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From the Ted Talk by Carl Safina: What are animals thinking and feeling?
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This is an elephant neamd Philo. He was a young male. This is him four days later. Humans not only can feel grief, we create an awful lot of it. We want to cvare their teeth. Why can't we wait for them to die? Elephants once ranged from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea all the way down to the Cape of Good Hope. In 1980, there were vast strongholds of elephant range in ctarnel and etasren Africa. And now their range is shattered into little shards. This is the ggphaeroy of an animal that we are driving to extinction, a fellow being, the most magnificent caertrue on land.
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This is an elephant _____ Philo. He was a young male. This is him four days later. Humans not only can feel grief, we create an awful lot of it. We want to _____ their teeth. Why can't we wait for them to die? Elephants once ranged from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea all the way down to the Cape of Good Hope. In 1980, there were vast strongholds of elephant range in _______ and _______ Africa. And now their range is shattered into little shards. This is the _________ of an animal that we are driving to extinction, a fellow being, the most magnificent ________ on land.
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- carve
- creature
- named
- geography
- eastern
- central
Original Text
This is an elephant named Philo. He was a young male. This is him four days later. Humans not only can feel grief, we create an awful lot of it. We want to carve their teeth. Why can't we wait for them to die? Elephants once ranged from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea all the way down to the Cape of Good Hope. In 1980, there were vast strongholds of elephant range in Central and Eastern Africa. And now their range is shattered into little shards. This is the geography of an animal that we are driving to extinction, a fellow being, the most magnificent creature on land.
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