Elephants honor their dead?

I remember when beavers were admired for their architectural skills, until some behaviourist killjoy discovered that a dumb beaver will put sticks over anything that sounds like running water, even a speaker playing the sound of running water. Dumb animals.

This only makes me like elephants even more.

Elephant graveyards in Tarzan movie roXor.

i wonder if elephants have elephant ghost stories.

Do they freak out at mice?

It's quite well-accepted now that animals do in fact have feelings, some are even anthropomorphic such as mourning for dead relatives.

http://animal.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030811/emotions.html

"It is amazing that time and resources still need to be wasted convincing some that what looks like distress in a rat, is, in fact, distress," Greek said.

And in conclusion to the article:

For Greek, and millions of people who enjoy the companionship of animals, behavioral studies in lab animals has become an oxymoron.

"Either the emotions of animals are like man's, in which case it is wrong to subject them to such tests, or the animals' emotional lives are so different from man that studying their response in the lab is unlikely to ever yield any tangible gains for human health. They simply cannot have it both ways."

That's not an oxymoron.

It's a completely hopeless article all the way through. I'm inclined to think that animals have feelings, but there is nothing in that piece that adds to that inclination at all.