Comments on: 12 amazing facts about elephants https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/11/12-amazing-facts-about-elephants/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: chicken405 https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/11/12-amazing-facts-about-elephants/#comment-939967 chicken405 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 03:10:24 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5985#comment-939967 this was great i was doing a school project on elephants and this worked great!! thank you for all the great facts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Tanya https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/11/12-amazing-facts-about-elephants/#comment-883980 Tanya Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:00:38 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5985#comment-883980 Amazing! You live and you learn. Another proof the world we live in is a wonderful place. Unfortunately Man has completely destroyed so many things without ever having learnt how miraculous they were.

]]> By: Barb https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/11/12-amazing-facts-about-elephants/#comment-871592 Barb Sun, 06 Sep 2015 06:53:47 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5985#comment-871592 Thank you. I was going to write that as well. Infrared is on the visual spectrum not acoustic.

]]> By: John S https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/11/12-amazing-facts-about-elephants/#comment-867187 John S Thu, 20 Aug 2015 01:08:26 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5985#comment-867187 This also applies to many other animals some of which will surprise you eg its recently been discovered that Alligators and Crocs like to play One will throw a stick and those around will chase after it AND in Peru a chap rescued and young injured Croc which had been shot by a farmer. He took it home treated and fed it until it was well then he and his brothers returned it to the wild only to find it had returned and was lying on their porch. This was attempted a number of times but the result was always the same it wouldn’t go. Although able to come and go as it wished it stayed with him for many years until it had grown into a huge adult male. There’s a fantastic youtube video showing them together. Either the Croc or the chap are named Chico.
My point is that we still have a lot to learn about the creatures we share this planet with and they may have things that they can teach us

]]> By: latifa https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/11/12-amazing-facts-about-elephants/#comment-866920 latifa Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:29:41 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5985#comment-866920 sincerely i don’t know this informations about elephants . The human must protect and save this animal .Thank You for this
amazing facts about elephants.

]]> By: sophia https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/11/12-amazing-facts-about-elephants/#comment-866247 sophia Sun, 16 Aug 2015 04:11:28 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5985#comment-866247 Wonderful information for those who do not know… but have you ANY idea how incredibly annoying and irritating those animated gifs are? Really, they should stop after the first run through. I will leave a page if they are annoying me, which they do and never get to read the information.

I strongly suspect not many want them repeating themselves endlessly either.

]]> By: Georgia1937 https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/11/12-amazing-facts-about-elephants/#comment-866196 Georgia1937 Sat, 15 Aug 2015 23:47:20 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5985#comment-866196 Great explanation of how elephant-wise/elephant-smart/and wonderful they are. We cannot compare them to humans but they are just as accomplished as we are in an ‘elephant way’.
I am reading a really good book: ‘BEYOND WORDS – what animals think and feel’ and the author is: Carl Safina.

]]> By: William White https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/11/12-amazing-facts-about-elephants/#comment-866164 William White Sat, 15 Aug 2015 22:12:11 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5985#comment-866164 Why just 12 tones? Western music uses 12 semi-tones; Octave to octave, but other cultures use more (some less), which leads me to believe it was a western researcher who came up with this factoid. Try again and I think they’d recognize more including our “blue” notes, the flatted 3rd and 5th tones of a (western) diatonic scales.

]]> By: dglenn https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/11/12-amazing-facts-about-elephants/#comment-866036 dglenn Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:15:23 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5985#comment-866036 #11 “Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead…”
untrue, crows, apes and likely other animals mourn their dead.

]]> By: Vishesh Kumar https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/11/12-amazing-facts-about-elephants/#comment-865517 Vishesh Kumar Thu, 13 Aug 2015 17:45:14 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5985#comment-865517 Number 9 should say “infrasonic” rumbles, not infrared.
Fun list otherwise!

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