort of rudimentary religious thoughts would be a great breakthrough"

the possibility that religion is a man made precept and burial is nothing more than the instinctive animal brain reacting to a member of it's herd no longer responding would be an even greater breakthrough.

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Post by _grrr » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 10:37 PM UTC

That mammals other than humans are capable of emotion and concious thought comes as no surprise to me. Why some humans derive pleasure from inflicting unnecessary cruelty towards other beasts I will never understand.

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Post by potatolicious » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 10:41 PM UTC

zvikara wrote: post #2

Too bad whatblag.com is registered at Go Daddy, where the CEO participated in the shooting and killing of an elephant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Daddy#Animal_rights

I suppose you personally vet every company, and all senior executives that work for them, that you conduct business with?

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Post by freejack » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 10:50 PM UTC

potatolicious wrote: post #7

zvikara wrote: post #2

Too bad whatblag.com is registered at Go Daddy, where the CEO participated in the shooting and killing of an elephant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Daddy#Animal_rights

I suppose you personally vet every company, and all senior executives that work for them, that you conduct business with?

No kidding, especially given that this barely saw any coverage in the media - CNN, Huffington Post, feh. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/04/01/godaddy.peta.prot..., http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy...

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Post by JoachimSchipper » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 10:52 PM UTC

_grrr wrote: post #6

That mammals other than humans are capable of emotion and concious thought comes as no surprise to me. Why some humans derive pleasure from inflicting unnecessary cruelty towards other beasts I will never understand.

Really? People like feeling powerful, that's reason enough.

I'm well aware that it's a rhetoric question, but do try to understand why people do evil. Declaring them insane does not help you stop it.

(Also, there is no indication that anyone derived pleasure from unnecessary cruelty in this article.)

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Post by lemma » Sat, Oct 29, 2011, 10:57 PM UTC

Not having grown up around animals, I'm constantly amazed by the intelligence behind some of the things my dog does. She has given me a much greater appreciation of nonhuman intelligence, and I've grown to one stories like this.