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Two-ton geniuses who mourn their dead and never let you forget anything.
means The largest living land animals, big-eared and trunk-equipped mammals famous for memory, intelligence, and tight family bonds.
from From Greek elephas, meaning both the ivory and the beast — a word that wandered through Latin into nearly every European tongue.
Trunk musclesRoughly 40,000, no bone inside at all.
Grief ritualsThey revisit and touch the bones of dead kin.
No jumpingThe only mammal that cannot leave the ground.
Low rumbleThey talk in frequencies humans cannot hear.