The image from the OOP is in the article. TL;DR, male elephants get crazy angry when they’re horny you assert their dominance.
Anon thinks about elephants
Submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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papalonian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
frog@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Musk is a male asshole characterized by aggressive Nazi behavior and accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones.
Denjin@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Could we try going five minutes without bringing him up? It’s exhausting.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Are you implying that he would be the most emotionally intelligent and empathetic animal on the planet, were it not for puberty?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Musth, not Musk
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The rhinoceros beetle says “check this slab of HOT bug SEX sitting before you upon a stick. My stick. No one else may perch upon my throne, my lair, my kingdom, lest they be smote upon the ground like so much errant detritus. I am a fucking god.” Sex appeal is weird across the animal kingdom.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Please point me in the direction to learn about this.
I’ve got some praying to do.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
elephant pregnancy lats 22 months
makes sense that elephant psychosis would last longer too
plyth@feddit.org 1 month ago
Why?
youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Real reason is males are mostly solitary and elephant territories are enormous. Being horny for months gives the males enough motivation to seek out the herd of women and children over the long distances.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
elephants have an unusually long gestation period (and not just for their size, whales are typically only pregnant for about 12 months) Researchers think its necessary to give their brains time to fully develop, of which they have the outright largest of any land mammal and a body-to-brain ratio that rivals our own.
As for psychosis, I’ve been told that for people it typical lasts about a month from whatever triggers it. Maybe the bigger brain would mean it needs more time for the… psychosis(?)… to work through… whatever it’s doing? Honestly, it’s probably not whats happening with the elephants. They sounded superficially similar, so I made a glib comment about it.
IDraw4u@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Well because of how “evolution” - it makes you produce more babies than the others that didn’t fuck and kill. So… That.
plyth@feddit.org 1 month ago
So… Why?
E.g. does it drive predators away and their offspring has a higher chance of survival?
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Animals that fuck more propagate their genes more. If they’re also violent, they’re probably taking out their competitors, and the non-violent ones are likely first to go.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
also btw i read somewhere that Musth (the manic episode) can be shortened down to approximately 2 weeks when the elephants are restrained (with a metal chain) and practically starved a bit (given very little food) for a while. (they survive ofc)
Griffus@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If we hadn’t already nuked ourselves by slaughtering the bees, and the bees suddenly took 80 % of our living space from us to expand their own, we’d be nuking them.
The fascinating part is, why aren’t the smart, massive matriarchs ordering all humans stomped on sight?
Poojabber@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One of us is drunk and not making sense… im not 100% sure, but im leaning toward you…
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
the cycle between the day and the night represents the cycle of mania and peace
brap@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TIL elephants experience pon farr.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
What’s that
buycurious@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a term from Star Trek for the mating cycle of the Vulcan race.
TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just last night, we were watching a show that featured this fact about elephants, and I turned to my girlfriend and made this exact comment! Hilarious
Aarrodri@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Uh?
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Just want to point how weird it is that Spock’s wife is so patient, understanding, and loving in SNW when she’s such an evil conniving bitch in TOS and that’s only a few years later. I’m assuming we’re going to see spock do something awful to her.
Soulcreator@programming.dev 2 months ago
I mean he is kind of in love with the ship’s nurse, it’s not hard to imagine what comes next.
kreekybonez@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
claw plach!