"[It was] told of the elephants by a king of their country, Juba, that when by the craft of their hunters one of them finds himself caught in certain deep pits that they prepare for them and cover with brush to fool them, his comrades arrive posthaste with many stones and logs to help him get out. But this animal in so many other actions approaches human capacity that if I wanted to trace in detail what experience has taught us about him, I should easily win the argument that I ordinarily maintain, that there is more difference between a given man and a given man than between a given animal and a given man."

—Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebon (1575-1576, 1578-1580), trans. Donald M. Frame