Elephants may be smarter than humans for all we know. I was thinking not long ago about just how wild the brain-computer interface could go. These are some seriously wild-ass thoughts too. For example, a bird, with a brain the size of a peanut, could be connected to a server via WIFI, giving it the same or better intelligence as a human. Conversly, a human's consciousness could be transferred into the bird, using the same type of set up . . . . Your pet dog could talk through an interface that has speech-giving capability. This is how wild some of the technology could get . . . . And elephant might make a better computer operator than a human, especially if they have better memories. Imagine sometime it the far future, a fucking elephant being the pilot or navigator of a starship. OK, that is probably a bit to far . . . .

Very sad

I didn't look either. Many animals grieve. I see a family of swans that the coyotes get their signers every year. The mother mourns for weeks. It is heartbreaking.