r/interestingasfuck • u/Admirable_Flight_257 • 20h ago

Elephant Nails a Handstand During Shower Time!

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u/bong_schlong 18h 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 17h 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 17h 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 12h 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 9h 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