Sure, road testing is very good and all that, but if you really want to know how tough a tire can be, give it to a baby elephant like little Jun and watch her give it a real workout.
Sure, road testing is very good and all that, but if you really want to know how tough a tire can be, give it to a baby elephant like little Jun and watch her give it a real workout.
Oh, goodness, I needed that! I wonder if elephants have a sense of cuteness. I’m positive they feel love and they love their babies (and their baby siblings, baby other relatives, babies in the community). But do they appreciate cuteness? Or beauty? And if they do, what are the things they think are cute or beautiful?
I’ve read that scientists say that they think *we* are cute! I don’t what research went into that, but I’ll take it!
Snopes actually has an article about it! They say “Unproven.”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elephants-think-humans-cute/
(And it says the person who popularized the idea works as a volunteer for the American Gerbil Society! So now I know that exists.)
“We found that tamed African elephants preferentially and favorably interact (and initiate these interactions) with humans with whom they have a special relationship. We don’t know what elephants “think” about humans, but they appear to value certain relationships they have with certain humans. Elephants nonetheless can be extremely unpredictable in their behaviors to people.”
If nothing else, the Snopes article contains this adorable heffalump.
And the gerbil page has lots of cute pictures, plus an adoption page with links to places including the GPD Gerbil Ranch in Cumberland Gap, TN. I need to see a gerbil ranch now. And another one called Gerbils in Hats in Massachusetts.
Okay, now American Gerbil Society is now bookmarked. Had gerbils for 15 years and didn’t know about this!
Thanks, but I’ll keep my tires away from little Jun!
Happy baby heffalumps make any day better. What an adorable little one.