3. ELEPHANTS ARE SOCIAL, INTELLIGENT CREATURES.

大象是聪明的群居动物

Elephants are very similar to humans. They have family and friends and feel deep emotion. According to Elephant Voices, "elephants are well-known for their intelligence, close family ties and social complexity, and they remember for years other individuals and places."

大象和人类非常相似。他们有家人和朋友，非常有感情。据《大象的声音》称，“大象以聪明、家庭关系亲密以及社会复杂性而著称，他们对其他个体和地点的记忆可以储存多年。”

Not only do elephants remember and feel the pain of torture deeply enough to suffer from post-traumatic stress, but when elephants are brought on trekking camps, they are often ripped away from their herd and forced to live in loneliness.

大象对折磨的痛苦有着深刻的感受和记忆，因而饱受创伤后压力的折磨，不仅如此，当大象被带到大象营时，人们通常将他们和象群分离，强迫他们独自生活。

"Just as we consider solitary confinement as punishment for humans, we should also be thinking that way about elephants," said Stanford professor Caitlin O'Connell in an interview with National Geographic in 2016. "It is not healthy to house elephants by themselves."

2016年，斯坦福大学教授凯特琳•奥康奈尔接受《国家地理》采访时表示：“正如我们认为单独禁闭是对人类的惩罚一样，我们应该想到对于大象也是这样。让大象独居对他们来说是不健康的。”

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