j reacts to helicopter surgeries on elephants as an allegory for alien contact

let's forget about whether alien abductions have any real evidence supporting them, or even whether it's plausible, and just think if we can find examples that we can observe that might help us crudely understand what it would be like.

i've seen a bunch of videos like this. this is one of the less intense ones. and, they seem a little bit more relevant when applied to elephants - who are extremely smart - rather than rhinos.

for example, i saw one video of a team of doctors swooping in on an elephant with a calf in a helicopter, shooting it with a tranquillizer gun from the helicopter, jumping out, separating the calf, performing beneficial surgery on it, sewing it up and flying off.

if you were an elephant, wouldn't that seem a lot like an alien abduction? would the other elephants believe you? would any of the elephants be able to realize that the aliens were actually humans?

we're not exactly sure where elephants are cognitively, but there's some thinking that they can differentiate between languages and even understand context syntax. as far as we know, humans are the only other animals that can understand context syntax. they appear to bury their dead, which suggests some beginning concept of religion. nor do we completely understand how they communicate, but we think they may have developed some kind of language through the emission of ground vibrations.

the point i'm trying to get at is that they may not be far from where we were when we first developed the sky-god religions. one attempt to try and rationalize these sky-god religions is to suggest that they may be a memory of contact.

go find some videos of humans interacting with wildlife in africa via helicopter and come back and tell me that's crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdP-m2h53G8