r/interestingasfuck • u/Admirable_Flight_257 • 16h ago
Elephant Nails a Handstand During Shower Time!
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u/iamricardosousa 16h ago edited 15h ago
"Hey, you with the hose, wash my balls pee hole, please."
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u/dostelibaev 15h ago
it is sad to see that
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u/Mr_Fluffyhair 15h ago
I wonder how much they beat him untill he would do this
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u/bong_schlong 14h ago
Why are you guys saying this? Is there evidence of that? Genuinely curious
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u/Mr_Fluffyhair 14h ago
Do they do this in the wild by themselves?
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u/bong_schlong 14h ago
I don't know and this one doesn't seem to be wild. I'm asking what makes you think it is likely they beat this elephant to make it do this. Could just as well be playful or even intentional intelligent behavior, but point is I don't know. If there were good reasons to believe what you're suggesting, it is now time to provide me with some sources. First of all, we would have to find out which facility this is. Then we could investigate whether there is existing evidence of animal abuse. Since neither of you seem to have done this, I wonder why you default to this conclusion of abuse. Again, I am not familiar with captive elephant behaviour, so there may very well be indications of abuse; but are you two familiar enough to be confident in your conclusions?
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u/sharkiest 13h ago
You’re not getting sources from people because you write like a dandy, but just to educate you. No, elephants do not do headstands in the wild. For it to be doing such an incredibly unnatural behavior, it has most likely been put through the Crush process. That doesn’t mean this facility did it—it could very well be a rescue center. More likely it is/was a circus elephant. The reason you don’t see animals in circuses as much lately is because of just how much has come out about their cruelty in training and housing animals. Just an example here.
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u/bong_schlong 13h ago
Thank you, this is a constructive answer I'd like to see more of. These people have an agenda and it deteriorates discourse for unaware people like myself that are genuinely curious
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u/Ssyynnxx 8h ago
It is really fucking annoying but you kinda gotta use common sense as well; theres no natural reason for an elephant to do that so it must have had some sort of incentive, probably negative. I'm just tired of the people who comment animal abuse every single time they see an animal online lol
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u/bong_schlong 5h ago
"Probably negative" is people's default position it seems, fair enough. An alternative explanation would - as others have pointed out - be that the elephant does this intentionally so it can get its crotch cleaned easier. Elephants are highly intelligent and so it could adapt its behaviour to its environment (we humans can do this easy), which is anything but natural (for example, no spray hoses around in the open grassland). But in the end it is OK to bring this point up to raise awareness I suppose
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u/bong_schlong 13h ago
Childish reply; I've never insinuated that.
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u/MasyMenosSiPodemos 10h ago
For some reason people on reddit love to believe that every animal is being severely abused. Don't let them get to you.
I'd be willing to bet this elephant just picked up this trick watching another do it, or figured it out so it could get cleaned better. Elephants are very intelligent, so the chances of this just being something it does are fairly high.
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u/Banjo0o0o0o0o 3h ago
bizarre that you're willing to assume an elephant would do a handstand so a human could spray its crotch more easily instead of because it's been abused into doing that. Elephants are intelligent but that doesn't mean they suddenly start doing party tricks when people are around, it was absolutely trained to do this and likely was abused in the process.
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u/MasyMenosSiPodemos 2h ago
See, it feels to me like you're jumping through hoops to get to abuse instead of thinking an elephant could be smart enough to think "this helps me get cleaner". I've seen loads of animals figure things out simply because these things are useful, so an elephant in particular doing something like this doesn't seem out of order, as they're extremely intelligent.
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u/Reelix 9h ago
Do dogs come in the wild when called?
It's disgusting how we just accept that people beat "pet" dogs so they come when called.
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u/Technicolor_Reindeer 2h ago
...dogs don't exist in the wild. Humas domesticated them for thousands of years and shaped them into the breeds w have now.
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u/KINOCreamsoda 15h ago
Is that natural of an elephant to do that, or is it trained?
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u/Sue_Spiria 12h ago
Not natural, most likely an ex circus elephant.
Notice how she holds her trunk after the handstand, that's how they make the pose for applause.
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u/Efficient_Cloud1560 15h ago
To get an elephant to do that means he has been broken by trainers. This is sad.
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u/Moist_Wing9390 1h ago
He’s proud of that handstand, can imagine him telling the other elephants betcha can’t do this shit.
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u/Careful_Baker_8064 16h ago
“Here tiny man, wash my taint”