Interesting and opposing views

The main point that Siebert makes in his essay "An Elephant Crackup" is that humans need to move past the anthropocentric frame of reference and put elephants in their mental picture. Bradshaw calls this phenomenon a "trans-specie psyche" and Siebert does a good job supporting this claim. He claims that this is the way to communicate with elephants and make them respond to human efforts.
Abram, on the other hand, claims just the opposite. Abram observes that "[humans] cannot know, with the same familiarity and intimacy the lived experience of a frass snake or a snapping turtle" (Abrams 10). It is quite peculiar and interesting how Abrams outright dismisses what seemed to be an intelligent idea after reading Siebert's essay. Although Siebert thinks that this fundamental shift in thinking is "difficult to codify", he still believes that it is the key to solving the problems with the human-elephant relationship.