Elephants and Humans

[SimonKeep]

Whats is it that Elephants and humans can do but no other animal can?

[SimonKeep]

Very good, but I doubt that will win me a chocolate coin in starbucks today!

[boognish76]

Kneel down.

[Janetx]

And go snorkelling.

[ChrisPBacon]

Eat 500lb of foliage and drink 30 gallons of water in a day

[Cetti]

Elephants will administer first aid to wounded companions, applying clay to staunch a flow of blood. Aaaah!! http://newint.org/issue215/facts.htm

[PaulYukochan]

bend the knee forwards

[Cactus]

I think PaulYukochan might have nailed the answer there. Or maybe it's the knee joint of the back legs, cos i can't think of another animal where the back legs bend that way. 'Cept for us humans that is. Unless a Rhino has the same kind of legs as an Elephant!

[Cetti]

When asleep they snore like humans - and they also remember their dead, sometimes travelling great distances to caress the bones of relatives.

[wildwood]

(play the) trumpet.

[Uncorrect]

Well I know this point has been made at least twice and already discarded, but I swear that elephants are the only other creatures with knees that operate like humans' (not to say that you mightn't have seen some squirrels with specially adapted stilts or something :p). More to the point, I have to say that I doubt Starbucks would launch any competition where the answer was 'mourn the dead' and the prize a chocolate coin! Most interesting responses though!