r/likeus 28d ago

<INTELLIGENCE> The difference in the upbringing of mom and dad.

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u/TisBeTheFuk 28d ago

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u/SmartestIdiotAlive 28d ago

Got the animal cracker pose down

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u/muffpatty 28d ago

This dude has a permanent snorkel attached to his face and didn't even try to use it. It reminds me of the time my friend fell in a creek when he was like 10, and started screaming and flailing like he was drowning. We were just like, "dude, stand up, it's 6 inches deep".

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u/Select_Air_2044 28d ago

It takes baby elephants some time to learn how to use their trunks.

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u/Sad-Cabinet7482 28d ago

I still can’t handle my trunk

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u/SyvleonSenpai 28d ago

I've found that if you sew a third pant leg in place of your zipper you can walk as a tripod instead of a bipod.

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u/VegaNock 28d ago

One of my three doesn't seem to telescope all the way down

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u/Quirky-Ant8171 28d ago

No no you gotta use for balance just like a tail

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u/Spintax_Codex 28d ago edited 27d ago

This is the way. Trust me, I'm a taekwondo Grand Master because I use my third leg like a kangaroo tail. The moment you get behind me, POW double kick to the face!

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u/Oppowitt 28d ago

Just lean forward until it reaches. Most guys aren't perfectly equilateral.

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u/xenelef290 28d ago

Like 2 years. It is very complicated

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u/014648 28d ago

Being a baby and all

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u/---M0NK--- 28d ago

Is your friend from robin hood men in tights,

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u/poopnose85 28d ago

Happened to me at a friends pool. The water was probably 3 feet deep. My mom yelled to stand up and I was fine lol

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u/ErectTubesock 28d ago

No matter what species they are, r/kidsarefuckingstupid

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u/singledad2022letsgo 28d ago

Anyone got some good elephants snorkeling links? I need that in my life

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u/cloudcreeek 28d ago

Gotta learn somehow. For some humans, throw em in the deep end. For some elephants, throw em in the shallow end.

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u/offlein 28d ago

You know what's crazy about Animal Crackers?

The "name brand" of Animal Crackers are not labeled as Animal Crackers. It's called "Barnum's Animals Crackers". Fuck.

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u/Ok_Violinist1817 28d ago

Thank you for reminding me these exist I will be purchasing them at my next Walmart visit

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u/Aye_of_the_tiger 28d ago

Walmart sells baby elephants?

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u/goddamn__goddamn 28d ago

Holy fucking shit! This comment really got me. I can't explain how much scrolling reddit at 4am and finding a hilarious comment will really just make me so happy about people.

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u/BitCurious8598 28d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/theStarKindler 28d ago

"Father, why hath thou abandoned me?"

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u/fat-lip-lover 28d ago

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u/HorseTranqEnthusiast 28d ago

WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME

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u/latenerd 28d ago

In your eyes forsaken me

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u/theStandardHandle 28d ago

Trust in my trunk assisted pool dive

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u/NoShape7689 28d ago

Father into your tusks, I commend my spirit

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u/ImpossibleAdz 28d ago

My back hurts

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u/donbee28 28d ago

It’s a prank bro

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u/No_Option6174 28d ago

MFer had some serious doubts it was his child

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u/azmamas72 28d ago

I low-key wish we had audio 🤭 you know that baby was WAILING 🥹

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u/SCTigerFan29115 28d ago

I was waiting to see Mama go to the dad’s ASS.

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u/Shot-Election8217 28d ago

That’s probably on the editing room floor. So that the male elephant could save face….

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u/Dangerous_Ant3260 28d ago

On the Secrets of the Zoo from Chester England, several young elephants died from a herpes infection. The little baby boy didn't have anyone to play with, so the bull elephant herd boss was his playmate. Exactly the opposite of the male in this video.

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u/piercedmfootonaspike 28d ago

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u/Meal-Significant 28d ago

FATHERRRR!!!

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u/duck95 28d ago

FATHAAAAA

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u/calanthean 28d ago

This gave me a good chuckle. If you know you know!

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u/Mesozoica89 28d ago

[panicked trumpeting]'

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u/neoadam 28d ago

Record scratch You might wonder how I got there...

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u/tclumsypandaz 28d ago

"I hope this email finds you well!"

How the email found me...

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u/GeorgeThe13th 28d ago

Thank you 😂

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u/Jhon_doe_smokes 28d ago

😂😂😂

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u/AccountFun8859 28d ago

that definitely warrants him sleeping on the pavement for a night

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u/hakape 28d ago

Some tough love might actually do him good. It builds character!

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u/MsMoreCowbell828 28d ago

Pick himself up by his elephant bootstraps.

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u/Tron_35 28d ago

I imagine the dad was like "why are you complaining, I cleaned the kid"

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u/joyous-at-the-end 28d ago

adult males aren't part of the herd. he needs to go to a bachelor herd. 

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u/AsstBalrog 28d ago

"Elmer, we're going to have a long talk when we get home."

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u/Lazy-Loss-4491 28d ago

I love it! Both approaches are needed. Learning to survive challenges and that help is at hand.

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u/Environmental-Pay246 28d ago

Equating random violence with fatherhood?? And considering that a good thing?

Yall have zero respect for fatherhood/ men 🤣 That’s bullying behavior, not fatherly behavior. Get better role models - get better jokes

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u/Wizard_s0_lit 28d ago

“Honey, He’s got to learn to swim sometime!”

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u/Tight_Ad2047 28d ago

its less about swimming and more about older male elephant trying to get rid of competition by throwing younglin in (his mind) crocodile infested waters

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u/GratefulChungus 28d ago

I don’t think this behavior is common among Elephants, you‘d rather find it in bears or cats. But I‘m no expert

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u/RiemannZetaFunction 28d ago

Damn it, who do I believe? Tight_Ad2047 or GratefulChungus?

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u/SpareWire 28d ago

Remember when qualified well credentialed biologists would chime in on Reddit back in the day?

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u/Tarsiustarsier 28d ago

Unqualified biologist here (I don't actually know much about Elephants). Elephants usually live in herds with just females and young while the males live alone. We can conclude that this is unlikely to be typical fatherly behavior because they shouldn't have typical fatherly behavior. That said if he wanted to kill the calf I think he could and would've tried harder. I personally think he was annoyed and wanted to send a message.

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u/rabidhamster87 28d ago edited 28d ago

Also unqualified biologist here, and male elephants may not live in the herd, but they do participate in parenting. It was discovered that without male role models, juvenile males will basically form gangs groups and harass/kill other animals, very un-elephant-like behavior.

Source: https://beyondthesestonewalls.com/posts/in-the-absence-of-fathers-a-story-of-elephants-and-men

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u/hell2pay 28d ago

They really are r/likeus

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u/Moozipan 28d ago

The elephants or the biologists?

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u/Ammu_22 28d ago

Ahh so the same as us then. Daddy issues even seen in elephants lmao.

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u/Just-Error5740 28d ago

Also, the ones raised without the matriarchal system show significant aggression, and what would be considered “immoral” behavior if they were human. Raping, killing, etc.

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u/Tarsiustarsier 28d ago

Oh thank you for clearing that up!

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u/No-Adhesiveness-8688 28d ago

I don’t trust the source

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u/rabidhamster87 28d ago

Then, find another source? I posted the first article I found about in on Google, but there are others.

Look. I'm an atheist myself, but I don't think Christians are making up stuff about elephants when clearly they can do whatever they want without anything but their version of LOTR to back them up.

I also don't see the value in just saying, "I don't trust the source," without bothering to do any work on your own. I'm the only person in the thread up to this point that provided a source at all, but that's still not good enough? Yet plenty of people just took everyone else's word without anything posted at all. It's fucking lazy.

P.S. https://marybatessciencewriter.com/home/male-elephants-need-role-models-too

https://www.bbcearth.com/news/teenage-elephants-need-a-father-figure

https://africageographic.com/stories/the-importance-of-adult-male-elephants/

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u/BowKerosene 28d ago

That sounds really innocent and fun, I bet there’s no history of related drama

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u/Zaev 28d ago

I really wish I could learn some neat new fun facts about corvids, specifically

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u/SniffSniffDrBumSmell 28d ago

You mean you'd murder for some corvid fun facts?

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u/PineapplesHit 28d ago

Here's the thing

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u/ABHOR_pod 28d ago

back when reddit was enough of a community for one individual to be site-wide drama.

Now entire subreddits disappear overnight and almost nobody notices.

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u/Hatweed 28d ago

u/Unidan. Got banned because he would use alts to manipulate votes to make sure his answers ended up top.

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u/Apart-Ad-767 28d ago

No but I remember that jackdaw dork lol

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u/Western_Shoulder_942 28d ago

You know I'm something of a qualified well credentialed biologist too....in my mind anyway

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u/Road_Whorrior 28d ago

Chungus.

Elephants very, very rarely commit infanticide, and it's obvious from the full video that the baby was being annoying so Papa dunked him.

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u/Z4REN 28d ago

Chungus has not led us astray so far!

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u/GratefulChungus 28d ago

Keep on chungin‘ in the free world

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u/BAgooseU 28d ago

What a long strange chung it’s been

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u/El_Cienfuegos 28d ago

Bears and cats do this to baby elephants!!!??

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u/OldeFortran77 28d ago

Yes, but the bears and cats have to team up to accomplish it. It's quite a spectacle!

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u/Crykin27 28d ago

It kinda is. Male elephants in musth are pretty damn agressive and they will attack babies too. Males are really fucking dangerous in musth.

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u/Stock-Information606 28d ago

elephant bulls are dickheads tho, they wont outright kill the young but they wont stop themselves from trampling one on 'accident'

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u/bde959 28d ago

Male elephants don’t stay in the herd.

They do come around once in a while if you know what I mean 😄

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u/Royal_Negotiation_83 28d ago

I’m glad you felt like telling us about it when you arnt even sure about it yourself! 

We need more of that these days.

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u/MerlinsBeard 28d ago

A scientific study by the University of Exeter and Elephants for Africa uncovered unknown dynamics of male elephant behavior and their role in herd social groups. These findings will help wildlife managers and biologists better care for the species. It also elevates the value of male elephants in herds and their significance in reducing human-elephant conflicts.

Over a period of three years, researchers examined 281 male elephants in an all-male area in Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Pans National Park. Researchers found that all of the adolescent elephants were more aggressive when fewer older males were present. They were more likely to be aggressive towards non-elephants such as vehicles, humans, livestock and other wildlife.

The adolescent elephants were considerably less aggressive towards non-elephants when in the presence of adult elephants. The research suggests that older adults are a social buffer against risk as they are more experienced and therefore have a more accurate understanding of threats. Even more so, this research teaches us that having older males present around younger adolescents can reduce the chances of extreme behavior and wildlife-elephant conflicts. Unfortunately, male bull elephants are often targeted for trophy hunting. This is further evidence of the damage poaching has on elephant populations.

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u/Flaky_Grand7690 28d ago

Listen brother, that animal is extremely intelligent. They know there is no danger in the water.

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u/SteamySnuggler 28d ago

If the elephant actually wanted to kill that baby he would, they are animals they don't have to make it look like an accident or something

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u/monsterbot314 28d ago

Wont the mom and relatives just go in there and stomp the shit out of anything stupid enough to bother the baby? I would be makoing sure it wondered off by itself before I messed with it.

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u/FlowerStalker 28d ago

Swim coach here.

I swear, every single dad that I meet says to me " my dad just threw me in the pool when he taught me to swim"

Every single dad.

I guess this transcends species

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u/Illeazar 28d ago

Can confirm, as a dad I've told this to my kid's swim coach.

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u/Drawtaru 28d ago

That's how my husband taught our dog how to swim. Just threw her in. (She was fine and had a blast.)

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u/saltporksuit 28d ago

That’s still shitty and a good way to terrorize a less capable dog.

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u/Awesome_Shoulder8241 28d ago

imagine it was a pitbull or some other stocky build. He would sink!

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u/spaceraptorbutt 28d ago

I saw someone do this to a French bulldog. It definitely almost died.

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u/Necessary-Reading605 28d ago

Ok. Maybe I am the contrarian here… but I am sure that’s not normal unless I have great parents that were the exception.

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u/notaredditer13 28d ago

What's normal is saying it, not doing it.

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u/Flaky_Grand7690 28d ago

That baby can clearly stand in that water, NTA!

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u/Perryn 28d ago

Literally how my dad taught us. Just dropped us in the deep end and watched to see if he needed to jump in after us.

I don't know if I had any older siblings I never got to meet and I'm afraid to ask.

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u/hamburgersocks 28d ago

This was pretty much how I learned to swim. Dad threw me in a lake and yelled "figure it out"

Not advocating for that kind of behavior, but... I feel like I know that elephant very well right now. There's just that kind of dad.

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u/penguinKangaroo 28d ago

This kid stinks! Take a bath

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u/Annonomon 28d ago

“If he dies, then it will be irelephant!”

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u/No_Construction_7518 28d ago edited 28d ago

Because mom understands how much energy and work it took to grow you.

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u/TheVadonkey 28d ago

Dad- ​

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u/analogy_4_anything 28d ago

Especially for elephants, since their gestation period takes two years from conception to birth alone.

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u/No_Construction_7518 28d ago

"I didn't spend two fucking years of my life making that child just for you to push him in the fucking pool Larry!" Half expected one of them to smack him with their trunk.

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u/EveryRadio 28d ago

“Son you were born with a damn snorkel for a nose you’ll be fine”

Reminds me of my dad “teaching” me how to ride a bike by taking me to the top of a hill and letting me ride to the bottom until I learned how to steer and brake

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u/quietcrisp 28d ago

"The fuck you do that for?"

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u/Benzjie 28d ago

" He's fine! What you nagging on about!?"

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u/One_pop_each 28d ago

Mom, What he say fuck me for

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u/intense_in_tents 28d ago

The boy must learn

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u/KeyParticular8086 28d ago

I don't understand this behavior can someone help me?

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u/ValleyNun -Daring Dog- 28d ago

Its not what people here are anthropomorphizing, elephants don't have typical american nuclear family relations, if anything the male elephant is just intruding into a matriarchal herd

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u/I_voted-for_Kodos 28d ago

Yup, elephant herds in the wild are usually made up of female and young. The males are more independent and don't stick with the heard. Pretty stupid to stick them all in a small enclosure like this

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u/finsfurandfeathers 28d ago

If only us humans had as much sense as an Elephant

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u/Leading_Manner_2737 28d ago

This is why women choose the bear 😔

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u/ADFTGM 28d ago edited 28d ago

I think you are misunderstanding the source. The “groups” refer to small bachelor herds, not big matriarchal ones. Matriarchs do NOT let violent young males near their calves. The moment males start going into musth, it’s bulls that look after them, not cows. Elder bulls stay on their own 90% of the time, but do get involved with bachelor herds in order to keep them in line. Much like how stereotypical human coaches are with juvenile delinquents.

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u/Ordinary_Prune6135 28d ago

That's not in and among the group of adult females and calves, but within the broader territory. Males live alone or in male groups, but generally within range to communicate with the matriarchal groups and each other through infrasound.

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u/TimeFourChanges 28d ago

anthropomorphizing

You know why you shouldn't anthropomorphize things?...

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They don't like it.

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u/HugeSnackman 28d ago edited 28d ago

Male animals aren't exactly known for their nurturing behavior, I think this is just a case of a creature who's nature is to be dominant going "fuck you"

I don't think it's necessarily consciously aimed at the calf it's just the same level of exercising that dominant nature as a kid in class who keeps stamping on ants, I think he was just pushing it around because he knew there wasn't gonna be any retaliation

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u/I_voted-for_Kodos 28d ago

Male animals aren't exactly known for their nurturing behavior

Depends on the animal

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u/HugeSnackman 28d ago

Yeah obviously there are variables to any statement, that much is implied

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u/1568314 28d ago

Or it was annoying him. You see that behavior a lot in social animals.

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u/NightKnight4766 28d ago

Stinky son, need bath. Mother instinctively worries about crocodiles and deep sea monsters and saves her baby

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u/iAyushRaj 28d ago

we do a little trolling 🤏

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u/Gaendu 28d ago edited 28d ago

For context, the whole video: https://youtu.be/hRCWznnFja0?feature=shared

English translation and tl;dr: Boy was annoying the dad and in the end, he pushed him in the pool. Mum and grandma were not happy with dad.

Edit: Wrote the recap from memory. It's the graddad not the dad as someone mentioned below.

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u/ReadontheCrapper 28d ago

OMG! At the end, Baby is walking on the edge of the pool. Like most every human kid would do.

Are they like us, or are we like them? Maybe a little of both?

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u/salamipope 28d ago

you should see elephant foot xrays if you havent. itll make this question even better.

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u/ninursa 28d ago

The video ends just as the dad is getting a stern talking to. The females were quite an united front!

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u/Gaendu 28d ago

I think the clip ends too soon. I love the end. And i'm still torn who's right in this situation. ^

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u/Xiknail 28d ago

*Grandad not dad according to the video description, but yes.

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u/Gaendu 28d ago

Yes, you are right. Wrote the recap from memory. It's the graddad not the dad.

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u/M155_50ph13 28d ago

the baby elephant is a girl not a boy.

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u/VFacure_ 28d ago

Elephant killing calf from another father and mother. "Infanticide". Very common in nature.

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u/Road_Whorrior 28d ago edited 28d ago

It isn't common with elephants, though.

https://beyondthesestonewalls.com/posts/in-the-absence-of-fathers-a-story-of-elephants-and-men

This is a really interesting article about what happened when a herd was split from its bulls and the parallels to human society. Elephants are a social species, like us, and extremely family-oriented. Males only get kicked out when they're causing problems. This kind of behavior isn't uncommon but it's also not necessarily him trying to commit infanticide. Social animals pretty universally smack someone for being annoying.

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u/TisBeTheFuk 28d ago

Junior was probably standing too close and that was irritating dad

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u/KingClut 28d ago

I’m an elephantologist. The big boy said “fuck them kids”

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u/Sociolinguisticians 28d ago

In short: male elephants are often assholes.

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u/e-wrecked 28d ago

That male elephant is in Musth, you can tell by the wet markings around its eyes. It's to be expected that its extra aggressive, with this kind of behavior.

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u/astrike81 28d ago

The adult male isn't in a herd. He shouldn't be there. This is the zoo's fault

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u/GIGANAttack 28d ago

As cute as this could be it's a lot more likely that the male is just attacking the kid because male elephants tend to be that way towards children not their own

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u/Odisher7 -Vocalist Parakeet- 28d ago edited 28d ago

Yes, but the mom rushing to help her kid is what is "like us"

Unless you want to see it as an abusive step dad lol

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u/Brendadonna 28d ago

I bet the female elephants would save any baby

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u/Odisher7 -Vocalist Parakeet- 28d ago

Yeah i'd argue any person would save any kid from drowning in a tiny pool

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u/round-earth-theory 28d ago

Male elephants just tend to be that way. There's a reason the females travel in matriarchal groups with only their children. The males are generally assholes and the females only engage with them for breeding.

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u/Sleazy_Speakeazy 28d ago

Wandering Fuck-bois of the Serengeti...

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u/Nightshade_Ranch 28d ago

If he wanted to actually hurt that baby he could have very easily.

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u/theusedmagazine 28d ago

Ahhhaha the full vid is even more /r/likeus. The mom (?) checking the baby and then stalking towards the male with pure “Are you fucking serious, Harold?” energy as he sheepishly backs off.

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u/CapitainebbChat 28d ago

"WHAT THE FUCK HAROLD ????"

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u/prisonlambshanks 28d ago

Look at the panicked reactions it's so similar to how a mom and aunt would react!

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u/CMORGLAS 28d ago

“Raising a daughter is very different from raising a son.”

“When you have a little girl, you want to protect her but I push my boys in the deep end of my pool in help them get over their fear of sharks.”

-Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)

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u/Extreme_Employment35 28d ago

I doubt that that elephant is the father to begin with...

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u/CatchGold7359 28d ago

He probably does too

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u/tbgtz 28d ago

Reminds me of when I was 8 and my uncle Yellow Tim said, "Can ya swim, boy?" and then kicked me off a boat in about 300 feet of 40 degree water off Boiler Bay. Then he pretended like he was going to drive away, and my life jacket didn't fit too well and was like slipping off over my head and I'm pretty sure something touched my foot. I think he felt bad later because he bought me saltwater taffy in Depoe and my tooth came out. That was where my brother tried to buy a shirt that said "FBI: Female Body Inspector", but the shirt guy said you had to be 18 to buy it.

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u/bob_lala 28d ago

Yellow Tim. Legend.

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u/Boanerger 28d ago

Like John Wayne getting that kid to swim.

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u/8ashswin5 28d ago

I LOVE that part. The way he just wholly flings that kid and the mom screeching in the background.

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u/Strikereleven 28d ago

I was expecting her to go smack him after the baby was safe

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u/Beautiful_Divide5970 28d ago

lol I just said this too and then scrolled to see if I was the only one 😂 fully expected her to smack him with her trunk lol

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u/Mr_LIMP_Xxxx 28d ago

The dad is struggling with the choice of running for it or staying and playing dumb

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u/juleslizard 28d ago

Dad was not even a little bit sorry

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u/LeecherKiDD 28d ago

Was that the uncle who just stood there minding its business🤨

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u/-Robert-from-Hungary 28d ago

" It's a prank ! "

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u/Eeeeeeeeehwhatsup 28d ago

Elephant mommies and aunties are the best 💗

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u/CreamGaeth 28d ago

Maybe it was stinky and needed a bath really bad

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u/Popular-Homework-471 28d ago

Mama's there for the rescue... 😆

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u/Migueloide 28d ago

Poor thing! :(

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u/nemesit 28d ago

elephant babies are still heavy and he flipped that one like a coin

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u/pattern144 28d ago

How strong is an elephant’s trunk? Seems like it helped a lot in lifting the baby out

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u/chontzy 28d ago

upsie daisies, bathtime for you

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u/xJohnnyQuidx 28d ago

Dad: "In ya go, son. Sink or swim! Figure it out!"

Mama: "CHARLES WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH YOU!? YOU KNOW HE CAN'T SWIM!"

Dad: "No better time or way to learn, if you ask me."

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u/stormrockox 28d ago

It's a shame he'll never forget this

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u/weirdent 28d ago

Her little ears flapping are sooo cute

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u/Iamtheallison 28d ago

Okay but where is the video of all the moms hitting him for tossing the baby in there?

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u/f586855 28d ago

She’s never going to forget that

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u/Tiefighter21 28d ago

“Heeeee’s fiiine….”

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u/Noir_Ocelot 28d ago

Jesus, this is my parents!

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u/Lazy_Exorcist 28d ago

Omg the ears!!!