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Baby elephants (mander.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

ocean dolphins vs river dolphins

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

20240522_200252

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

TBH I'd still rather have the Asian one if I had to choose. They're slightly more domesticated which implies intelligence and willingness to cooperate with humans. African Elephants will just kill you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yet I remember reading somewhere african elephants were tamed before their asian counterparts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I doubt there are many left today. Most of the taming, both African and Asian, in modern history and even historically before that has been done in India and Indonesia, pretty far from the Savannah. In fact, the taming of African elephants for clearing timber in the Belgian Congo was done by employed Mahouts, if I'm not mistaken. No idea who the mastermind behind circus elephants was, but I think the last 3 in all of Europe died a couple of years ago. One famous African Circus Elephant was Jumbo, which just adds to the notion that it was rare.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can't remember where I read it but it was a good coverage on the historical use of elephants in Africa in pre-colonial, as in during the great african kingdoms. And lets not forget war elephants, in Roman times, were from Africa.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'll be sure to source my next elephant from Rome. /sarcasm

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is no need for sarcasm.

We tend to forget Africa had great kingdoms, with advanced civilization standards, before colonial times. Those kingdoms ruled the largest continent on the planet for centuries and elephants were animals used for both work and war.

Hanibal took elephants across the Alpes (most died) in order to invade Italy. I seriously doubt the general ordered his elephants from India.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The conversation was about picking an elephant today. In 2024.

Africa had some amazing kingdoms. Some exaggerated stories claim they had palaces with roads encrusted with precious gemstones, but the truth is that the reality of their civilizations were impressive even without embellishment. That's not what our conversation is about, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I would still pick the African ones, nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

My niece calls them "skrunkly"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe asians still have a bit of mammoth dna

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'd be surprised if any humans have that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Aah, the ol' reddit switche.... Wait, never mind...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Consideringthe subject of the thread is elephants, i would agree

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

The Internet must have broken my brain since the first thing I thought of was wojaks

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Asian elephant calves are #relatable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Just in time for the release of the new dead in the eyes emoji.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I’ll take your entire stock!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Babar!

Gollum.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yee

[–] [email protected] 79 points 5 months ago (6 children)

In my opinion... All baby animals are kinda cute. Exept about 50 % off birds. They look like they are part off an unholy experiment.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

50 % off birds

Well you can't expect the clearance birds to be as nice as the full price ones!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Lol... You did not read what i meant to write. But realy. Lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Baby humans are most certainly not cute... More like a over baked potato

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

half of human babies are just.. fine.. and the other half look like old british men at a pub

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Agreed, the first 6 months/one year they can look seriously fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Baby spiders?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

They're so cute until they get off mom's back and become nightmare sand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Some birds come out half-baked. Needed another week in the egg.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m think your saying the one on the right is a bird. But then you have to consider the documentary about the one on the left learning to fly. So if I guess both animals are birds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Elephants are birds and capybaras are fish.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Babar!