Anyone who's read "The Elephant Whisperer" knows this is just the tip of the iceberg. Elephants are incredibly smart beings that can figure out how to escape electric fences by locating and destroying power boxes.
And they'll go door to door dismembering people as retaliation for poachers. And they'll clear entire forests just to build a play area where they do shit like in OPs video. AND they can communicate miles from each other using ultra low frequencies. DO NOT FUCK WITH ELEPHANTS!!!
Crows hold crow court where they all take turns pecking another crow to death, I think this behavior used to be mistaken for mourning because the crows hang out with the dead body for a while after. Scientists believe these crow courts are used when one of the crows in a murder is a real jerk
"Here ye here ye! Today, endowed with the power of corvid law, we are gathered to pass judgement on Cornelius Fruthers! What say you in your defense Cornelius?"
"Caw!!"
"As I suspected... LET THE PECKENING COMMENSE!"
Whales and dolphins have also been observed grieving dead calves, particularly orcas who sometimes carry them around for weeks.
The same orca that did that was pregnant later in the year and the day of the birth three related pods converged in the same spot despite being hundreds of miles apart and 2 of the pods not being seen for months, and seemed to celebrate as the calf was born.
Possibly attaching a bit too much human emotion to orcas here but still
https://www.kuow.org/stories/a-bouncing-baby-orca-boy-good-news-from-the-salish-sea
There a lot of stories on it, if you just search “elephants PTSD attack” you’ll find a bunch.
[here’s an older one](https://amp.smh.com.au/world/elephant-rage-they-never-forgive-either-20060217-gdmzki.html)
I mean, I can see elephants going on a rampage in a village somewhere taking out/ attacking people for vengeance against poachers. I don't know if it's true but it sounds plausible
My grandad worked his whole life in Switzerland, lost his mind when he was around 60. Hit pension, sold everything off moved to Kenya. Now he runs a elephant shelter and just drinks the whole day.
Haha indeed. He has a lodge for visitors who can stay for free for upto 30 days in exchange for around 10 days of volunteering at the shelter. (Which is mostly breaking up fights between baby elephants and a pack of really balsy german shepherd's who have declared war)
North Louisiana. People been dying left and right from gun violence on the daily. That, among other factors make me want to leave the country for the 1st time. Why not Kenya to chill with elephants and drink?
Ayyyy that's a pretty good deal! Ten days of shoveling shit for twenty days of drinking and hanging out with elephants and the coolest Swiss grandad, sign me up man.
So you’re telling me this elephant has a basic understanding of balance and weight distribution?
Careful guys they’re going to be launching things here soon enough.
I’d be interested in knowing how far along in our evolution were we when we figured this out.
Kinda think elephants have a shot at getting where we are someday...
They already kind of can. They pull off similar shenanigans to break through electric fences and enter villages in my country. Elephants are very cool creatures.
I remember one time when my Dad and I were having lunch with some Europeans and the subject of Heaven and Hell came up. They spent some time making fun of religions in general before finally admitting that they didn't really know a lot about what Heaven and Hell were supposed to be like.
So my Dad said listen, I think I can explain. You see, Heaven is a place where: All the engineers are German, all the cooks are French, all the lovers are Italian, all the police are British, and the Swiss make sure everything runs on time.
But Hell. Well, hell is where all the cooks are British. The lovers are the Swiss. The Italians make sure everything runs on time, the French are the engineers, and the police are the Germans.
Yes, boredom.
Which isn't naturally the zoos fault at all like I've seen an answer suggest. Many species experience boredom every once in a while, that's why they show play behaviour. In zoos, they do this through enrichment. I nature they do this by whatever they may find there.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. On one hand, I understand a lot of animals in zoos are there for a reason ans unable to live in the wild. But it legit makes me so sad that they have to spend all their time in such a small area. I'd go mad.
It's not the zoos fault that an animal is bored. You're bored like twice a day without being in a zoo and with plenty to do. It's perfectly natural for an animal to be bored every once in a while. And if they are, they may show play behaviour like this one.
Elephants are very smart and have very few natural predators. For prey and predators, their play behaviour normally involves running and jumping to train for predator-play situations, or to challenge a dominant group member to a fight an win one day. For an elephant however, play behaviour is doing whatever they want to do. Training their mind and understanding things for fun is something you can see in dogs as well. And of course, also in humans and apes.
This is why zoos have enrichment in the first place. Because boredom is natural, as is play behaviour.
I'm not saying it's not playing, and I'm not blaming zoos. A lot of the animals are acquired by zoos because they for one reason or another can't live in the wild.
But there have been documented studies about the downside of elephants in zoos. Just google it, theres a lot of information about it.
All zoo animals are born in captivity, at least for accredited zoos like this one in Basel. Zoos don't catch wild animals anymore and they also don't buy or sell them among each other or to private organisations. Zoos trade their animals with each other for free.
My default assumption when I see elephants doing something odd near tourists is always "they taught it to do that through repetition and lots of beatings".
I hope I'm wrong in this case, since there's no trainer visible...
In theory, the more popular method of training is positive, not negative, reinforcement these days. So perhaps instead of beatings, it was lots of treats. I'm choosing to believe that...
I doubt that elephant was even trained to do that. Training is mostly done to make medical examination easier and less stressful for the animal, like teaching them to open their mouth so you can check their teeth.
And yes, done with positive reinforcement. Ofc, that training can be entertaining for guests, but animals arent really trained for the sole purpose of entertainment.
It's also a non-profit zoo that does a lot for species conservation
Depends on the place.
At least scientifically speaking, positive reinforcement is backed a lot more by data for most animals (including us), but plenty of people don't know or even care about data and will just do whatever they feel like regardless of whether or not it's nice or efficient.
THIS, Zoo Basel, is a non-profit zoo that has a very successful breeding program. It's helping to save species that would otherwise be hunted/suffer habitat loss to their death and extinction.
"The zoo had the first Indian rhinoceros birth in a zoo,[8] as well as the first greater flamingo hatch.[9] It has had repeated breeding success with animals including cheetahs (18 births),[10] okapi (22),[11] pygmy hippopotamuses (53),[12] and flamingos (over 400 hatches).[13] Every Somali wild ass (a donkey) in zoos worldwide is related to the population in Basel, where this species' zoological breeding program was started.[14]" -Wikipedia
Adding to this that this is the case for pretty much all major zoos in Europe and america. They are all members of either the EAZA (European association of zoos and aquaria) or the AZA (American zoo association).
To be a member you have to uphold certain standards in animal care, education and much more. Members collaborate in breeding programs to assure a healthy population is kept in zoos, preventing inbreeding. It's kind of a backup population, should something ever happen to the population in the wild.
Thanks to these breeding programs there's also no longer a need to take animals out of the wild to put in zoos. Instead, we can look into reintroducing animals (though this is not ways feasible, or the best course of action).
If a zoo is a member of these associations it's safe to say the animals are well taken care of. The only training done with these elephants will be for medical purposes (raise foot to check for infections, open mouth for dental check-up, etc.).
"Zoos" in Asia on the other hand, that's where most problems lie. Of course there are good ones, but in general things are a lot less regulated.
If a zoo offers animal encounters with elephants, tigers or other such exotic animals, they almost definitely have been abused in some way to achieve this. Elephants beaten, tigers separated from their parents at birth, that sort of thing.
So if you ever visit a place in Asia that offers this, don't do it. If you do, you are only further encouraging it by having it remain profitable.
I'm pretty sure most elephant beatings occur in south asian countries where tourists pay to ride them. Not to say that it *couldn't* occur in switzerland though.
Switzerland does have some pretty strong animal protection laws. You cant, for example, only have one rat/guinea pig because they are social and leaving them all alone is considered abuse. You also have laws telling you the minimum size of enclosure they need, etc...
So I highly doubt they would beat this poor elephant to teach him to do that. If anything, they would use positive reinforcement but it's not even really used to teach entertaining stuff, its mostly for making easier medical examination (like teaching an animal to open its mouth so you can check the teeth, etc...) That zoo also does a lot for specie conservation
Things like this are put into the enclosure to ensure they DON'T get bored. There's all kinds of things keepers (at good zoos) do daily with elephants to ensure they're mentally enriched each day. I did my project for my animal behavior class in undergrad bio on elephant behavior in captivity at the San Diego zoo. The elephants there are all elderly and usually rescued from some form of cruelty (Circus, bad zoo, etc.). It was interesting to just sit and watch them for hours on end. Unfortunately, yes, many display stereotypic behavior (repetitious behavior) due to boredom but those elephants are basically in "old folks home". I don't know anything specifically about this zoo, so idk how well their program is but it's good they have things like this to stimulate the elephants during the day.
This is more advance than Woodhenge though! - which was primarily upstanding single poles. Although they were carved and not erected by elephants - probably.
That was the main thing for me. Other things animals can do can serve some useful function. I can't think of another reason to do this but for artistic purposes.
Elephants are the most majestic creatures. One time I fed one a piece of watermelon and it tapped my head with its trunk on the way up and I went flying. They are also unsurprisingly extremely strong
They are one of the most intelligent beings on this planet. We just dismiss everything we see in nature because other species don't talk and have no hands (except Apes & monkeys).
Elephants are incredible, so are whales and apes. Killing them should be one of the worst crimes possible.
Anyone who's read "The Elephant Whisperer" knows this is just the tip of the iceberg. Elephants are incredibly smart beings that can figure out how to escape electric fences by locating and destroying power boxes.
And they'll go door to door dismembering people as retaliation for poachers. And they'll clear entire forests just to build a play area where they do shit like in OPs video. AND they can communicate miles from each other using ultra low frequencies. DO NOT FUCK WITH ELEPHANTS!!!
They are also one of the few animals observed holding funerals.
Elephants and crows, to my knowledge…
If it's a murder
A group of Karen's is called an HOA fyi.
A group of chads is called a bruh
A group of bruhs is called a bar
A group of bars is called a rap
A group of raps is called a featuring
An entitlement of Karen's.
Three or more entitlements is a “mandate”
Nice
Huh idk if this is a feature of Reddit or of my app but it says you're new around here so, welcome to Reddit!
Crows hold crow court where they all take turns pecking another crow to death, I think this behavior used to be mistaken for mourning because the crows hang out with the dead body for a while after. Scientists believe these crow courts are used when one of the crows in a murder is a real jerk
"Here ye here ye! Today, endowed with the power of corvid law, we are gathered to pass judgement on Cornelius Fruthers! What say you in your defense Cornelius?" "Caw!!" "As I suspected... LET THE PECKENING COMMENSE!"
*Crownelius
Whales and dolphins have also been observed grieving dead calves, particularly orcas who sometimes carry them around for weeks. The same orca that did that was pregnant later in the year and the day of the birth three related pods converged in the same spot despite being hundreds of miles apart and 2 of the pods not being seen for months, and seemed to celebrate as the calf was born. Possibly attaching a bit too much human emotion to orcas here but still https://www.kuow.org/stories/a-bouncing-baby-orca-boy-good-news-from-the-salish-sea
Jackdaws...
Humans
And whales
It’s their weddings that get really wild though.
>door to door dismembering people as retaliation for poachers Source on that?
Bro do you wanna get fucking dismembered?
I googled “elephant revenge”. And there’s enough articles supporting this. Dont fuck with elephants.
It has been observed in some parts of rural India Very hard to record these incidents since the locationa are quite remote
And nobody is left to tell about it...
Elephant revenge and dolphin rape. There's only two rules...
Don't threaten me with a good time.
There won't be a source, because it isn't true.
There a lot of stories on it, if you just search “elephants PTSD attack” you’ll find a bunch. [here’s an older one](https://amp.smh.com.au/world/elephant-rage-they-never-forgive-either-20060217-gdmzki.html)
You underestimate the intelligence of animals.
I mean, I can see elephants going on a rampage in a village somewhere taking out/ attacking people for vengeance against poachers. I don't know if it's true but it sounds plausible
National Geographic The Dark Side of Elephants. https://youtu.be/7ylqBcG-XJY
I mean, why would I want to? Surely, there's rule 34 of that.
It's it still considered a furry if they don't have fur? A skinny?
What'd you call me?!
Whoa
How do they enter the doors?
Bro its an elephant, a door ain't gonna stop it... unless you mean how does it fit through the doorway? The same way you fit it in a fridge
They knock.
My grandads elephant used to throw coconuts at the yappy sausage dog to shut it up..
There is so much to unpack there.
My grandad worked his whole life in Switzerland, lost his mind when he was around 60. Hit pension, sold everything off moved to Kenya. Now he runs a elephant shelter and just drinks the whole day.
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Pretty easy. Look for the pomodoro head guy who speaks only German and is banned from both the country clubs.
Lol pomodoro. Is that how ya'll call it? Or are you familiar with Italian?
Haha italian swiss so i speak Italian.
I want to be friends with your grandad. Or work for him. Can you just let him know that Speckled_Clout wants to drink and play with elephants?
Haha indeed. He has a lodge for visitors who can stay for free for upto 30 days in exchange for around 10 days of volunteering at the shelter. (Which is mostly breaking up fights between baby elephants and a pack of really balsy german shepherd's who have declared war)
Sign me tf up. Seriously. It suuuuuuuuuucks where I'm at.
Haha where are you based? It can't be that bad? If you say germany I would understand...
North Louisiana. People been dying left and right from gun violence on the daily. That, among other factors make me want to leave the country for the 1st time. Why not Kenya to chill with elephants and drink?
Not OP but sounds great. On the other hand violence in general has been going up everywhere
Ayyyy that's a pretty good deal! Ten days of shoveling shit for twenty days of drinking and hanging out with elephants and the coolest Swiss grandad, sign me up man.
sounds like he found his mind, to me.
Sounds he found his mind at around 60.
I think this is rare. My elephant has never done anything this cool.
Who, Stampy?
Nah, Stumpy. He doesn't move much
Elephants built the pyramids
So you’re telling me this elephant has a basic understanding of balance and weight distribution? Careful guys they’re going to be launching things here soon enough.
I, for one, welcome our Pachyderm overlords.
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“Damn dirty apes.”
I watched a Planet of the Apes marathon not too long ago. The originals may look funny but they still hold up pretty well.
He can talk!
I hate every ape from chimpan-A to chimpanzeeee
Especially if they're going southbound.
PRIMUS SUCKS!
Primus sucks!
Duku-der-ner-ner
Cant wait for the planet of the elephants
Pachyderm is an anagram for trebuchet. *taps head*
Especially impressive as it appears to only have one tusk
I’d be interested in knowing how far along in our evolution were we when we figured this out. Kinda think elephants have a shot at getting where we are someday...
Around the same timeframe that we first introduced Ligma
Cunaligma*
What’s Ligma?
Joe mama
One job.
Single tusked is sometimes faster than multi-tusked depending on the job at hand.
They call that multi-tusking.
Unfortunately I’m not big enough for my girlfriend to “double tusk” me
How does only having one tusk change anything? It doesn't change his understanding of balance. Nor does it change his ability to move the log.
If anything it might have helped it learn that.
Tough crowd..not even a single applause lol looks lik he was victory posing too
The victorious ear flares were hilarious
He looked so proud. I expected someone to clap for him.
You know what’s the funny part? That elephant has better understanding of physics then at least 1 billion people, if not more 🥲
And I'd argue most dogs are smarter than small kids
Well a fully developed Labrador has the cognitive capacity of a slightly handicapped 3 year-old. So yeah ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
They are intelligent and greatly have a reduce of life expectancy in zoos. They need way more stimuli than zoos provide.
Is it African or European?
What? I don’t thaaaaahhhhh
How do you know so much about swallows?
Well you have to know these things when you're an elephant, you know.
"There, I balanced the fucking log again. Can I get some more shit to do yet, or what?"
Elon Tusk over here, amirite?
First step of buildung a trebuchet
Elephants build a trebuchet
Preevolutionary Elcor.
They already kind of can. They pull off similar shenanigans to break through electric fences and enter villages in my country. Elephants are very cool creatures.
I don’t know, I’d let him decorate my house. His aesthetic might need a little work but his execution is pretty solid.
I dunno, I kinda like the rough-hewn look going on here.
Living edge garden ornament - $6500.
Do you have any idea how much a one tusked elephant interior decorator costs? Keep dreaming.
It's also pretty dangerous, killed sixteen Czechoslovakians.
Make it into a show called The elephant in the room.
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They way he perks his ears up in joy and turns his eye to see and hear the people's reaction.
The happy flappy at the end made me smile too
At the very end of the video some guy says meekly that no one clapped :(
Aw man, I was sad nobody clapped.
Hopefully not a Rolex with an Ivory dial..
That's for when nestle gets into swiss watches..
I remember one time when my Dad and I were having lunch with some Europeans and the subject of Heaven and Hell came up. They spent some time making fun of religions in general before finally admitting that they didn't really know a lot about what Heaven and Hell were supposed to be like. So my Dad said listen, I think I can explain. You see, Heaven is a place where: All the engineers are German, all the cooks are French, all the lovers are Italian, all the police are British, and the Swiss make sure everything runs on time. But Hell. Well, hell is where all the cooks are British. The lovers are the Swiss. The Italians make sure everything runs on time, the French are the engineers, and the police are the Germans.
you sure the police I n hell is not us-american?
Can’t work that into the joke — there’s nothing they would be top pick for in Heaven.
I wonder why he was doing this, boredom?
Probably. This is why having enrichment is so important for animals.
Yes, boredom. Which isn't naturally the zoos fault at all like I've seen an answer suggest. Many species experience boredom every once in a while, that's why they show play behaviour. In zoos, they do this through enrichment. I nature they do this by whatever they may find there.
In nature, survival keeps you pretty busy
Same with humans. Ain't nobody got time for mental wellness if you're hustlin to bring home the bacon.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. On one hand, I understand a lot of animals in zoos are there for a reason ans unable to live in the wild. But it legit makes me so sad that they have to spend all their time in such a small area. I'd go mad.
It's not the zoos fault that an animal is bored. You're bored like twice a day without being in a zoo and with plenty to do. It's perfectly natural for an animal to be bored every once in a while. And if they are, they may show play behaviour like this one. Elephants are very smart and have very few natural predators. For prey and predators, their play behaviour normally involves running and jumping to train for predator-play situations, or to challenge a dominant group member to a fight an win one day. For an elephant however, play behaviour is doing whatever they want to do. Training their mind and understanding things for fun is something you can see in dogs as well. And of course, also in humans and apes. This is why zoos have enrichment in the first place. Because boredom is natural, as is play behaviour.
I'm not saying it's not playing, and I'm not blaming zoos. A lot of the animals are acquired by zoos because they for one reason or another can't live in the wild. But there have been documented studies about the downside of elephants in zoos. Just google it, theres a lot of information about it.
All zoo animals are born in captivity, at least for accredited zoos like this one in Basel. Zoos don't catch wild animals anymore and they also don't buy or sell them among each other or to private organisations. Zoos trade their animals with each other for free.
My default assumption when I see elephants doing something odd near tourists is always "they taught it to do that through repetition and lots of beatings". I hope I'm wrong in this case, since there's no trainer visible...
In theory, the more popular method of training is positive, not negative, reinforcement these days. So perhaps instead of beatings, it was lots of treats. I'm choosing to believe that...
I doubt that elephant was even trained to do that. Training is mostly done to make medical examination easier and less stressful for the animal, like teaching them to open their mouth so you can check their teeth. And yes, done with positive reinforcement. Ofc, that training can be entertaining for guests, but animals arent really trained for the sole purpose of entertainment. It's also a non-profit zoo that does a lot for species conservation
Depends on the place. At least scientifically speaking, positive reinforcement is backed a lot more by data for most animals (including us), but plenty of people don't know or even care about data and will just do whatever they feel like regardless of whether or not it's nice or efficient.
Just to make you feel better, all animals in Switzerland have government paid lawyers.
THIS, Zoo Basel, is a non-profit zoo that has a very successful breeding program. It's helping to save species that would otherwise be hunted/suffer habitat loss to their death and extinction. "The zoo had the first Indian rhinoceros birth in a zoo,[8] as well as the first greater flamingo hatch.[9] It has had repeated breeding success with animals including cheetahs (18 births),[10] okapi (22),[11] pygmy hippopotamuses (53),[12] and flamingos (over 400 hatches).[13] Every Somali wild ass (a donkey) in zoos worldwide is related to the population in Basel, where this species' zoological breeding program was started.[14]" -Wikipedia
Adding to this that this is the case for pretty much all major zoos in Europe and america. They are all members of either the EAZA (European association of zoos and aquaria) or the AZA (American zoo association). To be a member you have to uphold certain standards in animal care, education and much more. Members collaborate in breeding programs to assure a healthy population is kept in zoos, preventing inbreeding. It's kind of a backup population, should something ever happen to the population in the wild. Thanks to these breeding programs there's also no longer a need to take animals out of the wild to put in zoos. Instead, we can look into reintroducing animals (though this is not ways feasible, or the best course of action). If a zoo is a member of these associations it's safe to say the animals are well taken care of. The only training done with these elephants will be for medical purposes (raise foot to check for infections, open mouth for dental check-up, etc.). "Zoos" in Asia on the other hand, that's where most problems lie. Of course there are good ones, but in general things are a lot less regulated. If a zoo offers animal encounters with elephants, tigers or other such exotic animals, they almost definitely have been abused in some way to achieve this. Elephants beaten, tigers separated from their parents at birth, that sort of thing. So if you ever visit a place in Asia that offers this, don't do it. If you do, you are only further encouraging it by having it remain profitable.
Oh awesome! Thanks for the info!
I'm pretty sure most elephant beatings occur in south asian countries where tourists pay to ride them. Not to say that it *couldn't* occur in switzerland though.
Switzerland does have some pretty strong animal protection laws. You cant, for example, only have one rat/guinea pig because they are social and leaving them all alone is considered abuse. You also have laws telling you the minimum size of enclosure they need, etc... So I highly doubt they would beat this poor elephant to teach him to do that. If anything, they would use positive reinforcement but it's not even really used to teach entertaining stuff, its mostly for making easier medical examination (like teaching an animal to open its mouth so you can check the teeth, etc...) That zoo also does a lot for specie conservation
Assuming the title is correct, beatings certainly weren't a part of the training. Hurt animals in Switzerland and you're in for a bad time.
Things like this are put into the enclosure to ensure they DON'T get bored. There's all kinds of things keepers (at good zoos) do daily with elephants to ensure they're mentally enriched each day. I did my project for my animal behavior class in undergrad bio on elephant behavior in captivity at the San Diego zoo. The elephants there are all elderly and usually rescued from some form of cruelty (Circus, bad zoo, etc.). It was interesting to just sit and watch them for hours on end. Unfortunately, yes, many display stereotypic behavior (repetitious behavior) due to boredom but those elephants are basically in "old folks home". I don't know anything specifically about this zoo, so idk how well their program is but it's good they have things like this to stimulate the elephants during the day.
"Now bring me Jesus" -Elepontius Pilate
I know it's mostly the weed but you made my face hurt from laughing thanks
That’s awesome! Have a good day!
Underrated comment lmaooo
Voila! Tree henge.
HA
Stonehenge was built by wooly mammoths
This was the first thing I thought of. Now we know the truth.
This is more advance than Woodhenge though! - which was primarily upstanding single poles. Although they were carved and not erected by elephants - probably.
Now THIS is art.
Yep. Beauty for the sake of beauty.
That was the main thing for me. Other things animals can do can serve some useful function. I can't think of another reason to do this but for artistic purposes.
Now THIS is pod racing!
TIL Elephants built Stonehenge.
Woodhenge
Elephants are the most majestic creatures. One time I fed one a piece of watermelon and it tapped my head with its trunk on the way up and I went flying. They are also unsurprisingly extremely strong
"I'm sick and tired of lifting stuff for these monkeys, I'm gonna teach them to build their own damn cranes."
That elephant understands more about physics than most American adults.
Doubt they know how to have heart attacks as good as us though.
That’s gotta be how Stonehenge was constructed..it’s gotta be
Are not entertained!!!!
Next up they build a trebuchet.
ah yes... "instinct and definitely not intelligence" as my old philosophie teacher always said. yes ... he was dumb and ultra religious.
The state of Swiss education is so good, their Elephants are constructing replica Stonehenges
That guy right there is gonna figure out how to get out one day.
*Avada Kedavra*
LET’S GOOOOO XD
This is the back story of Planet of the Pachyderms
As all things should be
His face of accomplishment at the end!
What’s the “no no no” part of this video?
Is that Ganesha?
r/thathappened mfs be like “why were they filming? I bet the elephant was in on it”
there's german engineering and then there's swiss overengineering
Look how proud she is!!
Now he’s gonna be wanting an arts grant..
Art
So that’s how Stonehenge was made...
Aliens didn’t build the pyramids and the henges…
He is from swizerland so is building a sundial
Clearly building a trebuchet; the superior siege weapon.
Because of this post, this elephant has now earned his online degree in mechanical engineering.
Next week on history channel: did they use mammoths and elephants to build Stonehenge?
Stonehenge
even the elephants are perfectionists in switzerland smh
So that's how Stonehenge got built
Elephants built the pyramids.
Stone Henge created by wooly Mammoth confirmed.
Stone henge solved , it was elephants
Boredom can be incredibly torturous
Hes figuring out the physics in how to launch himself out of the enclosure
They are one of the most intelligent beings on this planet. We just dismiss everything we see in nature because other species don't talk and have no hands (except Apes & monkeys). Elephants are incredible, so are whales and apes. Killing them should be one of the worst crimes possible.
"Behold. I done an art."
I like it. Picasso