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Like us, elephants "bury" their dead, covering a body with sticks and leaves; they
grieve and mourn a lost loved one as deeply as any human, returning to the remains to pay
their respects periodically, and for years afterwards. Like us, elephants remember - in
fact, they never forget, so they are constantly in touch with friends and loved ones
throughout their life.

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Amazing!

Elephant Funeral:

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makes me wanna

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I AM SWIM said:
Note 2 Mods: This is my growin' account. The one I use to do grow log thangs. I'm not going to troll with it.

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I AM SWIM said:
feels elephants man


Note 2 Mods: This is my growin' account. The one I use to do grow log thangs. I'm not going to troll with it. Plus I'm sick of the underscores in between my name, it's messy and looks bad man.

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And you're out of here!

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Stoneth said:

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I AM SWIM said:
feels elephants man


Note 2 Mods: This is my growin' account. The one I use to do grow log thangs. I'm not going to troll with it. Plus I'm sick of the underscores in between my name, it's messy and looks bad man.

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I AM SWIM said:
Note 2 Mods: This is my growin' account. The one I use to do grow log thangs. I'm not going to troll with it.

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You shouldn't troll with any account, troll.

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I'm upset that you think I'm a troll. Just because I like to type in a
relaxed style, and don't pay attention to grammar, and abuse some of the graemlins
here doesn't mean that I'm trolling. I would look up the definition of trolling, because I don't really bring on any negativity to this website.
And if people have questions I usually answer them legitimately,
especially if it's in a

I'm upset, because I've always enjoyed your posts on The Shroomery, and
thought you were a great person. I should have known better considering that appearances are usually deceiving. So I'm kind of shocked you would say
something like this. But then again, I'm not that shocked, because we never have
had a legitimate conversation with one-another, and not everything is how it appears.

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Alounacara said:
Hes a dumbass

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Wow, way to go! You don't know anything about me.

People forget that there are literally other human beings behind these avatars, and
that words are one of the most powerful things that exist, and can be a benefit/detriment
psychologically. Fortunately I understand that people that usually troll and flame other
people have their own issues that need to be worked out.

By the way, you spelled dumb ass wrong.

Grow up.

But I'm guessing that is why you are on The Growery -- A little nursery for growing up.

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KaptKid said:
Approved cultivation puppets are not allowed in TSL.

At least mine is not.

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Thanks for the response. I didn't know about this.

Anyway, my plants are doing great, I'm doing one full grow using only LED lights, and
my other set up is CFL. I can't wait until I can start using my Tigerbloom.

I know that LED growlogs are rare, and would have posted a growlog on this website,
but after this lame ban, I don't think I want to contribute anything to a site that treats its members like shit.

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Stoneth said:
It's not my fault you choose to break the rules nor is it your first time getting banned for breaking rules

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so grow up, move on, and enjoy the site.

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I don't want to grow up, because I don't want to die. And believe me, I've already moved on.
The site would be a lot more enjoyable if I didn't get banned for BS reasons.
There are plenty of people that already agree with me that this ban was lame.

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I didn't 'choose' to break the rules, I was simply unaware of them.
And I don't see how the fact that it's not my first ban for breaking the rules has anything to do with it.

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After 13 bans, you should have took time to read and know the rules.

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The site would be a lot more enjoyable if I didn't get banned for BS reasons.
There are plenty of people that already agree with me that this ban was lame.

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Have a nice day.
Follow the forum rules, and you'll have nothing at all to cry about.

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The elephant brain is denser than the human's, and the temporal lobes, associated to memory, are more developed than in humans.
Elephant's lobes also have more foldings, so that they can store more information. That's why elephants have excellent memory.

But why? Elephants can recognize over 200 different individuals. This is essential, as females depend on one another for raising the young, more than in the case of other mammals. A mother can remember who is trustful and complex bounds are the bricks of elephants' society, while the memory is the cement. When two elephants approach one another, they emit a "contact appeal": if the other recognizes the appeal, it responds and approaches; if not, it starts to agitate and adopts a defensive position. This capacity of recognition lasts a very long time, even after one individual is dead: even the recording of a dead animal attracted the attention of its relatives and descendants.

The group life allows the elephants to raise their young together. A female gives birth, in the best case, to one young every 4 years, and this one will be well cared.

In critical moments, the family stand on the experience of the oldest and wisest female in the group, called matriarch. She controls the daily activity of the herd and leads the family in areas outside the normal domain. Now, her remarkable memory is employed. She will remember where to go during drought periods and what to do in case of danger, as she already passed through these situations, and the older she is, the more effective she is. Her death is tragic for the group, and poachers usually target her, as she possesses the largest tusks in the herd of females.

But the good memory can have bad effects. A female may remember good feeding places now replaced by crops, and this how human-elephant conflict emerges. And in the end, the elephant always loses.

Males have a very different behavior. They leave the maternal group when adolescent, living a solitary life, wandering around in search of mates. Young males are disadvantaged by their smaller size; females will always reject them. Males can also fight for access to females. The fights are violent, even deadly, that's why a good memory can bring important information about the rivals, since the test fights of the elephant's "childhood". This way, the male knows a lot about the force of the other competitors. But the order can turn into chaos when a male enters a special heat period, called musth, when he turns extremely aggressive due to an overload of testosterone. If a female in heat is nearby, males in musth may fight to death.

Mating requires perfect synchronization. A male can wait 40 years to mate, so that he must know with precision when the female is fertile, meaning 2 days in 4 years! In the rest of the name she is pregnant or suckling a young.

People were amazed for long by the elephants' amazing communication ability. About three decades ago, it was discovered that they use infrasounds, sounds under 16 Hz, which humans cannot hear, to sends signals to other elephants up to 20 km (12.5 mi) away. Sounds we hear do not go far because they are shattered easily by obstacles, like trees or bushes. But infrasounds go around the obstacles, without being shattered, so that they propagate on longer distances.

When emitting infrasounds, elephants use to flutter their ears in a specific way. When they "chat", the fluttering is very slow, but when they greet, the fluttering is rapid. Of course, not all they emitted sounds are infrasounds; some can be heard by humans. Calls have various meanings, like "Let's go!" or :"I want more milk", and over 35 different calls were identified: grumbles, lows, snorings, groans or roars, each with a different signification. This communication is at least as sophisticated as that used by apes and cetaceans.

Some consider elephants to posses consciousness: they have emotions and feelings one for another. The way how they behave with the body of a dead elephant seems to confirm this. It's like they would understand death. They turn the bones and examine each crack, like wanting to wake up a sleeping baby.

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the bizzle said:
Ironic how some people are being malicious in this thread and instead of discussing elephants are just here to give SWIM a hard time


He never does stuff like that, and any of his responses that are remotely negative are only in reaction to being unfairly treated like shit, and even those are relatively docile...

If you really don't like the guy, put him on ignore, and quit giving him a hard time. Some of us truly love him, and he has made a greater impact on some of us than any amount of hypocrisy or unjust treatment from various members on these sites can ever compare to

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Great man