Dumbo is smarto!

Elephants have bodies built like a tank (and used as such by Hannibal), but humans have better I/O ports.

{reading, writing, listening, speaking, singing, typing, doing, going}

Without opposable thumbs, an elephant is probably quite envious of human writing & typing. Let's use the privilege wisely to encourage one another, teach and learn from each other, from Donald Tusk, and give a helping hand.

But African elephants have quite versatile opposable finger-like extensions at the tip of their trunks (Asian elephants have only one such thing)

I only stopped saying my cat is smarter than the vast majority of people I've met because she is no longer with us.

I did, and still do, believe this to be true. Would love to befriend a bird

You can befriend corvids. Teaching them symbolic language is tricky, but they can trade and socialise and solve puzzles (if you manage to explain the puzzle).