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TIL Brooklyn used to have a huge elephant brothel until it burned down (lemmy.world)

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantine_Colossus

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Elephants have very sophisticated cultures. They are the only animal apart from humans that mourns their dead using elaborate funeral rituals.

Given that prostitution is the world's oldest profession, it stands to reason that if elephants have at least one other profession (funeral director), then they must also have prostitutes.