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Re:African elephants are migrating to safety, telling each o... by kraig on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:01PM (#16485082)
Elephants are known to knock down trees and vegetation to make it easier to get to the things they want. If you have ever been on a safari you will see how easy it is to spot if there are elephants near by, they destroy just about everything in their path. AFAIK the only animal that regularly does this.

I don't know if modifying the environment for your purposes is consideration for being a person, but as humans we are often poor at understanding intelligence, comprehension, and empathy when something doesn't speak our native tongue.

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Re:African elephants are migrating to safety, telling each o... by rosser on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:33PM (#16485985)
> AFAIK the only animal that regularly does this.

Humans?

Deforestation, strip-mining, dumping waste, drilling, war...

Just because we wrap all that up in an "economy" or "politics" doesn't make it non-destructive.

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Re:African elephants are migrating to safety, telling each o... by always_good on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:08PM (#16486321)
Their whole point in mentioning that is that humans already do it. Look at their second paragraph. Not sure how you thought someone else didn't know that.
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