GP gets mad at what happens to our biggest land friend, the elephant. We certainly don’t like seeing the giants exploited on eBay. Back in July, China got the okay to import ivory of endangered elephants, but sure enough, products and sculptures made of smuggled ivory have found their way into China.

On Nov. 5, 2008 smuggled ivory sculptures were seized by the customs of Hangzhou, the capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province. Some 306 pieces of smuggled articles were seized by Hangzhou customs, then transferred to Zhejiang Museum of Natural History on Wednesday.

Just so smugglers will know their actions will not be tolerated, the precious articles will be shown to the public in the museum! They will be treated before shown, but, what in the world? They will be shown because of why? I am sure the display will discourage smugglers from doing any such future activities … NOT!

Good grief. Can someone tell me what China has on their mind by displaying these items? Maybe, just maybe, somebody smuggled these things in under a tunnel dug into the Great Wall of China.

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More Japanese researchers with nothing to do (remember the whales), have learned, or think they learned that elephants not only don’t forget, they can count, too.

In addition exercises, one elephant scored 87% and another scored 69%. American elephants scored in the lower percentile, wondering aloud “What’s addition?”

Researchers dropped different amounts of food into a bucket, blindfolded the elephant to to determine if Dumbo could conclude which bucket had the most food in it. The animals were tested using their favorite foods – oranges, cabbages, apples and little children.

I wonder, did they think to ask the elephants that got wrong answers if they were hungry or not?

The elephants were able to distinguish between the addition of just one food item, meaning, it’s not just pure guessing. Here’s a question I have – did the elephants know they were being tested? And, did they pray before the tests?

If these images of what happens to elephants who are poached for their ivory don’t make you mad as … I almost swore here, but I don’t do that … then you are as insensitive as the people who seek out the ivory regardless of the creatures who must give their lives for it.

This is how poachers leave elephants.

For the gods!!! Give me a break.

Or for this guy who thinks he is god. Let’s rip his incisors out and see how he likes it.

Or even worse, to have their tusks thrown on a scrap heap.

Make you mad? How mad? Then do something.

The good news is that China is not likely to abuse its privilege of importing ivory from African elephants which are covered by the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) which made the decision at a meeting in Geneva. NOT! What in the world?! China joins Japan as the only two countries that are permitted to import the ivory from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

China had to prove to CITES they had put in place adequate measures to manage regulated sales and tackle any illegal domestic ivory trade. And the number one thief of all IPR and everything else that can be copied is being trusted to keep that promise because of why?

In the future, China and Japan have to bid in a one-off auction of ivory stock piles from those four countries. And the elephants get to express their opinion when? And how? Correct me if I am wrong, but in this case wouldn’t endangered me, don’t break the tusks off the animals?

What’s going on here?