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|u/Syntetic0 - 11 hours
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|B It's amazing how animals (elephants in this case) find ways to show
|affection to their dead companions. Touching video
|u/adod1 - 8 hours
|
|I'm sure its not the case but it looked like his homie even tried CPR
|haha.
|u/LBraised562 - 7 hours
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|He was giving him something and it wasn’t CPR
|u/Intelligent_Row_6581 - 3 hours
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|Rub one out for the homies that didn’t make it.
|u/HeadPay32 - 58 minutes
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|They're so like us
|u/jld2k6 - 5 hours
|
|Call me crazy, but I think that elephant may have been giving him
|the business
|u/champsammy14 - 4 hours
|
|Okay... So I wasn't the only one ✊😔🍆
|u/cassey7926 - 6 hours
|
|There's only five types of animal that are capable of mourning
|/grieving. Elephants are one of them and it makes it so much sadder
|when they are poached just for tusk
|u/SwordOfAeolus - 5 hours
|
|> There's only five types of animal that are capable of mourning
|/grieving. That sounds like a completely made up factoid from a
|listicle.
|u/Tasty-Pass4604 - 5 hours
|
|Likely true as only five such lists have ever been published
|u/Drownthem - 4 hours
|
|Yeah this is deep bullshit. Even if we only knew of five it would
|be idiotic to claim that's all of them.
|u/SLStonedPanda - 2 hours
|
|I can easily name 5. Elephants, Rats, Most birds, Dogs,
|Cats, And I'm sure dolphins do as well. There's definitely
|more than 5 types.
|u/Obscure_Moniker - 2 hours
|
|Most species of ape do this. Chimps will carry dead relatives on
|their back until they're literally rotting off and can't be
|picked up.
|u/krazyokami - 56 minutes
|
|I remember some troop of monkeys in India. One baby died and
|the mother carried him until he officially rotted. I think she
|even tried to steal another baby when she had to get rid of
|the corpse.
|u/cthulhus_spawn - 3 minutes
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|Cetaceans too
|u/manere - 2 hours
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|Donkeys and Horses as well.
|u/ListenOk4029 - 3 hours
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|You won't believe number three!
|u/sharpdullard69 - 53 minutes
|
|1. Humans 2. Elephants 3. Water Moccasins 4. Narwhals 5.
|Tardigrades
|u/Palaponel - 5 hours
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|Poached for trunks or ivory?
|u/mobileappistdoodoo - 52 minutes
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|It’s plankton!
|u/Dalisca - 21 minutes
|
|Got into a fight with a bigger elephant for mating rights.
|u/Palaponel - 15 minutes
|
|Yes, I'm aware. The person above me is talking about the fact
|that elephants are poached in general, but in their original
|comment they said trunk rather than tusk. Elephants are not
|poached for their trunks, hence my comment.
|u/Grepus - 4 hours
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|Tusks... trunks are the nose lol
|u/ThisIsNotRealityIsIt - 4 hours
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|Both actually.
|[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/07/demand-
|elephant-products-drives-dramatic-rise-poaching-myanmar](https://w
|ww.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/07/demand-elephant-
|products-drives-dramatic-rise-poaching-myanmar)
|u/Grepus - 4 hours
|
|Well, TIL... More magic potions
|u/MaestroLogical - 6 hours
|
|I do wonder if it's truly grieving or if we are just seeing what we
|want to see. It's also entirely possible that what we witnessed
|wasn't grieving but was more akin to checking to see if they were
|faking it. Like when you think someone is faking being asleep so you
|do something like threaten to tickle them to prove it. All we see,
|like the gentle touching with back legs, are things that living
|animals are primed to avoid/react to. Those huge legs come down with
|weight, so any living animal would react to get out of danger. It's
|like saying "I'm gonna step on you if you don't move". When they
|don't move, they know it's no longer part of the pack and simply
|move on. Now personally, I do see it as grieving, showing
|solidarity and recognizing loss, possibly without the emotional
|weight that we humans feel but mourning all the same, but it's
|interesting to see how we don't truly know with regards to these
|questions.
|u/whaleboobs - 5 hours
|
|> *It's also entirely possible* that what we witnessed wasn't
|grieving but was more akin to checking to see if they were faking
|it. Like when you think someone is faking being asleep so you do
|something like threaten to tickle them to prove it. The Joe
|Rogan buzzword! Elephants doesn't have a concept of death but
|they have a concept of faking death? Not a fan of Occam's razor,
|are you?
|u/Purplepeal - 4 hours
|
|They will be aware of sleep, seeing it regularly and will
|knowwhat makes fellow elephants wake up, such as proding them,
|squashing them a bit etc. They could be doing that. We can't
|be certain if this is grief caused by the sadness of losing
|'someone' they cared about or curiosity based on why Nellie
|won't wake up from their nap.
|u/ThisIsNotRealityIsIt - 4 hours
|
|If that were so, there would be untold hours of video of
|elephants doing these mourning rituals (climbing on, the
|backwards walk and touch with your back foot, etc) to living,
|but sleeping, elephants. There are virtually *zero* examples
|of this occurring.
|u/BenevolentCheese - 7 minutes
|
|It's almost like adult elephants don't just randomly take
|naps in the middle of the savannah all alone and completely
|unprotected!
|u/Purplepeal - 3 hours
|
|Maybe so. I just googled elephants waking each other up and
|found a video similar to this. In the wild apparently some
|sleep and some watch the herd, then wake them if there is
|danger. I've seen a video on reddit of a mother elephant
|trying in vain to wake its baby. Also likeley that most
|elephants will already be awake by the time tourists with
|cameras arrive in their noisey jeeps. All I'm saying is I'm
|not convinced it's much deeper than the same behaviours of
|trying to wake a sleepy or unwell alive elephant. Nice to
|think it is though.
|u/ThisIsNotRealityIsIt - 3 hours
|
|And that video you found, they were doing it over the
|course of multiple days, the way elephants have been
|observed and recorded grieving for hundreds if not
|thousands of years? Secondarily, I have no idea how you
|think nature observation, study, and photography occur,
|but it has *nothing* to do with a jeep full of tourists.
|Nature photographers set up cameras far away and use
|telephoto lenses to capture photos and video, and have
|been doing so since about the same time National
|Geographic was founded, in the late 1880s. Coincidentally,
|the first telephoto lenses were developed somewhere
|between the 1860s and the 1890s, depending on whether you
|believe the father or son named Dallmeyer invented it.
|And whether you think it'd be "nice" or not, both African
|and Asian elephants have been observed to bury their dead
|- covering the carcass with leaves, fronds, whatever
|vegetation is around. Here's a recent article
|[https://www.newscientist.com/article/2420561-asian-
|elephants-seen-burying-their-dead-for-the-first-
|time/](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2420561-asian-
|elephants-seen-burying-their-dead-for-the-first-time/)
|That's not "checking if they're awake".
|u/Purplepeal - 2 hours
|
|How do you know what video I found? I know how nature
|photography works, my comment about tourist jeeps was in
|response to you saying there would be hours of footage,
|implying it would be filmed all the time and tourist
|videos are the most ubiquitous. Also your link talks
|about seeing them buried for the first time, implying
|that is very rare, that doesn't compare well with the
|lack of credibility you attribute to the lack of videos
|of elephants waking each other up. Also 'buried' is an
|interesting interpretation. The baby elephants were
|rolled into a ditch. Ditches are much easier to roll
|things into than out of so a parent pushing their infant
|around trying to wake it could easily push it into a
|ditch. The video I watched showed an elephant kicking
|dust over another sleeping elephant. Perhaps that's what
|the mother was doing when she buried it, since she could
|no longer push it with her feet. Regardless of any of
|this, my point is we can't attribute meaning to what is
|going through an elephant's mind when they are
|performing a behaviour similar to humans. What makes it
|significant for us is its similarity to our own
|behaviour during one of the most traumatic events of our
|lives. That can make us biased and assume they have a
|comparable interpretation of death to us, but you can't
|know that as we can't communicate with them. I'm just
|offering alternative, less romantic theories as to why
|the behaviour could exist.
|u/Reallyhotshowers - 28 minutes
|
|I mean, you could keep arguing or you could just
|Google "How do we know elephants grieve" and learn
|more about the evidence that exists beyond what's in
|this video. While you're at it you could also Google
|the research that's been done on the emotional
|processing center in elephants (the hippocampus) which
|is quite large and complex. In fact, it's
|proportionally larger in elephants than it is even in
|humans. You could even investigate the well documented
|grieving process of elephants, some of which is not
|included in this video (like the elephants returning
|to the site for years). Or you could keep ignorantly
|basing your entire argument on a few YouTube videos of
|elephants trying to wake each other up, your call.
|But there's a preponderance of evidence, both
|observational and through examining their brain
|structure that really goes against your theory in this
|case.
|u/BenevolentCheese - 4 minutes
|
|> How do you know what video I found? He doesn't,
|because you didn't share it because you knew it wasn't
|good enough to support what you're trying to claim.
|u/_nix-addict - 2 hours
|
|You're just some dude sitting in a sweaty gaming chair
|thinking a little bit too hard about all of this. Just
|leave it to the people that actually live with this
|animals to tell us what's up hombre. You don't need to be
|a reddit elephant expert.
|u/Purplepeal - 2 hours
|
|Hey Nix. Not sure if you're replying to me or not but
|think you might be. If so the same assumption you made
|about me being a sweaty gamer dude, on minimal evidence
|is the same reason why you shouldn't assume elephants
|are mourning their dead.
|u/roadrunnuh - 44 minutes
|
|Can you explain that connection? I'm not seeing it
|u/justuselotion - 4 hours
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|Or enslaved for labor or entertainment. Shame on us.
|u/GullibleAntelope - 4 hours
|
|We are waiting for the other 4.
|u/Philodendron43 - 2 hours
|
|I live in South Africa, and recently on a holiday game drive the
|ranger told us that when they have to cull to control the elephant
|population in that particular reserve, they have to take the entire
|herd because any surviving elephants are just too traumatised, and
|become too dangerous.
|u/justuselotion - 4 hours
|
|And it’s sad to know these animals who display such emotions are
|enslaved and held captive. Disgusting. Shame on us
|u/Georgina_Gio - 1 hour
|
|This video touched my soul. Animals feel deeply.
|u/Least-Feedback-2484 - 10 hours
|
|1 elephant dies so 100's of animals can live on. What a purposeful
|death. That's more than I can ever expect
|u/BullHeadTee - 10 hours
|
|At best we donate our body to science and some hungover med student
|gets a F for dissecting our body all wrong…teacher will have write a
|big F on my tit and throw my body in with the other F bodies…do a time
|lapse of that
|u/Oscillatingballsweat - 10 hours
|
|Nah, we usually only get graded on identifying what the pins are
|sticking into *after* we screw up the dissection. You know you did
|a really bad job with the dissection when on exam day you walk into
|the lab and the body you worked on is covered with a blanket and
|labeled a "rest station..."
|u/ZubinM - 10 hours
|
|What does "rest station" mean?
|u/Hakujushi - 9 hours
|
|Basically a stopping point for students to check and review
|their work/answers. It’s usually just an assigned space in the
|classroom to help them mentally review and process, or take the
|time to think about a difficult question. Or straight up “rest”
|for a station in the classroom to open.
|u/Sea_Mountain_4703 - 6 hours
|
|Those rest stations always make me doubt myself lol.
|u/iPon3 - 7 hours
|
|Imagine dying, being partially embalmed, and being dissected by
|some sleep deprived students so badly that you don't get to be in
|the anatomy spotter test with all your cadaver friends
|u/PretendPop8930 - 6 hours
|
|Cadaver, mmmmhhhh. Casket...
|u/Germanminer12 - 5 hours
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|I love that meme
|u/Any_Possibility3964 - 9 hours
|
|lol man anatomy lab was wild
|u/ODIRiKRON - 9 hours
|
|Read ‘Stiff’ by Mary Roach - seems like there’s a lot more respect
|for medically donated bodies than I ever imagined.
|u/zamardii12 - 10 hours
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|A Louis CK fan
|u/thatNBASongGuy - 9 hours
|
|Knew I recognized this. It's a bit lame to pass it off as your
|own. Still hope you have a good day, u/BullHeadTee. You've got
|good taste.
|u/Basementdwell - 6 hours
|
|Do you source every joke you've ever made in your life?
|u/thatNBASongGuy - 6 hours
|
|They didn't make anything up. And it's not common enough a
|reference that many people would recognize it, so it seems
|pretty clear what they were up to. Just saying.
|u/Basementdwell - 5 hours
|
|Sure, and i bet you didn't come up with one percent of the
|jokes you've told in your life. None of us have.
|u/Treehouse326 - 9 hours
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|Why is this so damn funny to me lmao
|u/asdf49 - 7 hours
|
|It's a Louis CK bit.
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3p-3DZLQY4&t=138
|u/DumbleDude2 - 7 hours
|
|One of those med students will become a genius surgeon and use his
|power to save thousands of lives. He will also fuck your wife.
|u/XkF21WNJ - 1 hour
|
|I mean, you're dead right? If you truly care you'd be happy she
|found someone new eventually. Age difference could be a bit
|awkward, depending.
|u/monkey_trumpets - 9 hours
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|You can get turned into a tree.
|u/Figgywithit - 5 hours
|
|Medical schools are using cadavers less and less these days.
|u/prestonpiggy - 2 hours
|
|In my country to sign up as organ donor if death. You can write your
|rules, mines are "only for medical purposes" So I don't want to be a
|shooting dummy for testing bullets or explosives.
|u/Sardonnicus - 1 hour
|
|Nope there are places where you can have a natural burial where they
|place your body way out on the back corner of someone's very large
|and secluded property and you basically decompose and become food
|for animals
|u/Not-So-Logitech - 1 hour
|
|Louis CK. At least credit where you stole it from.
|u/Not-So-Logitech - 1 hour
|
|Louis CK. At least credit where you stole it from.
|u/Not-So-Logitech - 1 hour
|
|Louis CK. At least credit where you stole it from.
|u/insid3outl4w - 38 seconds
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|Thanks Louis CK
|u/WarthogConfident7809 - 6 hours
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|At least let us grade them before you agree to an F. Lol
|u/El_Ass_Eater - 2 hours
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|Way to rip off Louis CK
|u/DontGiveACluck - 7 hours
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|F
|u/zemol42 - 7 hours
|
|I’ve seen the same thing with whales. When they hit the sea floor, it
|becomes Christmas for the oceans’ ecosystems
|u/Palaponel - 5 hours
|
|This is also the case when they wash ashore, but when they die at
|sea (as they mostly do) it is known as a "whale fall" and if I
|recall correctly there are species of animal that are almost
|entirely dependent on whale falls to survive. It's really a
|beautiful thing. I'm just now thinking about how peculiar it is
|that we demonise scavengers so much when they are generally behaving
|much more in line with modern ideas of ethics, but we lionise
|predators despite them literally killing constantly in order to eat
|(not that we have to pass a moral judgement, I'm just saying that we
|could at least be consistent).
|u/Reallyhotshowers - 45 minutes
|
|Humans are predators who kill to eat, and whose digestive tracts
|can't reliably eat meat that's been sitting out for days. So
|scavengers eating old ass meat triggers an instinctual disgust
|response, because they're often eating things that would already
|be harmful for us to eat. A predator eating a fresh kill "feels"
|more natural to us because it's closer to how we feed ourselves.
|u/Palaponel - 43 minutes
|
|Good point, I guess I'm thinking a bit too highly of us as
|sapient life forms and not just instinctive creatures.
|u/Reallyhotshowers - 39 minutes
|
|That's the fun of human beings - we're both!
|u/MobiusF117 - 3 hours
|
|Whale falls create their own ecosystem over the course of several
|decades.
|u/GratefulForGarcia - 9 hours
|
|Nah believe in yourself. Just get chunky and once the Water Wars begin
|plenty of us will eat ya
|u/misterchevious - 7 hours
|
|Well I tried to get permission from the local state park to let me
|have a tibetan sky burial when I die, they said no, but I guess where
|it happens isn't as important as ensuring I get picked apart by
|vultures. It could be on top of a water tower for all I care.
|u/bigasswhitegirl - 3 hours
|
|>Well I tried to get permission from the local state park to let me
|have a tibetan sky burial when I die, they said no What're they
|gonna do? Arrest you?
|u/EconomyAd4297 - 7 hours
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|I’ll eat u if u want. Just give me a heads up.
|u/odonata_rising - 6 hours
|
|"someday you will die and somehow somethin's gonna steal your carbon"
|-modest mouse
|u/WpgMBNews - 1 hour
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|i guess human burial practices must be good for carbon
|sequestration
|u/SuperKing37 - 7 hours
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|Look up sky burial
|u/smb275 - 6 hours
|
|I plan on my remains being used as part of a summoning ritual to bring
|Glycon back to the mortal plane, ushering in the return of the Old
|Gods and the slaughter of mankind.
|u/Melodic-Ask-155 - 4 hours
|
|As fucked as it sounds, your corpse will feed much smaller organisms 🤢
|when I was a kid, I once saw a pigeon hopping around in my yard and it
|looked like it hurt, I have it a little shot glass of water and went
|back inside for dinner for maybe half an hour, when I came back
|outside to check on it, it was already dead and some ants were already
|doing their job
|u/StarLord_4969 - 5 hours
|
|I was going to say an all you can eat buffet but this is a much better
|way to put it.
|u/Several_Excuse_5796 - 4 hours
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|Just book a ticket to africa when it's time then lol
|u/Chief_Chill - 1 hour
|
|I think one of the saddest things about humanity is how we removed
|ourselves from the circle of life on the planet. Sure, we still die.
|But, our deaths no longer contribute to anything meaningful for the
|other animals we share the world with. We fill our corpse bags with
|chemicals and store them underground in a mini pillowed bunker.
|Cemeteries are a waste of perfectly good land. Personally, I'd like
|to be placed in one of those tree things in a memorial forest or
|something. Maintain my position in this cycle.
|u/Juus - 1 hour
|
|>1 elephant dies so 100's of animals can live on. What a purposeful
|death. That's more than I can ever expect If you are a human being in
|the west, even a small part of your salary can have profound effects
|through effective altruism. Much greater effect than what you just
|witnessed. Check out 80000 hours article on effective altruism if
|you are interested in making a meaningful difference.
|https://80000hours.org/articles/effective-altruism/
|u/sharpdullard69 - 52 minutes
|
|we should kill most of them and watch the other species thrive!
|u/lzwzli - 41 minutes
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|I'm sure if you went and died in the Serengeti, 100s of animals will
|live off your corpse too. Be the change you want to see!
|u/boragur - 10 hours
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|This is kinda like a smaller scale whale fall
|u/rn_eq - 10 hours
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|absolutely
|u/RaptorsFromSpace - 4 hours
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|Elephall
|u/your_cock_my_ass - 4 hours
|
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxSUsn8H2zs I watched this video on a
|whale fall, super interesting.
|u/mamamaryjuanna - 3 hours
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|Thank you posting that.
|u/ForceBlade - 3 hours
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|Absolutely the same thing but on the ground
|u/nochemistry4u - 2 hours
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|Is it a fall or rise? If they float when they die?
|u/huntexlol - 2 hours
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|except its less cordial here. They should learn to share nicely like
|in the deep sea, those hyenas were pissed
|u/FourEightNineOneOne - 10 hours
|
|Amazing. You see all sorts of animals show up on that timelapse.
|Buzzards. Hyenas. Leopards. A pickup truck. Nature is so diverse.
|u/torvus-nog - 9 hours
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|dont forget the elephant at the end, after the commotion
|u/liccxolydian - 7 hours
|
|"oh that's Frank, he's had a rough couple days"
|u/eat_my_bubbles - 1 hour
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|Making sure he finished the job
|u/Alive_Initiative1817 - 1 hour
|
|What’s crazy is in the time lapse you can see elephants coming down
|the road and watching the feast every so often
|u/shaunsanders - 6 hours
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|My favorite was the elephant who showed up super late to grieve and
|was embarrassed that it was only a skeleton at that point.
|u/RevolvingCatflap - 1 hour
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|He had to return some video tapes
|u/Murky_Crow - 9 hours
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|https://youtu.be/Gk7pW0tkm5I?si=4jehiCGVYSpXbToD
|u/Palaponel - 4 hours
|
|It really helps visualise how interconnected the biosphere is. It's
|why every species that goes extinct is such a tragedy. There used to
|be 20-40x the number of elephants, but we hunted them to near
|extinction. This sort of video really helps the average person
|comprehend why even if humans had never hunted hyenas or poisoned this
|species of vulture, merely the impact of hunting elephants would
|devastate those species too.
|u/Fast-Veterinarian-41 - 8 hours
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|I mean it was like a foot off of a road..
|u/Mertoot - 4 hours
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|What a sigma death
|u/DerrickWhiteMVP - 10 hours
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|It’s crazy how these animals can eat a carcass sitting outside for days
|and weeks, but we would die if we did that lol.
|u/Melodic-Appeal7390 - 9 hours
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|But then it may not be so surprising that most of them complete their
|life cycle before a human brain is fully developed.
|u/Hey_Fuck_Tard - 8 hours
|
|I was thinking the same thing. Kind of wonder how long it took for
|humans/neanderthals to figure out we can't eat things that have been
|dead for awhile.
|u/SureFunctions - 7 hours
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|I am completely speculating, but we might have had a greater ability
|to handle rotten meat before we started cooking food.
|u/ForceBlade - 3 hours
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|Yeah we would’ve been eating of course, raw meat like everyone
|else. At the time.
|u/DeadInternetTheorist - 7 hours
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|We knew it before we were even humans. That's why our noses make us
|feel sick when they smell death.
|u/LetterheadVarious398 - 7 hours
|
|Exactly. We evolve with pathogens, and senses like taste and smell
|have evolved to signify danger
|u/Hey_Fuck_Tard - 7 hours
|
|> senses like taste and smell have evolved Oh, I was a bit
|worried, I can't smell (unless its crazy strong smell and then
|it's only something is different and not so much a smell, like I
|wouldn't really be able to identify smells.).
|u/Brookenium - 3 hours
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|Ah, well you'd have probably died then
|u/UnsupportiveHope - 6 hours
|
|We’re actually more resilient to it than a lot of animals. It’s been
|speculated that our ancestors first started eating meat as
|scavengers before we learned to hunt. Our stomach acid is actually
|quite acidic compared to most mammals which is a sign of a
|scavenger. We’ve likely just lost a lot of that resilience over the
|last million or so years as we learned to hunt and discovered fire.
|u/had3l - 4 hours
|
|I mean, dry-aged beef is a thing. It's essentially controled
|rotting.
|u/Xarthys - 3 hours
|
|It's possible that animals might be affected negatively by eating body
|parts that have been contaminated with pathogens over days/weeks. It
|might be even possible that there are long-term impact on their
|health, leading to infections or illnesses that may shorten their
|lifespan. However, most animals in the wild probably don't exist long
|enough to ever experience these diet induced shortcomings, because
|they die one way or another. It may not even be a huge surprise if we
|would find several parasites as well as various pathogens inside
|carrion feeders. But as long as they are healthy enough to reproduce,
|they have made it and whatever happens to them after that point is
|just the typical challenges of existing in the wild, under constant
|threat to their lives.
|u/ghost_warlock - 2 hours
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|Not to mention that most animals that routinely eat carrion have
|*intense* digestive juices going on that are likely to melt
|pathogens like butter unless the pathogens are extremophiles
|u/Pafnouti - 2 hours
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|Also many carnivorous species have quite short digestive tracts,
|so the content will be processed and expelled quickly which
|doesn't leave as much time for bacteria to cause problems.
|u/Novel_Towel6125 - 1 hour
|
|Came here to say this! The evolutionary tradeoff with a short
|digestive tract is they don't get quite as much out of the meat
|that they do eat (e.g., they need to eat more meat than us to
|get the same amount of vitamins and calories). But they can eat
|rotten meat and we can't, so I guess it works out for them
|overall.
|u/buffalololer - 1 hour
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|IIRC bear meat is often full of parasites
|u/TyKwanDough - 11 hours
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|That was Fucking depressing and also Interesting
|u/silverB11 - 10 hours
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|Nature's cycle can be harsh, but it plays a crucial role in
|ecosystems.
|u/fakeDEODORANT1483 - 10 hours
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|I think its super cool how they mourn each other.
|u/BlackllMamba - 5 hours
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|When the elephants come by to just bones🥲
|u/seb-xtl - 10 hours
|
|Why depressing?
|u/Lady_Shark11 - 10 hours
|
|Because the elephant died and now it's just a carcass. Same goes for
|every living being on earth - until there is life, one is an
|individual having an identity. But upon death, one loses their
|identity and are just referred to as a 'body' or 'carcass'.
|u/seb-xtl - 10 hours
|
|It makes us understand that life is precious and short at the same
|time. He will have had a good life without poaching and a natural
|death.
|u/Lady_Shark11 - 10 hours
|
|Let's clink our glasses in honour of our respective lives.
|Cheers, man!
|u/cIumsythumbs - 9 hours
|
|L'chaim!
|u/Xarthys - 3 hours
|
|The individal stops to exist, but it continues to exist as another
|iteration of that genetic profile. And its molecules and atoms
|continue to be part of a larger cycle, as building blocks for new
|life. Death is just the beginning.
|u/HacksawJimDGN - 1 hour
|
|I see it completely the opposite. Every life on earth is
|connected. You can't have life without other living things. I
|mean you literally can't eat anything that wasn't once alive.
|There's no such thing as life in isolation as it's all part of one
|system, one interconnected living "thing" that spreads across
|areas and feeds off itself. Things at the top of the food chain
|eat smaller living things, and when they themselves die their body
|is given back to the smaller livings things. Everything remains
|balanced and feeds off itself. In death they give life to other
|things. Nothing is wasted. It's a natural cycle of life and
|death. What ceases to exist in one form nourishes and becomes part
|of something else. It actually makes you think how selfish it is
|for humans to close themselves up in coffins. We should be given
|back to the ecosystem.
|u/shmehh123 - 6 hours
|
|What else did you expect? Its crazy to me we still struggle to
|find ourselves as a part of nature and view nature as brutal. You
|are made of chemical bonds and therefor energy. Life needs energy
|so it feeds on you and converts your chemistry into energy. Its
|pretty simple. We need to stop telling ourselves we're so special
|all the time.
|u/BEAFbetween - 47 minutes
|
|Bro relax. A sentient being with its own life and enjoyments and
|social circles isn't around anymore. That's a sad thing. It's
|also a good thing cos it helps the rest of the environment carry
|on. Doesn't change the fact that it's still sad. This is the
|most 14 year old "ackshually" reddit take I've seen in weeks.
|It's not cool to be emotionally unattached from the world around
|you, it's just weird. Grow up
|u/Palaponel - 4 hours
|
|Man needs to put on the opening scene to The Lion King
|u/Distinct_Ad456 - 10 hours
|
|Vultures are extremely crucial for the ecosystem and overall sanitation
|of the environment.. one of the most misunderstood creatures. They were
|unintentionally posioned in India (due to a drug used to treat
|livestock), which indirectly contributed to the death of nearly 500,000
|people. [Sauce](https://epic.uchicago.in/the-near-extinction-of-indian-
|vultures-led-to-the-death-of-a-half-million-people/#:~:text=Farmers%20ha
|ve%20long%20relied%20on,poisoned%20and%20killed%20the%20birds.)
|u/SHNUUK - 9 hours
|
|I always say natures janitors get a bad rap. They’re doing the
|instinctive jobs and people act like it’s their fault!
|u/PersnicketyYaksha - 8 hours
|
|"The ugly vulture eats the dead, Guiltless of murder’s taint. The
|heron swallows living fish And looks like an ascetic saint."
|~Bhratrhari (translated from Sanskrit by John Brough) NB: I know
|herons are as benign and also play an important ecological role, and
|that this poem was written metaphorically, urging people to look
|beyond appearances— but still a nice little rhyme that celebrates the
|vulture.
|u/GhostChili - 6 hours
|
|Storks nesting in villages are viewed as a symbol of peaceful life,
|but they frequently hunt baby hares in the surrounding fields and
|swallow them whole or bring them back to their nests while the baby
|hare is still alive and crying like a human baby. This is where the
|myth of storks delivering babies came from.
|u/sharpdullard69 - 50 minutes
|
|Mmmm...murderer taint.
|u/adod1 - 8 hours
|
|I remember reading a while ago about a group of people that when they
|die their bodys are chopped up and fed to vultures...and I always
|thought like yeah, that'd be a cool way of getting rid of me when I
|die, screw being buried in the ground and helping out gross ass bugs,
|lemme help out them giant flying creatures instead.
|u/Distinct_Ad456 - 8 hours
|
|The people you're talking about are from the Parsi community
|(Persians who migrated to India due to persecution in Iran). They
|don't bury their dead but move the bodies to "Silent Towers," where
|the bodies slowly decompose and are eaten by vultures... Due to a
|decline in the vulture population...the situation has become
|delirious..
|u/Gobi-Todic - 8 hours
|
|Pretty sure u/adod1 read about Tibetan [sky
|burials](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial) where the
|bodies are actually chopped up beforehand. The Parsi in India just
|place them up high, but initially intact.
|u/space_keeper - 5 hours
|
|I've heard the reasoning that it was cattle given doses of
|diclofenac that killed them. But I also recall speculation
|that the bodies left in the towers were a problem, given that most
|of them are the remains of elderly people who were being treated
|with NSAIDs for arthritis. It's a terrible thing. It might be
|the most logical and environmentally friendly burial practice in
|the world. No wasted space for graves, no energy spent burning
|bodies.
|u/Fideli91 - 6 hours
|
|I believe Radiolab did an episode on this exact situation a while
|back. Really good listen (as are pretty much all of their episodes)
|u/Graspswasps - 3 hours
|
|[Vulture PR Interview](https://youtu.be/dadO5AQTohE) sketch by John
|Finnemore from the highly acclaimed Souvenir Programme
|u/ugh_intensifies - 2 hours
|
|Hey man thanks for sharing this info and source! Really interesting
|read. Much appreciated :D
|u/sharpdullard69 - 50 minutes
|
|Mao did the same with sparrows in China and killed millions of people
|through starvation.
|u/Spider_Monkey_Test - 9 hours
|
|I like how the leopard felt it was beneath it to feed among the
|scavengers
|u/GaryGracias - 1 hour
|
|I like to think that the leopard was friends with the elephant. Its
|face was looking like it was having a “goodbye old friend” kinda
|moment. Then again, I do have the brain of a child 🙃
|u/irongoat2527 - 9 hours
|
|The other elephant showing up again near the end of the time lapse 😢
|u/Magellan-88 - 8 hours
|
|Elephants will continue to visit & pause at this site for years, even
|if the bones are gone. Elephants mourn their dead for a very long
|time.
|u/HesSoZazzy - 7 hours
|
|I haven't visited my grandpa's grave since the 90s. Now I feel like
|shit.
|u/Rigo-lution - 5 hours
|
|Do you remember him in other ways? I've only been to my nana's
|grave once since she died but she used to bake me scones and
|sometimes I'll get one by myself jut to remind me of her. Same
|with my grandad, sometimes I'll buy budwesier (such a shit beer
|haha) and watch a western because he loved it.
|u/Existing365Chocolate - 2 hours
|
|It’s ok, you’re not an elephant
|u/MadBlash - 1 hour
|
|In your defense, you're not an elephant...at least I think you're
|not. If you are, then you should actually be ashamed of yourself
|u/Gh0stMan0nThird - 6 hours
|
|Yeah that shot of [the elephant standing over the
|bones](https://i.imgur.com/njZyiU8.png) makes me feel some kind of
|way.
|u/Cakalacky - 11 hours
|
|Honest question, what do animals contain in their stomach biome that
|allows them to eat rancid, maggot covered meat days and weeks after the
|animal died?
|u/CuriousWanderer567 - 11 hours
|
|Their stomach acid and immune systems are much stronger than ours is.
|Vultures for example in this video have the strongest stomach acid
|(apparently over 100 times stronger than human stomach acid) so they
|rarely get diseases because of how thoroughly they digest their food,
|and along with them and other animals they just evolve to eat that
|kind of stuff because of how long they’ve been doing it.
|u/Cakalacky - 11 hours
|
|Ahh makes perfect sense! Thanks for the answer
|u/meesta_masa - 10 hours
|
|Just don't try to increase the acidity of your digestive juices,
|so you can eat rancid, maggoty flesh like you want to.
|
|u/Cakalacky - 7 hours
|
|So those 5 glasses of hydrochloric acid aren’t gonna help oh….
|u/meesta_masa - 5 hours
|
|Five? 9 9 9 9.
|u/demonovation - 7 hours
|
|Dogs, so I assume hyenas as well, also have a much shorter digestive
|tract than humans, so stuff doesn't stay in them long enough to
|cause problems.
|u/BoutTime22 - 7 hours
|
|I'm pretty sure Hyenas have been known to eat anthrax spores and
|survive.
|u/thekingjelly135444 - 8 hours
|
|They evolve to eat that kind of stuff because of how long they’ve
|been doing it. What I’ve learned is that they’ve been doing it the
|longest so they were allowed to progress/ evolve , right ?
|u/McRedditz - 10 hours
|
|Nature is beautiful and brutal.
|u/CradleRockStyle - 8 hours
|
|Saddest part was how birds shit all over it within just a few hours of
|its death.
|u/3mx2RGybNUPvhL7js - 4 hours
|
|You just watched a video of hyenas gutting a fresh elephant carcass
|and you're concerned about bird poop!
|u/MasterMahanJr - 3 hours
|
|I can excuse the vore, but I draw the line at scat!
|u/Forrestocat - 11 hours
|
|I didn't know I could feel empathy for an elephant so strongly 🥲
|u/DevilishIrv - 10 hours
|
|the circle of life
|u/Powerful-Tonight8648 - 10 hours
|
|How do I sign up to get recycled like this once my time comes?! I’d sign
|a contract and pay some $$ to ensure that my family got peace knowing I
|gave back to Mother Earth.
|u/bashboomer__ - 10 hours
|
|Tibetan sky burial.
|u/wised0nkey - 9 hours
|
|You can look up human composting and green burial. Legal in
|California, Colorado, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and
|Nevada.
|u/justanotheruser46258 - 10 hours
|
|Nice try, I've seen the lion king, I know he was supposed to go to the
|elephant graveyard.
|u/moranya1 - 37 minutes
|
|He was actually the first elephant to go to what would eventually be
|known as the elephant graveyard. An elephant graveyard origin story
|per se.
|u/Sixsix43 - 11 hours
|
|This is so sad. Rest in peace elephant.
|u/CuriousWanderer567 - 11 hours
|
|[Source video](https://youtu.be/FV-d-WoiFzU)
|u/HislovelyDove - 10 hours
|
|Can you imagine the smell??
|u/3mx2RGybNUPvhL7js - 4 hours
|
|Yes. I have not been this hard for years.
|u/xxplosiv - 10 hours
|
|Damn, that WAS very interesting.
|u/fractal_disarray - 9 hours
|
|Is it still unethical to harvest the bull's skull/tusks when all that
|remains, is his skeleton?
|u/NATHAN325 - 8 hours
|
|I was just thinking that. Could this be considered ethical tusk
|"farming"? Or gathering i suppose.
|u/Tooterfish42 - 8 hours
|
|Good luck getting away with the camera watching it
|u/MySilverBurrito - 2 hours
|
|Stare at the camera, thumbs up, point at tusk, thumbs up again, a
|quick nod, and take the tusk.
|u/YourPetPenguin0610 - 6 hours
|
|I don't think it can be considered a "farm", but I suppose the tusks
|are ffa after the elephant's death
|u/Palaponel - 4 hours
|
|Depends on whether you are harvesting them in a way that contributes
|to the persistence of the ivory market and therefore incentivises
|poaching. If you were some dude who found an elephant corpse, took a
|tusk, carved it into a knife handle or something that nobody ever
|really saw, then I think there's probably not anything unethical about
|that. If you are going round harvesting elephant corpses so that you
|can sell ivory on the black market, yes that is unethical.
|u/Blair_Bubbles - 9 hours
|
|I feel silly asking this but in the beginning that yellow square that
|was showing something hanging down from its belly, what was that? (I
|also didn't have the sound on if it was explained sorry!)
|u/Treehouse326 - 9 hours
|
|It was a wound I think. Some other animal probably attacked it and it
|got hurt/got a chunk taken out. The elephant got away but eventually
|the wound gets infected
|u/Palaponel - 4 hours
|
|In the video they explain that he was gored by an older, larger Bull
|elephant, likely one in musth. The only other animals who could
|conceivably hurt an elephant would be a pack of lions, humans, or a
|large rhinoceros. Lions likely wouldn't go after a healthy male
|elephant nor would they leave it standing in this condition, humans
|would shoot it rather than giving it a wound like this, and although
|this type of wound could conceivably be done by a rhino, 9 times out
|of 10 that scenario goes the other way and the rhino gets stomped.
|u/howtospellorange - 7 hours
|
|In the commentary, they explain that it fought with another elephant
|that gored it on the side that's not facing the camera
|u/Tooterfish42 - 8 hours
|
|They're all "damnit I knew something was up when he didn't come down for
|breakfast. let's clown around and rub our buttcheeks on him to make sure
|he's not pretending"
|u/Xtianus21 - 8 hours
|
|Circle of life
|u/thisisfreakinstupid - 10 hours
|
|Very similar to a whalefall. Beautiful and macabre all at once.
|u/churrmander - 7 hours
|
|Nature is all at once beautiful, sad, scary, and fascinating. I wonder
|how different human civilization and the ecosystem would be if we
|returned our own dead to nature instead of filling them with chemicals
|and burying them 6 feet under.
|u/bruhmomentum68419 - 6 hours
|
|It’s fascinating that these supposedly “lesser intelligent” animals have
|developed their own mourning process and stuff. Like there has to be
|something more to them right? How do they even communicate all these
|processes from generation to generation? It’s so mind blowing. It’s sad
|but still very interesting
|u/ParticularUser - 2 hours
|
|I think this is mostly an emotional and instinctual reaction rather
|than a developed process. Yeah, they pass on some behaviors but that's
|mostly trough passively observing their parents and other herd
|members. Kinda like we don't need to be taught to feel sad if our
|friend dies. Funeral rituals vary between cultures, but everyone feels
|sad regardless of culture they live in. I'd imagine it's the same for
|elephants, they just pass on way less culture or rituals.
|u/Stormchaser-904 - 6 hours
|
|Wow... Not gonna lie, as much as I feel bad for the elephant, this is
|what I'd much rather see on animal documentaries. I mean, I don't
|condone animal murder, but I don't wanna see a documentary where animals
|never kill eachother or never bleed, you know? Its just nature. Yet
|every documentary I've seen up until this point never had any true
|nature settings like this, with full on guts and carcass eating. THAT'S
|what nature's really like, im afraid. And I'm sick of never seeing those
|moments captured. I mean what is this, a kid's cartoon? No! Its real
|life! Circle of life! Though I do feel bad for that poor elephant.
|Those guys LITERALLY chewed him to skin in bone in a few days. Poor Elly
|😟 Edit: Wow! Okay... Ngl, I expected a lot of backlash for this
|comment, but thank you! Im glad a lot of people can agree with this.
|u/Turbulent-Bed7950 - 4 hours
|
|Really? I am sure in most Attenborough documentaries something gets
|eaten.
|u/shootershooter - 10 hours
|
|This made me big sad
|u/PiratedStuffEnjoyer - 7 hours
|
|this vid will only get better if a british grandpa is narrating it.
|u/Ok_Escape_1367 - 10 hours
|
|Amazing
|u/__moe___ - 10 hours
|
|That was legit cool
|u/dutadoet - 7 hours
|
|I wonder why instead of the fresh-still alive vultures flocking around,
|the hyenas still go for the rotting elephant carcass?
|u/Spiritofthehero16 - 5 hours
|
|Specialized food sources, they evolved to fill a role in an
|environment, losing abilities to do some things and becoming adept at
|specific skills. Hyenas jaws are incredibly powerful, breaking open
|the body begins the process for everyone else, releasing the scent
|helps tell others where the food is. Nothing nearby can tear into
|elephant hide like this. Allowing the microbes to eat, nutrition
|sinks into soil, nutritional soil grows good grass that future
|elephants eat.
|u/dutadoet - 4 hours
|
|So evolution made them lost the appetite for vultures?
|u/supervegeta101 - 7 hours
|
|Do the bones get broken down by fungi or something the way whale bones
|do in a whale fall?
|u/ElbowWavingOversight - 3 hours
|
|Bone is made up of lots of tiny crystals of calcium minerals that are
|held rigidly together with organic material (collagen). The organic
|part of the bone is broken down by microbes and fungi, yes - unless
|some other animal eats the bones first. Once the organic material
|holding the bone together is gone, the remaining mineral isn't
|especially strong. If left exposed to the elements, the calcium
|minerals will eventually be chemically and physically broken down and
|returned to the Earth.
|u/Few_Philosopher2039 - 5 hours
|
|I personally do not know, but hyenas can eat and digest bone as well,
|so they may eat some to get at the nutrients in the marrow. Over time
|sand blown by the wind and rain may erode the bone as well and break
|down minerals for the soil.
|u/Biryani_is_loml - 5 hours
|
|The elephant coming at the end :(
|u/Kaiszer - 5 hours
|
|Pffft, so if an elephant does it, it's "interesting and important" but
|if I start body mounting a corpse they call the cops...
|u/moranya1 - 33 minutes
|
|Reminds me of a joke I heard once. "I bake a cake once, yet nobody
|calls me a baker. I play golf once, yet nobody calls me a golfer. But
|I fuck a goat ONCE and....."
|u/Spacerock7777 - 4 hours
|
|Another argument against trophy hunting, the whole ecosystem loses out
|on this when they remove all the old animals.
|u/less_concerned - 3 hours
|
|"Aw man did you hear? Jeff is dead" "What? That's terrible! We should
|go pay our respects" *humps and teabags his corpse*
|u/Substantial_Pin3750 - 3 hours
|
|The grieving process by the elephant herd was quite incredible to watch.
|u/prosdod - 3 hours
|
|Vultures really do give off the energy of someone who waits in line to
|eat rotten meat. I love them. NPC ass birds
|u/2020mademejoinreddit - 2 hours
|
|Thank you young elephant.
|u/CancerFaceEww - 2 hours
|
|Interesting video but this constant messaging every single time of how
|humans are pieces of shit is fatiguing. Can I just watch something
|educational without getting pummeled over climate change or habitat loss
|or some other existential threat narrative? Nat Geo is getting really
|bad for this especially. It's OK to educate without constantly bemoaning
|the 'Pillars of Doom'.
|u/Themathemagicians - 1 hour
|
|The amount of birdpoop on it when it's just died; that's already
|scavengerbirds trying to eat it but cannot get throgh its thick hide
|yet.
|u/ttouristta - 1 hour
|
|I watched a nearly 7 minutes video in Reddit
|u/PRRZ70 - 10 hours
|
|Nature continues to show its brutality. It's truly incredible to
|witness. I truly hope vultures strive better in the natural world.
|u/lethimgo_toronto - 10 hours
|
|I thought there would be more bugs.
|u/maleijn - 10 hours
|
|Food chain, Secondary Consumers🦊 Tertiary Consumers 🦅
|"The food chain is not just a link; it's the backbone of our existence."
|- Unknown
|u/kcchiefscooper - 10 hours
|
|yea. that's pretty much what i assumed, didn't need to watch that. poor
|thing. notice another elephant came back to see the skeleton at the
|end. that was even more sad
|u/lucassuave15 - 9 hours
|
|Damn... Poor guy got tea bagged by his own team mates 😞
|u/appletinicyclone - 10 hours
|
|Fascinating and devestating in equal measure
|u/Dependent-Mix-3885 - 9 hours
|
|Damn nature is wild.
|u/alwaysabratemily - 9 hours
|
|Depressing yet interesting. You lose life to give life ✨
|u/Meanolemommy - 9 hours
|
|Amazing
|u/slifm - 9 hours
|
|Saved
|u/Is_2303 - 9 hours
|
|Save many animals from 1 death
|u/AndrewWhite97 - 8 hours
|
|My Grandma loved elephants. I continue that love.
|u/SealedRoute - 7 hours
|
|I want a sky burial
|u/sarahjanepotter - 7 hours
|
|Circle of life
|u/Adrift_chillin - 7 hours
|
|Tuff
|u/TJLaserShepard - 7 hours
|
|Why don't they eat the nose? Or did I miss it?
|u/Opposite-Return7228 - 6 hours
|
|Fucking fascinating
|u/ShitPostPerfected - 6 hours
|
|Damn, that was interesting.
|u/accountfornormality - 6 hours
|
|one of the best things i have seen on reddit. thank you
|u/Aggressive_Peanut924 - 5 hours
|
|God I miss videos and TV like this. No influencers, no stupid music
|altering the experience, just images and neutrally delivered information
|u/ronaldprins - 5 hours
|
|Also chocked fellow elephants show up 5 days later. Only finding the
|bones and some left over meat.
|u/OldWar1111 - 5 hours
|
|I love Elephants. Intelleligent, compassionate, careful with their
|strength. There is a reason they are such a big part of our Hindu Indian
|culture.
|u/Tramonto83 - 5 hours
|
|Day 0: get shat on by birds, apparently
|u/Lost_Lifeguard_7780 - 5 hours
|
|is there a sub for educational videos of animals like this cause this
|stuff is so cool.
|u/kin4212 - 4 hours
|
|Yea I never thought of my body as food before this. Nature is
|authoritarian and I have a strong desire to resist. Humans could be
|the last life form on earth with the potential to do so. If there is
|a god I wonder if that's the plan of this experiment, to cook until
|they found a winner.
|u/designgoddess - 5 hours
|
|I had to nope out.
|u/yehetbk - 4 hours
|
|What was responsible for eating carcass at the time of dinosaurs?
|u/sharpdullard69 - 49 minutes
|
|Velocihyeanas.
|u/Moonting41 - 4 hours
|
|Damn, I didn't even notice that this was about 6 mins long. Everything
|was just so fascinating from the mourning to the feeding of scavengers
|Also shows how horizontal videos will always be the best medium
|u/Pope_GonZo - 4 hours
|
|Who ended up getting the tusks?
|u/raibrans - 4 hours
|
|So an elephant will feed one hyena and a billions vultures. Got it.
|u/fuertepqek - 3 hours
|
|Looks like someone’s attention span didn’t make it to the end…
|u/raibrans - 3 hours
|
|I posted my comment and then watched the end haha but decided to
|leave my comment.
|u/Resolutechampion - 4 hours
|
|It felt like a truck loaded with a lot of food or supplies got in an
|accident and people just coming and taking the advantage
|u/Legitimate_Sort_6116 - 4 hours
|
|Such a display of emotions!
|u/Duperdankgoblin - 4 hours
|
|It's the ciiiiircle oof liiiife...
|u/DaIubhasa - 3 hours
|
|**Thanks for sharing**
|u/MacMillian187 - 3 hours
|
|Corpses cannot die. Living elephants can
|u/GloomyImagination365 - 3 hours
|
|Wow that buffet was a hit
|u/Rxc2000 - 3 hours
|
|Damn that’s interesting
|u/LaconicSuffering - 3 hours
|
|A 100 years ago those tusks would be 2 meters long instead.
|u/ShySharer - 2 hours
|
|Day shift and night shift sure don't fuck about
|u/Rubicon208 - 2 hours
|
|Yo this is so fascinating
|u/BaronGreenback75 - 2 hours
|
|I’m reminded of the BBC documentary that showed what happens to a whale
|carcass on the sea bed.
|u/CustardCarpet - 2 hours
|
|The audio on this is terrible!
|u/TheAgaveworm - 2 hours
|
|Incredible. At 30 secs to go, you see other Elephants. Is this
|coincidental or are they still mourning? Amazing.
|u/funelite - 2 hours
|
|I find it very interesting, that the trunk is the last thing to go.
|Isn't it pure muscle? Should be one of the best parts.
|u/SomeGuyInShanghai - 2 hours
|
|They can have my carcass too.
|u/sachi9999 - 1 hour
|
|Why didn't they help it 😔
|u/ElegantDollCharm - 1 hour
|
|**Oh, my God! I read somewhere that elephants bury other elephants'
|corpses.**
|u/Nearby-Ad-1067 - 1 hour
|
|That's why death is sad but purposeful a nessicary continuation the the
|cycle of life that elephant passed away but made food for so many not
|just hyenas and vultures but many insects and plants as well death is
|sad but it's a push for growth from others that's why I've always loved
|nature it's such a perfect cycle that I sometimes feel we are far to
|seprated from Also, who else is happy to see a video without that
|constant annoying ai narration
|u/avernus675 - 1 hour
|
|"His name was Robert Paulson."
|u/Garlic-Cheese-Chips - 1 hour
|
|I know wild animals only eat for survival, not pleasure, but I wonder do
|they have trouble forcing down rotten, rancid flesh.
|u/Basket_Both - 1 hour
|
|Fascinating
|u/sharpdullard69 - 55 minutes
|
|I wonder what elephant tastes like.
|u/AttemptedReplacement - 54 minutes
|
|Sad but also really cool how nature works and nothing is wasted
|u/Johnishere02 - 43 minutes
|
|The vultures waiting in line behind the hyena is so funny to me
|u/moranya1 - 41 minutes
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|How can a hyena literally crawl inside of an elephant, eat some of it,
|crawl out and STILL be cleaner than I am when I eat chicken wings???
|u/boostedpoints - 36 minutes
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|Life and Nature is just a beautiful cycle. Sigh and then there’s…us…. 😐
|u/Hausgod29 - 21 minutes
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|I wonder about that elephant at the end. Was that a mourner come to pay
|respects or maybe the very one that killed it?
|u/emberxyz - 15 minutes
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|how come the hyenas don't just eat the vultures?
|u/4bidden112 - 2 minutes
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|Bunch of vultures!
|u/RedditIsPointlesss - 6 hours
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|If an animal dies, it's a carcass, not a corpse
|u/Palaponel - 4 hours
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|Just so you are aware: buying ivory from the black market from someone
|who tells you it was harvested from a naturally-dead elephant is still
|unethical. Doing this would be incentivising poachers to go kill
|elephants and then lie about how they got the ivory.
|u/LifeShouldNoTExist - 8 hours
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|Did the same happen to God?
|u/Xcellion - 8 hours
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|Are we sure the elephants in the beginning were mourning? They looked
|like they were tea bagging the shit covered corpse to me 🤣🤣
|u/allJustThoughts - 8 hours
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|Generally it is burnet by forest department these days
|u/matt_vt - 6 hours
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|TAKE MY BODY TO ARBYS
|u/finallychangedmyname - 4 hours
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|K
|u/Gaz_209 - 6 hours
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|What the ANC has done to South Africa 👎
|u/Suspicious-Ebb9490 - 7 hours
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|Are the elephants having sex with the dead one ?
|u/Spiritofthehero16 - 5 hours
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|No it's a mourning behavior, like a mother hugging her child.
|Elephants are extremely socially attached.
|u/3mx2RGybNUPvhL7js - 4 hours
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|Tricky, but I did manage to masturbate to this video and finish by Day
|4.
|u/brihamedit - 10 hours
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|The mourning part was hilarious right. Mourning process is like they are
|rubbing from all angles to remind themselves that their buddy is dead.
|Imagine they have sensors all around and they want to cognize the dead
|buddy scenario from all angles for a more continuous steady awareness
|for how deeply they were connected to the dead one. Do they do the same
|ritual for unfamiliar elephants? However the body mounting and back foot
|tapping was hilarious
|u/Streggling - 5 hours
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|If elephucks are so important to the ego system then why the fucc are
|other continents getting by just fine without them? I shall tell you
|why, and I shall do so vehemently: it is because elephunks are useless.
|We could scour them from the surface of this adequate planet and not a
|thing shall change. Not a blade of grass out of balance—what is destined
|shall be. Who are we to say that massacring elephont-kind would be such
|an injury to mother earth? Why should it be that man should lose an
|interest in the elephint's blood? Poach those mofos into the envelope of
|extiction just to see if this world can function without them. That is
|the scientific method: to annihilate until only that which is critical
|to human habitation remains upon the surface of this purported oblate
|spheroid.
|u/Pope_GonZo - 4 hours
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|Same could & should be said about humans tbh
|u/BEAFbetween - 51 minutes
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|"Anything which isn't useful specifically and directly to human
|civilisation in a way that I understand it should be massacred" there
|fixed it for you You're making an excellent argument for your own
|murder there friend
|u/shmediumbannana - 10 hours
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|Gross
|u/BEAFbetween - 50 minutes
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|You watched a video with the words "elephant corpse after it dies" in
|the title, tf did you expect lol
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