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[non_veritas]

What do we know about elephants? Some results of my inquiries:

Mammals, of the order proboscidea, family elephantidae. The largest land animals, with a gestation period of 22 months (longest of any land animal). Typically live for 50 to 70 years; the oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years. Former (obsolete) order was pachydermata, meaning "

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[xxgunslinger]

You're looking for answers that might not even exist. If he had something to say, why didn't he just say it instead of spouting some cryptic nonsense?

[non_veritas]

On the contrary, Yoko, I am looking for patterns.

Also, do not discount the possibility that he said exactly what he meant to say.

[[ooc - he didn't tag yoko's entry thread, but he did lurk on it; he has not introduced himself to her in any way.]]

[xxgunslinger]

Patterns?

You mean to tell me that he killed himself because we literally can't see what's in front of our eyes? Yeah, that makes sense.

[ooc: Duly noted.]

[non_veritas]

Reasons.

Perhaps more metaphorically than literally, unless invisibility is common here.

[royal_ripper]

And they have a tendancy for suicide~

You were there too?

[non_veritas]

Not in the general sense.

Too? Yes. I was there.

[royal_ripper]

Wouldn't that be amusing?

It was quite boring, in all.

[non_veritas]

Not for the elephants.

I was not bored.

[supershark]

What the fuck is this shit?

[non_veritas]

Precisely what it looks like: information about elephants. You do not find them interesting?

[supershark]

tl;dr.

[non_veritas]

Maybe.

[fortheoldworld]

Want me to look for a zoo?

[non_veritas]

There is a zoo in the park near the museum, and they have an elephant. That said, I have not yet had the chance to visit it myself.

[fortheoldworld]

I'll swing by sometime if you think it'd help anything.

[non_veritas]

It might -- if only to assure us that our elephants are metaphorical rather than zoological, or in the case that they are both.

[down_to_nowhere]

I'm more interested in what urban elephants think their prey is.

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[non_veritas]

Indeed -- or, in fact, what an urban elephant is, and what it wants.

Somehow I suspect it does not eat leaves and bark.

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[down_to_nowhere]

That too.

I suspect we might have more in common with the elephants than the prey.

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[non_veritas]

Yes? If, for example, they walk on two legs, and lack trunks?