In other news, using smoke and mirrors Science has finally demonstrated that elephants are aware of themselves. Now, any fool who has ever talked to an elephant knows this, and the families of those life-long dedicated mahouts of India and Thailand have understood this inherently for over three thousand years, passing the wisdom on from generation unto generation on both the human side and on the elephant side.

You may have forgotten this, or not been there at the time, but somewhere around 300 AD, Ptolemy Philadelphus was presented with a young elephant which understood the Greek language of the district where it had been brought up. Hitherto it was believed that elephants understood only the language spoken by Indians. This according to the early naturalist Aelian, in his seminal work De Natura Animalium from the 3rd Century.

But NOW, Science has spoken with high-priced, carefully establish authority to say it has been proven that elephants are aware of themselves. Proven, no less, through the use of mirrors!! The mind boggles! Why didn't they just ask the mahout families?

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