{"id":3909,"date":"2014-08-12T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/13-ways-elephants-are-just-like-us\/"},"modified":"2014-08-12T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T15:23:13","slug":"13-ways-elephants-are-just-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/13-ways-elephants-are-just-like-us\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Ways Elephants Are Just Like Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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April 16th is Save The Elephant Day<\/em>. A day designed to raise awareness to the sad fact elephants may be extinct in twenty years due to ivory trade. <\/span>It\u2019s a shocking estimate, made all the more tragic when you consider how similar we are to our “elephant brothers and sisters.”<\/span><\/p>\n

To help the spread the word about Save the Elephant Day, we present 13 Ways Elephants Are Just Like Us<\/em><\/strong>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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1. THEY SUNBURN (AND TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO NOT SUNBURN)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2. THEY PASS “THE MIRROR TEST” (THEY RECOGNIZE THEMSELVES IN A MIRROR) <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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3. THEY DON’T LIKE TO RUN (ASIAN ELEPHANTS ACTUALLY CAN’T)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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4. FEAR OF LITTLE CRITTERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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5. THEY FORM CLIQUES (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS HERDS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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6. THEY’RE COMPASSIONATE (IF AN ELEPHANT BECOMES SICK, HERD MEMBERS WILL BRING IT FOOD AND HELP SUPPORT IT AS IT STANDS)<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

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7. THEY’RE SOCIAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

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8. THEY’RE EMOTIONALLY COMPLEX (THEY COMMONLY SHOW GRIEF, COOPERATION, AND SELF-AWARENESS) <\/strong><\/p>\n

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9.THEY SWIM<\/strong><\/p>\n

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10. THEY CAN LIVE TO BE OVER 70 YEARS OLD<\/strong><\/p>\n

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11. THEY HAVE POOR EYESIGHT (LIKE SOME OF US)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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12. THEY LAUGH<\/strong><\/p>\n

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13. THEY GREET ONE ANOTHER WITH EXCITEMENT, PARTICULARLY IF IT’S BEEN A WHILE<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Every image used in this post is royalty-free and available for downloading. Be sure to check out even more of royalty-free elephant (and elephant-inspired) images in the below lightbox! <\/p>\n

And, for more information on how you can help make a difference in the plight of elephants, please visit this link: World Elephant Day<\/a> (a day celebrated globally in August). Thank you.<\/p>\n

Header image by Bigstock contributor Mike_Kiev<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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