Canis lupus hominis

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1. on April 14, 2009 at 6:27 pm flattie-n-Labbie

   And how exactly did the conversation with the politician and the zookeeper go????

   “Hey, he’s gonna be a great addition to the breeding program…”
   “I dunno about that… not sure he likes the ladies, if ya know what I mean…”
   “Well ya don’t say… How do you know? Is there some kinda test for elephants?”
   “My sister swears she can tell from a mile away… hasn’t been wrong yet…”

   What insanity.

   
   
2. on April 14, 2009 at 10:53 pm ms ann thrope

   Mature? He’s an adolescent! He hasn’t a clue, and needs to be around a group of young bulls in order to learn appropriate behavior, not stuck in a zoo by himself without appropriate elephant social input and only human contact. Yup, that’s how you raise a gay elephant: isolate this highly social animal from his own kind and limit his interaction to humans. Good move. Bet they got him on the cheap!

   
   
   • on April 14, 2009 at 11:06 pm retrieverman

     I actually don’t think elephants belong in captivity, especially in a cold country like Poland. They really need to have wilderness in Asia and Africa, and be left alone.

     There are now three species of elephant: the African savanna elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. It was only recently that the smaller, straight tusked African forest elephants of the Western and Central African countries was separated from the large savanna elephant.

     
     
3. on April 15, 2009 at 2:06 am Audie's Gramma

   How does one tell that an immature elephant is a little light in the umbrella stands?

   Is he trumpeting show tunes?

   Rearranging the rocks in the enclosure for better feng shui?

   Sneeking peeks at Playcow?

   
   
   • on April 15, 2009 at 2:23 am retrieverman

     Well, young bull elephants, I remember hearing on a nature documentary, exhibit male behavior at an early age.

     And he doesn’t.

     But I think these Polish “zoologists” think that elephants are like horses. Now, if I had a stud horse that didn’t like the mares at that age, I’d be a bit concerned.

     I do know a family of gentlemen farmers who purchased a young black Angus bull calf and raised him with two black baldy heifers. When they reached breeding age, the bull wanted nothing to do with them. That’s because young bulls are unlikely to breed with cows from their own natal group. I suspect that something similar might be going on here.

     In the wild, African savanna bull elephants do not live with the matriarchal cow elephant herds. When a young bull is between 10 and 12, he leaves, usually joining a bachelor group. And that’s probably where he should be right now, living other other young bulls. After a decade of that, he would probably take a strong liking to the cows. Plus, if he goes into musth, it will not be safe to leave him around cows that aren’t in season.

     
     

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