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“While the International Fund for Animal Welfare warns that the slaughter of elephants is funding the killing of humans, there are more traditional fears for the survival of elephants in Kenya’s Amboseli region. On Richard Leakey’s authoritative blog, one of the world’s most knowledgeable elephants experts, Cynthia Moss, reveals that 14 elephants have been speared in Amboseli since the start of the year”- IndyBlogs

“Today, in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, the first hard evidence is published of how elephants, like humans, attach great importance to the dead, feeling moved to touch them with their trunks and feet, and often revisiting carcasses. The study by Karen McComb and Lucy Baker of Sussex University and Cynthia Moss of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants adds to the mountain of evidence to show that humans have far fewer unique characteristics than once thought.” - Telegraph