Hey buddy,
How fantastic that the largest walking animal on earth (elephant) is able to communicate with the largest swimming animal on earth (Whale).
You are correct. The whole point of the questions are to simply open steemians minds to the possibility that they might be wrong in the way they think and not even know it.
Now that's a pretty hard pill to swallow..
I think ethically/morally we feel a particular way about animals/plants...well anything based on our value set. It's good to have values and stand up for them...but sometimes, we need to hit the reset button and think about where we learned them from? and even question them if necessary to be sure we are standing up for the right things. For instance allot of people think global warming is a myth...even though their own sensors tell them it's not, why? because a level 3 system is in play...it's just something to get peoples minds to open up :)
Just out of interest, many animals communicate with each other, normally in a healthy way that works to keep the balance in nature. What they can't do though is string together sentences or put together stories (well... as far as a level 3 system tells us hehe). There are also many fascinating symbiotic relationships between animal/animal, plant/animal where they work in cooperation to co-exist in a better state then they could if they didn't work together. These things all happen between natural things with out language and communication in the way we know it, i.e. no spoken or written words. I'd like to explore these more in further posts and how humanity could improve our balance with nature in similar ways....
Anyways over to you mate - post the next when your ready :)
Cheers