Elephants are people, people are elephants: Human-proboscideans similarities as a case for cross cultural animal humanization in recent and Paleolithic times

摘要

Human and elephants shared habitats and interacted from Paleolithic times to the present day. It appears that pre-historic hunter-gatherers were wise enough to understand that elephants are cohabiters of the human race and not a product to be exploited in an uncontrolled way. The understanding of the long tradition of human and elephant relationship and kinship may change the mind-set of modern humans to lead to carry on the important relationship between man and elephant in particular, and man and nature in general, and prevent future extinctions of all species involved.