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Elephants are great; it’s even possible to discuss them without dissing humanity as a whole.
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What if their names turn out to be like Stinkybutt, Weirdears, or Fattrunk?
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Maybe they call them these names behind their backs.
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So kind of like Romans, who had names like Cicero (chickpea, referring to the nose), Sulla (calves), Plautus (flatfoot), and Crassus (fat)?
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Are they more formal with Asian elephants?
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So the dolphins have an alphabet and elephants have names.
What else will we discover? microplastic in everything I guess.
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Piffle! And where is an elephant going to get proper cards of introduction printed?
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Is it me, or is that an Indian elephant in the stock photo?
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