there's alot of amazing stuff they didn't know about elephants until very recently. among other things, they seem to communicate to other distant(tens of miles) herds through very low bass frequencies incapable of being heard by the human ear. at least one such communicae seems to do with where to find water. another habit attributable to them, found amongst very few other species besides our own, is they seem to honor their dead with some type of ritual and/or ceremony. even to human ears and eyes their obvious sadness and grief over the passing of someone in the herd seems quite obvious and hard to attribute to other causes.........

  -- By Anonymous from gainesville, FL USA on March 16, 2005