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[theweaselking]

Rogue elephants: What happens when human intervention leaves elephants with no social structure.

New developments with rogue elephants -- they rape and kill rhinoceroses; attack villages with intelligent measures like blocking escape routes and pinning down humans before goring them to death; and display psychological traits previously only observed in people.

Researchers are thinking of this as a sort of emergent species-wide emotional breakdown resulting from human interference over long periods of time and the consequent destruction of important social bonds for the elephants.

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Comments

[dolston.livejournal.com]

That is a really good article.

[graethorne.livejournal.com]

Humans suck.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

We should kill all elephants NOW before they rape US.

[ismarc.livejournal.com]

You can bet if it were donkeys on a raping rampage it'd be all over the news.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

Read that article again, replacing 'elephant' with 'Republican'.

It still works.

-K

(Who obviously should be allowed nowhere near the internet at four AM)

[harald387.livejournal.com]

they rape and kill rhinoceroses

Rhinocerii.

Possibly rhineese.

-K

(This is my brain on sleep deprivation.)

[singingnettle.livejournal.com]

Good god.

Humans are not nearly as unique(or sane) as they think.

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

Actually, -os is a Greek ending, not a Latin ending. My best guess would be rhinoceroi. If it were rhinocerus, then yes, rhinoceri would be correct.

However, as the word has been fully integrated into English, and English bastardizes everything, rhinoceroses is accepted. (Incidentally, rhinoceros as a plural is also accepted, like deer or fish.)

If either of these feel awkward to say, you can shorten it to rhino and rhinos, which is perfectly accepted, although informal.

I am way too obsessed with linguistics, man.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

All of that is entirely true.

However, 'Rhinocerii' is way cooler.

-K

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

True, although I do like the sound of rhinoceroi (I think I'll use that from now on). And hey, like I said, bastardizing other languages is a long-standing English (language) tradition. By that standard, "rhinocerii" is totally acceptable.

[trotfox.livejournal.com]

Ok, see... That's seriously messed up in a way that does not AT ALL surprise me. { : (

I'd like to throw it in the face of all the people who think I'm too sensitive when it comes to the emotions of animals (not to say that all animals are like the elephants.)