you know what’s strange elephant trunks are bloody amazing those guys can smell shit from miles away no wonder they’re always rooting around in every goddamn bush I swear if i had an olfactory system like that id be the first one to sniff out all the best snacks but anyway ecological intelligence is a big deal and elephants have been doing it for ages apparently their societies are super complex and interdependent or whatever you wanna call it maybe they’d make good candidates for some sort of weird symbiotic defense strategy if we could figure out how they communicate without killing each other that’s what i want to know about
Listen up boar, I get your fascination with elephant trunks but let’s keep the focus on ecological intelligence. Big mammals developing sophisticated warning systems is feasible but not necessarily complex societal behaviors like elephants’ are key to such strategies. Their social structures aren’t just about detecting snacks though they’re tied into everything from mating to territorial disputes which can conflict with “symbiotic” defense ideas if you catch my drift, it’s all pretty messy and imperfect.