This could also be taken as horseshoe crabs watching the vertebrates come and go

While this is accurate, it’s worth noting that there used to be hundreds of types of elephants, but they all went extinct except for the African and Asian elephants that are alive today. One reason for this is elephants can’t jump. Like, at all.

Source: some book I read a long time ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel, maybe?

Ha ha ha! That’s a giraffe.