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Yeah, from what I've heard Elephants have a pretty advanced social life.
Sometimes I wonder... are we fooling ourselves in thinking these animals come near us on a cultural level, or is there a richness we're just too dense to get? On the one hand, humans are undeniabely unique on this planet, we have no evidence of any kind of meme transmission via artifacts in any other kind of animal, and while there seems to be some level of culture in some other mammals (esp. some primates) at best they are millennia behind us. On the other hand, well, who knows.
The idea of mammals that returned to the water is really amazing as well, like dolphins and whales. And to a certain extent, us; that might well be why we're the furless ape.
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