Posts tagged “isolation”

  1. A university research team conducting a decade-long study on several group of Asian and African elephants revealed that, much like humans, elephants often manipulate and isolate distressed individuals by withholding common, everyday physical touches or pointedly refusing to vocalize. This is the first empirical evidence of calculated indifference in elephant society. The targeted elephant, often bewildered by its sudden (and often unjustified) abandonment, will roar, bellow, or emit a series of low-frequency growls in order…

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  2. In a room lit only by the dim blue glow of his laptop screen, a man who regularly turns down rides to post-work happy hours and invitations to see old friends in order to get into his pajamas as quickly as possible and watch TV shows he's already seen alone in bed was suddenly overcome by the horrifying certainty that he is not truly known or understood by another single living human being.

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