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Madusa said:
Unless they're beached and spot some sunbather's laptop. But I guess, it's not a pressing concern for a beached whale somewhat.
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They probably just fancy a spot of sunbathing and along comes some Dolly Do-Right and her friends to try and shove them back in the sea. If only they could talk eh. I wonder what they'd say?
 
Personally, I'm still wondering how you would bake an elephant in pregnancy. And why you would want to.
 
This thread should be about elephants anyway, or bottlenose dolphins or something. Not blue whales, whose one virtue is that they're very, very big. Why congratulate an animal for its God-given physical characteristics? It doesn't make sense.

Elephants: Big AND Clever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_intelligence

Elephants are thought to be highly altruistic animals that will even aid other species, including humans, in distress. In India, an elephant was helping locals lift logs by following a truck and placing the logs in pre-dug holes upon instruction from the mahout (elephant trainer). At a certain hole, the elephant refused to lower the log. The mahout came to investigate the hold up and noticed a dog sleeping in the hole. The elephant only lowered the log when the dog was gone[19].
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Elephants are the only other species other than humans and neanderthals[21] known to have a ritual around death. They show a keen interest in the bones of their own kind (even unrelated elephants that have died long ago). They are often seen gently investigating the bones with their trunks and feet, and remaining very quiet. Sometimes elephants that are completely unrelated to the deceased will still visit their graves.[22] When an elephant is hurt, other elephants (also even if they are unrelated) will aid them.[10]
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ASL And my thread

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That's the trouble: not enough elephants in our towns and cities.

Can we have more elephants in our towns and cities, please?
 
Very nice. :) Don't think I could improve on that.

I might just have Churchill, Stalin and Truman carving up Europe at the Potsdam Conference or something:

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Or something.
 
I wrote a poem about swimming with dolphins once ...
In the big blue there's a long three foot smile
That curves in harmony, free as the seas,
Expressing a way of life without guile,
Without things to grasp; no locks and no keys.

A new sort of pilgrim visits the bay
(All masked and suited for the occasion)
Descends to the deeps in search of a way
Where life's in peace with all of creation,
And wordless communions deep quiet reign.
The pilgrims are home though far out from land
And feel their being at one with the main,
A sense of rightness where nothing is planned.

We humans with hands, we grasp and we chase;
The dolphins have flippers, freedom and grace.
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I think hi-ASL is mean to mention they can be infanticidal killers that with a penchant for the senseless slaughter other wildlife. The same is true of Tiddles and Marmaduke, and they get a free pass for their playful interspecies killings. So why not dolphins :confused:

Hi-ASL, you make baby hippies cry :mad:
 
:) I like writing poems. Mary says science and poetry really compliment each other.

That one was written for a particularly talkative hippyish girl who'd swum with the dolphin at Dingle, years ago ...
 
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