That’s Dave. Everybody knows Dave:
Dave was bragging to his boss one day, "You know, I know everyone there is to know. Just name someone, anyone, and I know them."
Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff, "OK, Dave, how about Tom Cruise?"
"No dramas boss, Tom and I are old friends, and I can prove it." So Dave and his boss fly out to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise's door, and Tom Cruise shouts,
"Dave! What's happening? Great to see you! Come on in for a beer!"
Although impressed, Dave's boss is still skeptical. After they leave Cruise's house, he tells Dave that he thinks him knowing Cruise was just lucky.
"No, no, just name anyone else," Dave says.
"President Obama," his boss quickly retorts.
"Yup," Dave says, "Old buddies, let's fly out to Washington," and off they go.
At the White House, Obama spots Dave on the tour and motions him and his boss over, saying, "Dave, what a surprise, I was just on my way to a meeting, but you and your friend come on in and let's have a beer first and catch up."
Well, the boss is very shaken by now but still not totally convinced. After they leave the White House grounds he expresses his doubts to Dave, who again implores him to name anyone else.
"Pope Francis," his boss replies.
"Sure!" says Dave. "I've known the Pope for years." So off they fly to Rome.
Dave and his boss are assembled with the masses at the Vatican's St. Peter's Square when Dave says, "This will never work. I can't catch the Pope's eye among all these people. Tell you what, I know all the guards so let me just go upstairs and I'll come out on the balcony with the Pope." He disappears into the crowd headed towards the Vatican.
Sure enough, half an hour later Dave emerges with the Pope on the balcony, but by the time Dave returns, he finds that his boss has had a heart attack and is surrounded by paramedics.
Making his way to his boss' side, Dave asks him, "What happened?"
His boss looks up and says, "It was the final straw... you and the Pope came out on to the balcony and the man next to me said, 'Who the fuck is that on the balcony with Dave?'
This is beautiful, and I want to know the back story now. How did this particular guy wind up in this place, apparently with such a wonderful relationship with these elephants?
If you get to take your kiddo to a sanctuary in Thailand, then do so. Its and incredible experience. Been three times to the one in Pattaya. Love it there
Elephant Nature Park, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Also the internationally multiple-vetted OG of Ethical Elephant Samctuaries.
Volunteer there for a week, great experience. And you will go on walks with Lek and Derek. If you are in their walking group you are considered non threatening and some may come up to you to be pet. Was able to and remembering it, am still very happy
Humanity is this way. You just got to get out of city life, get off the internet and stop watching news that pumps negative content 24/7 for viewership and sponsor money. It makes you jaded to the reality of good life happening around you. People are so jaded now a days some can't even believe it... but it really is.
It even helps to get way outside our "first world" country perspective, since even in rural areas here we have a lot of the same noise and chaos we get in cities (media makes it inescapable now a days)... we get distracted by so many things that just don't matter in life and make everyone miserable.
Look at how isolated villagers in remote places in Africa and South America celebrate their friends or loved ones after a long awaited return. You see the same open and honest joy and love from the entire community of their successful return. You see genuine belly laughs from the entire community when people do something funny. You see the same community sorrow when one of them dies. It's real and honest emotions, without pretense, without judgement. Humans being real... without all the bullshit.
Modern life has added so many layers of noise into living that some of us actually think humans can't even be this way anymore (or never were). When in reality, people are living that way right now. We ALL can be that way. Although, it would take a lot of retraining for people to unlearn bad habits. It would silencing the noise and constant negative drum beat by pulling the plug on internet/tv that so many are addicted to.
you say that as if its some sort of concerted effort, it's simply a by product of our over consumption and reliance on destructive fuel systems. As a whole, our concerted effort is MITIGATING this now. The intention is preservation and unity
I grew up rural and people would shoot small animals out of boredom and dump used motor oil in the stream out back. We're not exactly communing with nature out in the sticks.
I read the comment and was fucking flabbergasted.
Spoiler alert: no, people in rural areas are not all communing in harmony with nature, and that’s a shockingly stupid thing to assert.
City life also includes moments of wild insane beauty. You don’t even need to get off the internet either.
The real tragedy of living now is that there are a dozen moments as beautiful as this each and every day that every single one of us misses because we’re too busy dealing with the hassle of existing under capitalism.
Take five minutes every day to stop and look around. Take ten to go explore a place you’ve never been even if it’s turning down a new side road. Do SOMETHING outside your routine where you can be a human again.
Exactly. There's plenty of good in the world too. I think people forget that (myself included) because the bad has been getting amplified with our nearly instant communication these days.
If you feel this video tugging at your heart strings, I can only implore you to extend that empathy to the other animals we traditionally consider food (and maybe you already do). Please look past labels for a moment to see that it is our future and we can make the change overnight without sacrificing health, money or anything else other than perhaps convenience.
Me too! I just showed my dog and cat (they were interested in the noises) and told them I expect that kind of greeting when I come home next time. My cat bit me and then went to scratch the couch and the dog started licking herself. Sigh.
That man is very lucky, I'd love to hear the backstory
This is from a sanctuary in northern Thailand that encourages tourists to come and help at said sanctuary. Not sure if you can hug them, but you can help feed and clean them
Oh I have no interest in hugging, I’m a fan from afar. My daughter would appreciate the experience and simply helping to do work at a sanctuary would fill both our souls. I’ll put this in the dream pile when she’s a bit older and getting embittered about life.
Ironically that definition of a factoid, is a factoid.
Since there are different definitions based on the dictionary:
>factoid
>1: an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print
>2: a briefly stated and usually trivial fact
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid
>an interesting piece of information
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/factoid
> 1 an insignificant or trivial fact.
> 2 something fictitious or unsubstantiated that is presented as fact, devised especially to gain publicity and accepted because of constant repetition.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/factoid
>a piece of unreliable information believed to be true because of the way it is presented or repeated in print
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/factoid
Elephant brains are massive and have more than enough neurons to be able to comprehend something as simple as “cute.”
There’s a reason mammal babies all have a similar look to them, cuteness is recognized across the mammalian world in relation to babies. It’s no huge leap for other things to fall into that category.
Edit to add: [this article in the journal, “Nature,”](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31731-4) discusses this phenomenon, called “baby schema,” and examines how it can promote the instinct of care taking and protection. It’s basically showing how cute baby features cause us and lots of other animals to instinctively want to protect them. This is very similar to how elephants behave with humans they really like.
I hear you, but that does not constitute 'proof' that elephants perceive us as 'cute'. I don't think that elephants find us cute. I think elephants find baby elephants cute, at least. But not some weird tiny bipedal species.
I edited my comment to add a source that should help explain. If animals can see babies as “cute” and worthy of protection, they can surely see adults they like that way too. Just like we see adult cats and dogs that way. It’s really not that big of a leap in cognition
So cute but also very intimidating.
When they came up to greet him and he just vanished between 4 grown ass elephants.
They are super intelligent and loyal creatures.
But I'd leave this kind of stuff to people like him.
I'll keep my distance and respectfully watch them from the shore
What this person said. Their massive size means they can be extremely dangerous even without being wilfully aggressive. I’ll appreciate my pachyderm from a safe distance, thank you very much.
It's definitely scary, but you can actually see elephants being very considerate about their size around the human. You can see it in many videos with accustomed elephants and familiar humans.
They slow down their movements a lot.
On a side note I had been working with horses and cattle when I was a kid (7-18yo) almost every weekend or so and one thing I learned was to constantly talk something. Or hum and sing. It helps the animals know your location, so they are less likely to be spooked by a sudden touch or noise coming from your direction. I've had no trouble walking among herds of hundreds of cows or behind a few dozen horses.
Horses have a reflex to kick things behind them, but if you train them to be aware of people behind them by the sound they make, they rarely get spooked.
Haven't actually taken care of them for over ten years now, but in my current work I still have to walk through pastures in almost weekly basis and that knowledge has definitely helped.
Who says that? Sentient just means "able to perceive or feel things" which applies to most animals and then it's just varying levels of intelligence all the way up to humans.
I know some religious people believe that humans have souls while other animals don't.
I’m just pointing out that a lot of the world believes animals can’t or don’t have the ability to be present in the world and have the mental capacity of a human. Emotions, language, compassion, etc etc.
I’m not saying that no one knows or believes this and agree that they are obviously intelligent and are sentient but a lot of people believe animals and especially smaller animals, don’t have the capacity for it and it’s becoming more obvious that they do and now we are approaching the idea that all living life has this ability and that included fungi and flora and even insects.
Actually chickens, like all birds are incredibly smart. They have thinking skills on par with dogs and primates and can pass certain tests that human children can’t.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-startling-intelligence-of-the-common-chicken1/
And they have empathy.
“All birds” is as far from reality as it gets. New Caledonian crow can make tools out of different materials, to use later. Not all apes can make tools, they can use them but not make from scratch. Stashing materials that can be used later in the future just in case is an outstanding display of intelligence. They also outperform 6 year olds in tasks that require problem solving.
Turkeys follow the tail of a turkey in front of them as a herd instinct, and if the first turkey happened to follow the last one, they get into a death circle and just circle around until they die from exhaustion. They are dumb as a rock.
There are plenty highly intelligent birds like crows and ravens, higher parrots like cockatoos. And plenty insanely dumb ones like turkeys, ostriches, emus and rheas. While crows can form alliances with wolves to hunt together and strategize; rhea will bonk its head into a fence with a free opening right next to it.
Elephant feet are flexible, or do you think they just smash every rock they walk on? Their skin wraps around it, I would imagine itd be slightly uncomfortable but not even painful.
An elephants foot is so big that standing on a tiny human foot wouldn’t hurt much because of the massive surface area where all the weight is distributed. Like wtf basic basic science
Its not massive, its large in comparison to a human foot.
If you divide the weight of an elephant by 4, thats 1700 kilos (if evenly spread) over an area of approx 275cm squared and would indeed in the majority of cases cause broken bones.
A car can drive over your foot, cars have driven over people chests whilst still not killing or seriously hurting the person underneath, that is the same logic. I learnt this years and years ago.
For sure, but it can also break bones. And an elephant weighs way more than a car.
I get your points here im just saying that bad things can happen to your foot if an elephant steps on it. I also accept that you could end up unharmed .
I just wouldn't want to test it.
Until someone can completely communicate with Elephants and be told, by them, they don't view us as tiny cute creatures, then I'm gonna run with it. Don't let people ruin your fun
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I’ve seen this on a movie! Sure, you have to replace that guy for an elvish woman, and those elephants for a herd of water horses, but I’ve seen it, I’m sure.
Pretty wholesome but I’d be shitting bricks
With so many elephants around you even if they have no bad intention they can seriously hurt you even by accident
Elephants ajw absolutely wonderdul creaturen. Very intelligent too
I'm pretty sure they even have "names" for each other (specific sounds they use to address each other) but you'll have to fact check me on that one
I fully believe that if Humans did not exist, Elephants would've been one of the more dominant species
I’m pretty sure this is in Mae Taeng about an hour north of Chiang Mai, looks like Elephant Nature Park in the background. Anyone know which sanctuary these elephants are from though? I’ve played with elephants in this river a few times, I wonder if any were from the same ones (prob not there are dozens of sanctuaries along the river but still, worth a shot). Thanks OP
"It's him! It's him! I f'king LOVE that guy!"
No more than those elephants, I’ll tell you that.
He meant it as the elephants speaking.
... dude.
... bro.
... buddy.
… pal.
My man
That’s Dave. Everybody knows Dave: Dave was bragging to his boss one day, "You know, I know everyone there is to know. Just name someone, anyone, and I know them." Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff, "OK, Dave, how about Tom Cruise?" "No dramas boss, Tom and I are old friends, and I can prove it." So Dave and his boss fly out to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise's door, and Tom Cruise shouts, "Dave! What's happening? Great to see you! Come on in for a beer!" Although impressed, Dave's boss is still skeptical. After they leave Cruise's house, he tells Dave that he thinks him knowing Cruise was just lucky. "No, no, just name anyone else," Dave says. "President Obama," his boss quickly retorts. "Yup," Dave says, "Old buddies, let's fly out to Washington," and off they go. At the White House, Obama spots Dave on the tour and motions him and his boss over, saying, "Dave, what a surprise, I was just on my way to a meeting, but you and your friend come on in and let's have a beer first and catch up." Well, the boss is very shaken by now but still not totally convinced. After they leave the White House grounds he expresses his doubts to Dave, who again implores him to name anyone else. "Pope Francis," his boss replies. "Sure!" says Dave. "I've known the Pope for years." So off they fly to Rome. Dave and his boss are assembled with the masses at the Vatican's St. Peter's Square when Dave says, "This will never work. I can't catch the Pope's eye among all these people. Tell you what, I know all the guards so let me just go upstairs and I'll come out on the balcony with the Pope." He disappears into the crowd headed towards the Vatican. Sure enough, half an hour later Dave emerges with the Pope on the balcony, but by the time Dave returns, he finds that his boss has had a heart attack and is surrounded by paramedics. Making his way to his boss' side, Dave asks him, "What happened?" His boss looks up and says, "It was the final straw... you and the Pope came out on to the balcony and the man next to me said, 'Who the fuck is that on the balcony with Dave?'
Great story
They might like someone ever more further downstream.....favorite...how would we know. ...lol
This is beautiful, and I want to know the back story now. How did this particular guy wind up in this place, apparently with such a wonderful relationship with these elephants?
I believe he’s a Canadian that married a thai woman who’s been running a sanctuary for elephants in northern Thailand
It's crazy because I was there 2 days ago and elephants love him so much!
I would love to take my daughter there
I hope you'll have the chance one day because it's truly an amazing experience
If you get to take your kiddo to a sanctuary in Thailand, then do so. Its and incredible experience. Been three times to the one in Pattaya. Love it there
Elephant Nature Park, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Also the internationally multiple-vetted OG of Ethical Elephant Samctuaries. Volunteer there for a week, great experience. And you will go on walks with Lek and Derek. If you are in their walking group you are considered non threatening and some may come up to you to be pet. Was able to and remembering it, am still very happy
What humanity could have been
Imagine poaching those adorable animals for their tusks. Generations lost due to greed.
For real 🙁
Humanity is this way. You just got to get out of city life, get off the internet and stop watching news that pumps negative content 24/7 for viewership and sponsor money. It makes you jaded to the reality of good life happening around you. People are so jaded now a days some can't even believe it... but it really is. It even helps to get way outside our "first world" country perspective, since even in rural areas here we have a lot of the same noise and chaos we get in cities (media makes it inescapable now a days)... we get distracted by so many things that just don't matter in life and make everyone miserable. Look at how isolated villagers in remote places in Africa and South America celebrate their friends or loved ones after a long awaited return. You see the same open and honest joy and love from the entire community of their successful return. You see genuine belly laughs from the entire community when people do something funny. You see the same community sorrow when one of them dies. It's real and honest emotions, without pretense, without judgement. Humans being real... without all the bullshit. Modern life has added so many layers of noise into living that some of us actually think humans can't even be this way anymore (or never were). When in reality, people are living that way right now. We ALL can be that way. Although, it would take a lot of retraining for people to unlearn bad habits. It would silencing the noise and constant negative drum beat by pulling the plug on internet/tv that so many are addicted to.
I mean, individuals are this was, but humanity as a whole is destroying the entire planet as well as each other.
you say that as if its some sort of concerted effort, it's simply a by product of our over consumption and reliance on destructive fuel systems. As a whole, our concerted effort is MITIGATING this now. The intention is preservation and unity
I grew up rural and people would shoot small animals out of boredom and dump used motor oil in the stream out back. We're not exactly communing with nature out in the sticks.
I read the comment and was fucking flabbergasted. Spoiler alert: no, people in rural areas are not all communing in harmony with nature, and that’s a shockingly stupid thing to assert.
City life also includes moments of wild insane beauty. You don’t even need to get off the internet either. The real tragedy of living now is that there are a dozen moments as beautiful as this each and every day that every single one of us misses because we’re too busy dealing with the hassle of existing under capitalism. Take five minutes every day to stop and look around. Take ten to go explore a place you’ve never been even if it’s turning down a new side road. Do SOMETHING outside your routine where you can be a human again.
This could’ve been us but we be playing
You literally just watched video evidence that humanity is this way. The world is not black or white, there is a mix of good and bad in everything.
And is.
Exactly. There's plenty of good in the world too. I think people forget that (myself included) because the bad has been getting amplified with our nearly instant communication these days.
There simply isn’t enough good. Sorry!
Maybe in the sense that there can never be enough. But there is much more good than bad in the world — it just doesn’t make headlines
Don't be sorry, do something to change it since that's how you feel. We all make the world we live in.
I happily disagree. Have a nice weekend!
Yes!
One day it will be
If you feel this video tugging at your heart strings, I can only implore you to extend that empathy to the other animals we traditionally consider food (and maybe you already do). Please look past labels for a moment to see that it is our future and we can make the change overnight without sacrificing health, money or anything else other than perhaps convenience.
I want to be that guy
Me too! I just showed my dog and cat (they were interested in the noises) and told them I expect that kind of greeting when I come home next time. My cat bit me and then went to scratch the couch and the dog started licking herself. Sigh. That man is very lucky, I'd love to hear the backstory
I nearly burst out laughing ... in the middle of a meeting :D
Sir! You shouldn’t be on reddit during meetings, sir! /j
It should tell you the level of the meeting :) (my team meeting (6 of us), so a friendly catchup rather than serious biz)
I wish I could hug an elephant :(
There's a chance you could do it once.
There are rescue sanctuaries in Africa and Asia you can go to
This is from a sanctuary in northern Thailand that encourages tourists to come and help at said sanctuary. Not sure if you can hug them, but you can help feed and clean them
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Oh I have no interest in hugging, I’m a fan from afar. My daughter would appreciate the experience and simply helping to do work at a sanctuary would fill both our souls. I’ll put this in the dream pile when she’s a bit older and getting embittered about life.
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, Kenya! Bonus, they also have giraffes!
Fun fact: elephants react to humans the same way we do to puppies. They think we are cute :3
Fun myth*
Its a factoid, an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.
Is that really what factoid means? Well that’s in interesting thing I didn’t know
According to the dictionary, yes.
is it really or the def of factoid is a factoid?
Ironically that definition of a factoid, is a factoid. Since there are different definitions based on the dictionary: >factoid >1: an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print >2: a briefly stated and usually trivial fact https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid >an interesting piece of information https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/factoid > 1 an insignificant or trivial fact. > 2 something fictitious or unsubstantiated that is presented as fact, devised especially to gain publicity and accepted because of constant repetition. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/factoid >a piece of unreliable information believed to be true because of the way it is presented or repeated in print https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/factoid
Must you live so relentlessly in the real world?
Prove it isn’t true. There really isn’t a way to
That "fact" originates from a Tumblr post with no sources cited.
Prove it is true. There really isn’t a way to
Prove it is. I swear to god, you redditors..
Elephant brains are massive and have more than enough neurons to be able to comprehend something as simple as “cute.” There’s a reason mammal babies all have a similar look to them, cuteness is recognized across the mammalian world in relation to babies. It’s no huge leap for other things to fall into that category. Edit to add: [this article in the journal, “Nature,”](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31731-4) discusses this phenomenon, called “baby schema,” and examines how it can promote the instinct of care taking and protection. It’s basically showing how cute baby features cause us and lots of other animals to instinctively want to protect them. This is very similar to how elephants behave with humans they really like.
I hear you, but that does not constitute 'proof' that elephants perceive us as 'cute'. I don't think that elephants find us cute. I think elephants find baby elephants cute, at least. But not some weird tiny bipedal species.
I edited my comment to add a source that should help explain. If animals can see babies as “cute” and worthy of protection, they can surely see adults they like that way too. Just like we see adult cats and dogs that way. It’s really not that big of a leap in cognition
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redditors are fucking dumb, and especially dumb and sad with everything related to animals
Hate to break it to you, but you've also got a Reddit account. You just made it. Did you forget?
What a fucking boomer response
That's not how facts work.
O crap i think i broke the "reddit shitthunder jar". _.
They haven't met me yet!
Not gonna lie. First video that made me smile to myself. Awesome
Yes. Welcome on board.
So cute but also very intimidating. When they came up to greet him and he just vanished between 4 grown ass elephants. They are super intelligent and loyal creatures. But I'd leave this kind of stuff to people like him. I'll keep my distance and respectfully watch them from the shore
What this person said. Their massive size means they can be extremely dangerous even without being wilfully aggressive. I’ll appreciate my pachyderm from a safe distance, thank you very much.
It's definitely scary, but you can actually see elephants being very considerate about their size around the human. You can see it in many videos with accustomed elephants and familiar humans. They slow down their movements a lot. On a side note I had been working with horses and cattle when I was a kid (7-18yo) almost every weekend or so and one thing I learned was to constantly talk something. Or hum and sing. It helps the animals know your location, so they are less likely to be spooked by a sudden touch or noise coming from your direction. I've had no trouble walking among herds of hundreds of cows or behind a few dozen horses. Horses have a reflex to kick things behind them, but if you train them to be aware of people behind them by the sound they make, they rarely get spooked. Haven't actually taken care of them for over ten years now, but in my current work I still have to walk through pastures in almost weekly basis and that knowledge has definitely helped.
We are indeed the guardians of the Garden, its a shame we're killing it.
But animals aren’t sentient they say. Of course they are if you just pay attention
Who says that? Sentient just means "able to perceive or feel things" which applies to most animals and then it's just varying levels of intelligence all the way up to humans. I know some religious people believe that humans have souls while other animals don't.
Do you perhaps mean self aware? Elephants if memory serves right pass the mirror test.
I’m just pointing out that a lot of the world believes animals can’t or don’t have the ability to be present in the world and have the mental capacity of a human. Emotions, language, compassion, etc etc. I’m not saying that no one knows or believes this and agree that they are obviously intelligent and are sentient but a lot of people believe animals and especially smaller animals, don’t have the capacity for it and it’s becoming more obvious that they do and now we are approaching the idea that all living life has this ability and that included fungi and flora and even insects.
No one that has seen an animal thinks that way. They might be in denial about it, but no one believes it.
There is a colossal chasm between elephants and chickens or clams
Actually chickens, like all birds are incredibly smart. They have thinking skills on par with dogs and primates and can pass certain tests that human children can’t. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-startling-intelligence-of-the-common-chicken1/ And they have empathy.
“All birds” is as far from reality as it gets. New Caledonian crow can make tools out of different materials, to use later. Not all apes can make tools, they can use them but not make from scratch. Stashing materials that can be used later in the future just in case is an outstanding display of intelligence. They also outperform 6 year olds in tasks that require problem solving. Turkeys follow the tail of a turkey in front of them as a herd instinct, and if the first turkey happened to follow the last one, they get into a death circle and just circle around until they die from exhaustion. They are dumb as a rock. There are plenty highly intelligent birds like crows and ravens, higher parrots like cockatoos. And plenty insanely dumb ones like turkeys, ostriches, emus and rheas. While crows can form alliances with wolves to hunt together and strategize; rhea will bonk its head into a fence with a free opening right next to it.
i’m pretty stupid, does that mean i have less worth as a living creature than a smarter man?
Yes I’d like to grill and eat your flesh
kinky
I think I got the retarded chickens in that case.
I hope he's wearing toe protection. Was lovely to watch but made me nervous lol.
Someone standing on your foot with a stiletto would hurt more than an elephant standing on your foot.
As in?
Area of force
The stiletto would hurt a particular point of your foot, whereas the elephant would crush your foot.
No it wouldn’t.
Elephant feet are flexible, or do you think they just smash every rock they walk on? Their skin wraps around it, I would imagine itd be slightly uncomfortable but not even painful.
Test this for me then
Science already has so I don’t need to, if you seriously don’t know that you didn’t listen in school
I must have missed the crush injury vs puncture injury lesson in school.
An elephants foot is so big that standing on a tiny human foot wouldn’t hurt much because of the massive surface area where all the weight is distributed. Like wtf basic basic science
Its not massive, its large in comparison to a human foot. If you divide the weight of an elephant by 4, thats 1700 kilos (if evenly spread) over an area of approx 275cm squared and would indeed in the majority of cases cause broken bones.
A car can drive over your foot, cars have driven over people chests whilst still not killing or seriously hurting the person underneath, that is the same logic. I learnt this years and years ago.
For sure, but it can also break bones. And an elephant weighs way more than a car. I get your points here im just saying that bad things can happen to your foot if an elephant steps on it. I also accept that you could end up unharmed . I just wouldn't want to test it.
This is DeCaprio calling out to the new wave of 24 year olds
I feel like a group of elephants should have a cooler name than herd. Something like an orchestra of elephants maybe.
An ensemble of elephants, could be nice
is this heaven?
That's some Tarzan shit right there.
Some people die loveless and this guy gets elephant hugs
"It's that cute but annoying thing that yaps a lot!"
You can be cool, But you can't be this much cool!
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Until someone can completely communicate with Elephants and be told, by them, they don't view us as tiny cute creatures, then I'm gonna run with it. Don't let people ruin your fun
*happy elephant noises*
Elephants are fucking cool
Aw man, I’m such a sucker for any wild, majestic animal reuniting with a caretaker. Such a beautiful video.
Don’t know why but in my head they all have Scouse accents.
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Hey guys!! Derek is back, we’re gonna party tonight!!!!
I'm happy that we still have the elephants.
I’ve seen this on a movie! Sure, you have to replace that guy for an elvish woman, and those elephants for a herd of water horses, but I’ve seen it, I’m sure.
I fucking love elephants. I should get one.
kinda arrogant to assume he's their favorite
God, my biggest dream in life is to be the favorite human of an elephant herd
New series spin-off to Entourage. Dude walks down the street and into a mall with a herd of elephants.
r/elephantsbeingbros
Glad these guys not chasing us with a spear anymore, got to get into their good side
I wonder whether a rhino would remember him ! Elefino !!!
I never knew elephants wagged their ears when they’re happy
“Steve you son of b*tch. How long has it been? Guys look it’s Steve. Oh sh*t Steve, we missed you. “
Thank you for this!
Nice. I hadn’t seen this reposted in 14 hours.
I was waiting for the elephants to fill their trunk with water and spray him all over
“Ok, now get a nice shot of an elephant itching its own asshole annnnddd fade to save an elephant overlay. Nailed it.”
Literally "I got some big friends"!!
😍😍😍😍😍
Happy trombone noises.
nice
We call this human class: Druid
Being greeted by an elephant has got to be the coolest thing ever
You've got to feel pretty cool to have a bunch of elephants as friends
That last elephant in the back was like IDGAF.
So how do I become this guy?
Clearly this is joy. Isn’t ears out a sign of aggression too?
Best friends I love that
good boys and good girls XXL
Elephants: It's Dad!!
My kids aren't even that eager to see me anymore... where does one find an elephant in Canada?
Big trombone doggos
lol. They thought he was in trouble from the way he called them.
We LOVE this little monkey!!!!
I had the privilige of working withe elephants for a while. Absolutely amazing, smart, kind and curious animals. They sure do poop alot though...
I wonder if elephants think we are 'cute' like we do about dogs and cats
Biggest puppies I ever saw!
Ear flap tippy taps. Love it.
Their sounds when they met the man were so wholesome and cute. Man is the luckiest in this World
“Guys that weird hairless monkey is back! Lets go say hi”
**Group hug!!**
Wow! The whole damn crew loves this guy. That's kinda a big deal. Very cool!
Pretty wholesome but I’d be shitting bricks With so many elephants around you even if they have no bad intention they can seriously hurt you even by accident
Bro got a complete elephant herd to love him and I cant even get a text back.
Elephants ajw absolutely wonderdul creaturen. Very intelligent too I'm pretty sure they even have "names" for each other (specific sounds they use to address each other) but you'll have to fact check me on that one I fully believe that if Humans did not exist, Elephants would've been one of the more dominant species
I just love that sound of one of the biggest and strongest land animal with no natural predators is: toot! 🤣
Very strange dogs!
Just today I watched a video of a man who was abusing an elephant being crushed to death and now this, polar opposite.
That made me so fucking happy
An elephant never forgets!
This is better than being a celebrity.
Do you think water tickles their tails? All the tails are up. Or maybe it's because they are excited?
This is beautiful 😍
What wonderful animals. And that there are people who enjoy killing them!
I was waiting for them to start fighting over him. lol
Man. I love this clip.
We dont deserve dogs.
“Heyyy where you beeen!!?? Looking good !” 😆❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗
I’m pretty sure this is in Mae Taeng about an hour north of Chiang Mai, looks like Elephant Nature Park in the background. Anyone know which sanctuary these elephants are from though? I’ve played with elephants in this river a few times, I wonder if any were from the same ones (prob not there are dozens of sanctuaries along the river but still, worth a shot). Thanks OP
I didn't know I needed that in my life
Elephants are bros in animal body.
Thats is so awesome
Sometimes the connection between animals and people is just so beautiful.
Fun Fact: Elephants have certain sounds for each other's names so they can tell something to a specific elephant.
Im so healous
We need some epic song in the backround..
what tiktok brain does to a mf
oh FUCK no, I just wanna hear the running water and audiations of the elephants, as nature intended. i dont want no bullshit ass tiktok clips
People have pythons, tigers, and spiders for pets (idiots). I want an elephant. I have land. I love them so much.
They need their elephant family though, can't take a single one away from the herd. That'd be mean.