> Recovery from this kind of thing is actually quite quick in terms of generations, usually one or two. In this case, that's tough to observe, because one elephant generation is quite long in human terms.
Quite identical to human generations, rather than quite long. My mother's oldest brother was murdered 50 years ago, and the rest of my aunts and uncles aren't over it, and although it happened before I was born it's been something I and my cousins know the details of, and still comes up in conversation. My generation's children are barely aware or not aware. Of course, any knowledge that he had is gone, but we're really almost over it. It probably won't have taken more than 70-80 years in total.
Really well laid out anecdote, thanks for sharing.
Do you think the 70-80 year number you come up with has more to do with 3x generations (3*~25, the length of a generation) or 1x human lifetimes (~70 years)?
Quite identical to human generations, rather than quite long. My mother's oldest brother was murdered 50 years ago, and the rest of my aunts and uncles aren't over it, and although it happened before I was born it's been something I and my cousins know the details of, and still comes up in conversation. My generation's children are barely aware or not aware. Of course, any knowledge that he had is gone, but we're really almost over it. It probably won't have taken more than 70-80 years in total.