White elephant discovery 'a positive omen'

If it means no war in the country, then why not adopt the elephant? I think it's a better solution then the latter. Although, it's pretty ambiguous. edit: typo edit, edit: damn edit button!

Who really knows what the animal wants though. A "wild" life means a struggle for survival. An animal like this will be treated very well, it'll always have food, medical attention, proper shelter and probably eventually given a mate. It'll surely live far longer with anything it could need than it would in the wild. What else could an animal want with life? An animal doesn't 'want' like that, though. It doesn't understand what's going on around it. Instinct will tell it that the pampering will end at some point, and it'll have to 'go back' to being wild.

Who really knows what the animal wants though. A "wild" life means a struggle for survival. An animal like this will be treated very well, it'll always have food, medical attention, proper shelter and probably eventually given a mate. It'll surely live far longer with anything it could need than it would in the wild. What else could an animal want with life? We don't know what an animal wants, but we can look at what science tells us that a large proportion of zoo elephants show high levels of stress and streotypies; Stereotypies in zoo elephants Some even suggest zoo elephants live shorter li... [More]

I fully agree with Cetacea

Sounds like good hunting more then any omen to me

I agree with Cetacea, too. A gilded cage is none the less a cage. If you want the love of Mother Earth and her protection, protect the elephants and the habitats they live in.

Hey look , a animal that has made it 18 years being in the wild as a albino , and it survived.....Let's catch it , and take it away......

Comrade Funky OwlAn animal doesn't 'want' like that, though. It doesn't understand what's going on around it. Instinct will tell it that the pampering will end at some point, and it'll have to 'go back' to being wild. That's absolutely right.

Sounds like good hunting more then any omen to me Seconded.

An animal doesn't 'want' like that, though. It doesn't understand what's going on around it. Instinct will tell it that the pampering will end at some point, and it'll have to 'go back' to being wild. Well we, humans, are animals as well, and we wants things, we understand whats going on around us(to some extent at least), so how do you know other animals dont have similar feelings and/or thoughts?