Collider suggests Captain Marvel could replace Africa, a proposed biopic of the real-life fossil hunter turned protector of elephants Richard Leakey, on the Oscar-winning actor's film-making slate.
But some animals such as dolphins, elephants and in particular the primate family, are capable of forming social bonds to a far stronger extent and actually make conscious decisions to help members of their group with whom they feel a greater affinity.
Each piece of wood had a giant fork driven into it, and a huge metal ring (no doubt to enable elephants or cranes to lift each piece), but in the cobbled streets of St Ives we had to manhandle each piece.
On the menu will be two elephants, two buffaloes, two sable antelopes, five impalas and a lion kindly donated by a local farmer.
And while I'm trying to brag, I once walked a series of 30-mile days as part of Ian Botham's transalpine charity marathon in Hannibal's footsteps, complete with three elephants.
Do you feel a kinship with grieving elephants, I ask Christopher Reid?
Andrewsarchus – a big, prehistoric mammalian carnivore that resembled the villainous Gmork from The Neverending Story – is not a household name despite its apparent ferocity, and the shovel-tusked elephants and bear dogs of the age of mammals have not inspired a "Miocene Park" film franchise.
Although the deal brought some relief to Arsenal, two large elephants remained in the room as the paperwork was being finalised.
The African elephants' range in equatorial Africa has been steadily dwindling, from 3 million square miles in 1979 to just over 1 million square miles in 2007, the World Wildlife Fund has reported.
"I don't know if you've seen the films of what elephants do when they find these bones," says Reid, "but it's terribly moving".
The aerial survey found that in some parts of the country nearly half the elephants seen were already dead.
