Where do African elephants go to die? Detailed answer

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Where do African elephants go to die?

For a long time there was a legend that elephants go to die in mysterious and impregnable elephant cemeteries. It arose because no one found the tusks of dead elephants in the African savannahs and jungles. Only in the 20th century it was established that African porcupines eat these tusks, thus trying to satisfy their mineral hunger.

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What language do the words ax and dog belong to?

We are accustomed to consider these words primordially Russian. However, philologists have found that this is not at all the case. In the VIII-VII centuries BC, at the time when the Slavic ethnos was taking shape, Scythian tribes roamed in the endless steppe between the Danube and Don rivers. It was a powerful, brave, gifted people.

The Scythians are famous not only for their raids on Persia and the Greek colonies, not only for their victories over the famous Roman legions. They left us magnificent examples of small sculpture - images of animals, warriors, scenes of battle and hunting, decorating their armor and weapons, are not inferior to the best examples of Greek art.

The Scythians not only fought - they built cities, laid trade routes. The Scythians lived more or less peacefully with their neighbors, the Slavs, in any case, no mention of serious military clashes was found in the documents of that era. But the fact that there were close ties between the Scythian and Slavic leaders is known for certain. It is also known that the Slavic leaders and their warriors adopted a lot from the Scythian culture.

When peoples are in close contact, such borrowings are inevitable. Including linguistic ones. So, the word "ax" is Scythian. The Slavs called this tool "ax". The word "dog" also came from the language of the Scythians - our ancestors called their four-legged friend "dog". By the way, the word "good" is also Scythian, perfectly coexisting with the original Slavic "good".

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