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Just like in human populations there is a range of personality and intelligence within animals. Elephants have been documented as showing keen intelligence and personality to the Roman empire.
For example, I watched a show on bear researchers in Alaska talking about the different bear personalities in the area and one male was described as a "psycho" that all the other bears avoided and that they kept an eye on at all times when doing research.
I think that many people carry thier biases about animals into encounters with them and assume they are monolithic in behavior.
P.S. I've read some VERY interesting articles on how smart King Cobra's are. Generally regarded as being as smart as dogs.
But something about elephants that always stuck with me...
...once at the zoo in the winter time they had an (African) elephant chained up in inside. The Elephant wad distressed and was feeling the chain with his truck. He looked right at me as if to say "help me"; it broke my heart.
I think many animals are smarter than we give them credit for.
Well of course he was trained. Did you actually think anyone here thought artistic inspiration just struck this young elephant?
The POINT is, regardless of the fact that he was trained, it still takes an incredibly intelligent animal to absorb that kind of training and succeed at it.
Some of us humans can't even do that with all the training in the world.
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