It’s amazing how intelligent and emotionally mature elephants are. It’s not wonder why people were willing to believe that “Elephants have a moon religion!” line for so long, it seems believable with how often elephants seem to act like chonky humans with a trunk instead of arms.
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Juice@midwest.social 1 week ago
The Elephant and Mice episode was so wild, because if I remember correctly, the elephant didn’t act afraid of the mouse, it acted afraid it would step on and harm the mouse; as if the elephant had a basic understanding and concern for the wellbeing of another creature conspicuously lacking in many human beasts
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Chev@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If we would, we would be all vegan.
IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yep. Elephants are wonderfully kind creatures. With my very limited understanding of elephant body language, it didn’t look like an ‘oh no, im scared’ it was more ‘oh hey little guy, didn’t see ya there. ill get outta your way.’
frezik@midwest.social 1 week ago
Just smart as hell. This video makes me wonder if elephants legit have a sense of humor:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VOvEFHDOaU
Animal behavior can be difficult to interpret (and even from experts, I often find myself asking “yeah, but how do we really know that?”), but this looks very close to being like someone who’s known for lighthearted pranks.
IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh my goooooood. This is so delightful, you can almost see the smirk. Thank you for sharing. <3
Lumidaub@feddit.de 1 week ago
I WANT to believe this but I’ve seen too many elephant videos that turned out to be just elephants trained to do a quirky thing for tourists and there’s someone off camera subtly directing them.
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
So long as they’re not a bull in musth.