It is not just mirrors that elephants can figure out - they can also flush toilets! [OK, jokes aside, click on the link to see what is really happening]
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Here is the second in what will be a series of posts on how little things like changes in technology we take for granted, or simple behaviors, can have a big impact on water use.
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Miranda Devine likes to import the ideas for her anti-environmentalist screeds from America.
I have to apologize for last week's Dose of Woo.
I'm currently in Las Vegas anxiously waiting for The Amazing Meeting to start.
Darn, if only elephants had two trunks, then they could make tools, start fires, sit around a camp fire and develope language, make plans, make iron, and then fabricate spaceships.
But alas, they're stuck with that one trunk until some like us come around and bioengineers them one... two.
Whales and dolphine have it even worse off on the road to intelligence.