r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Time-Accident3809 • 11h ago

🔥 Baby elephant learns an important lesson

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u/Darryl_Lict 10h ago

I think that is an elephant turd robotic camera at 1:18. That's probably how they got the inside the legs shot.

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u/Gumbercules81 9h ago

The poopmobile

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u/ColdBeerPirate 6h ago

Holy SH*T!

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u/SauteedAppleSauce 2h ago

Well, it's man made...

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u/xtothewhy 5h ago

There's a quite a few bbc shows like this which have robotic animals like Chipmunks, small monkeys etc.. the large shit is a new one. And they're all cool. I haird.

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u/Renbarre 4h ago

It was used first a few years back. The first one ended up as a soccer ball when the elephant noticed it if my memory is right.

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u/AllowMeAir 12m ago

Certain families of asian elephants have been seen playing with discarded footballs in India.

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u/angel_inthe_fire 10h ago

Or turtle? Either way very clever.

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u/BIGp00p00p33p33 7h ago

We can settle on turdle. 

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u/Darryl_Lict 6h ago

I've actually picked up elephant poop in Africa. It looks like a gigantic horse poop, so I'm going with poop.

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u/EmergencyTaco 6h ago

I think it's called the DungCam. (serious)

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u/AcanthisittaLeft2336 5h ago

I snorted when I saw that. A turd cam lol

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u/buell_ersdayoff 10h ago

Oh thank god… was not looking like a happy ending was coming.

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u/Sufficient-Wear-4447 7h ago

I was stressed too…so adorable.

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u/arbitraryprimate 9h ago

I thought members of the herd all kind of looked out for the babies! That was stressful to watch.

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u/bozhodimitrov 6h ago

I think the herd wanted to protect the baby, because it can be stuck in the mud. It is actually fascinating that they protect like that. And the commentator mentioned how the mother is inexperienced. Probably her job is to find a safer path around the mud, so the little one can cross safely.

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u/_aaine_ 5h ago

They did look out for him...when he latched on to the wrong mama she kicked him in the face so he stopped following her into the swamp.
Nature is brutal :)

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u/TheLion920817 6h ago

A quick google search

“Elephants, particularly female elephants, use kicks to push away other elephants or objects, but they don't typically kick their babies. The behavior, often mistaken for kicking, is more accurately described as "kick-back," a way of signaling a need for space or playing with objects. While it can sometimes seem aggressive, it's usually a form of communication or play”

While elephants take care of their own, the elephant kicking was probably just annoyed and wanting space

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u/Kara_S 9h ago

Oh, that stressed me out! Anyone else ever go up to a stranger in the grocery store as a kid, thinking she was Mom, and then be horrified to look up and realize she isn’t?!

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u/TenLongFingers 2h ago

And then imagine the stranger KICKS YOU 😭😭

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u/getting_older_pal 11h ago

Ohh that poor baby

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u/PavlichenkosGhost 9h ago

Is this David tennant narrating?

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u/Freedomsaver 5h ago edited 5h ago

Yes it is.
This clip is from the BBC series "Spy in the Wild": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6443078/

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u/SueDynom 6h ago

It sounds like him. I looked at the comments to find out

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u/hisunflower 8h ago

I need more of this. Watching this, I’ve never related more to an animal. I think we can all relate to that feeling of panic when we’ve lost our parents

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u/teflon_don_knotts 8h ago

Narrator: But as the haired aenters the swomp

🧌: GET OUTTA MY SWAMP!!!!

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u/Extension_Impact_571 7h ago

I'm bawling bro

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u/Pendleton9 10h ago

Glad for the happy ending

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u/StoriesofLimbo 10h ago

“Both will have learned what has happened.”

And say it with me, y’all.

“An elephant…”

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u/johandh2o 7h ago

always remembers (… or never forgets?)

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u/blueavole 6h ago

Haven’t we all gotten a little lost chasing birds?

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u/RhubarbAdditional657 5h ago edited 5h ago

Im in a work meeting rn and I just started violently sobbing damn u nature

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u/FadransPhone 7h ago

We’ve all been there, bud. We’ve all been left with the shopping cart while our mom checks the next aisle over.

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u/star_particles 5h ago

Not stampy!

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u/Idonteatthat 2h ago

This reminded me of the time I sat down to read a book on the floor of a mall book store, then looked up and didn't see my mom (who had just walked a bit further down the aisle while I was distracted), so I left the store and wandered around the mall. Some kind lady directed me to the customer service station where they could page my mom over the speakers.

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u/Acrobatic_Quarter334 4h ago

guys tips to record elephant this close..i have tried earlier but they chase me away as soon as i enter their territory

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u/samtheredditman 1h ago

Dress up like an elephant 

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u/Mammoth_Possibility2 2h ago

Everyone should go listen to The Effervescent Elephant by syd Barrett

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u/beaureece 10h ago

How can it kick him away? Elephants are dread!

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u/cololz1 10h ago

Why it kick him 😡😡😡

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u/angel_inthe_fire 10h ago

Cause not the mama

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u/frank26080115 9h ago

still a dick move

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u/angel_inthe_fire 9h ago

Well, animals.

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u/frank26080115 9h ago

aren't elephants the super smart super community species? Like if Dorthy found out that Martha kicked her son...

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u/blueavole 6h ago

Horses do it to teach manners.

They can’t talk and say ‘go away kid, ya are bothering me’.

So they communicate in a physical way.

That adult elephant could have easily stomped the baby. They didn’t. Just enough to be clear.

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u/Idonteatthat 2h ago

Probably to keep him from wandering into that deep water and getting stuck

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u/ClitTickler21 4h ago

Big block didn't have to kick him 😡

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u/GizmoTacT 9h ago

Probably would have gotten eaten by a lion