we’re all killers.
we’ve all killed parts of ourselves
to survive.
we’ve all got blood on our hands.
something somewhere had to die
so we could stay alive.
(Source: distinguishedbaloney)
this is your daily reminder to take a chonce
What the fuck is a chonce
A study by researchers from the University St Andrews has found that elephants are the only wild animals that can understand human pointing without being trained.
In the study, published in Current Biology, the researchers show that a group of 11 captive Zimbabwean elephants, which were used to following vocal instructions but weren’t trained to respond to pointing, could find hidden food by interpreting where humans were pointing.
According to the study: “elephants successfully interpreted pointing when the experimenter’s proximity to the hiding place was varied and when the ostensive pointing gesture was visually subtle, suggesting that they understood the experimenter’s communicative intent.”
The results prove that the ability to understand pointing is not a uniquely human trait. (Source)
Elephants are a lot like us.. They are the only other species that we have found that basically holds a funeral for their departed. And mourns afterwards.
Elephants are my faveorite