Sad news: baby elephant has died.

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Fish

Um... well that's the whole point of my post (I guess I'm not very good at expressing myself today ). Of course we are the competitor! But as the ultimate competitor, would the elephant, or any other animal, strive to prevent our extinction? Would any other animal mourne if we as a species dissapeared from the earth?

Ahh, okay, I understand what you are saying about humans being the great competitor.

You ask if any other animal would be capable of mourning us if they outcompeted us into extinction. To this I have no answer as I do not know what would go on in the mind of an animal capable of beating us at our own aggressive game.

The only animal that is as aggressive as humans are is other humans. So the question can only be, do we mourn the loss of others we kill in war? Personally, overall, I don't think so.