r/interesting • u/gunuvim • Feb 26 '25
NATURE Magnificent elephant drinking 60L of water in seconds
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u/jkpatches Feb 26 '25
Wow, didn't know elephant tusks could criss cross like that
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u/exotics Feb 26 '25
That’s what I noticed too. Kinda neat because the elephant could just rest its trunk in the cross.
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u/BMB281 Feb 26 '25
It’s like me resting my huge penis on my sagging pants!
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u/ruthie-lynn Feb 27 '25
When it’s cold outside and I bend over with tight pants on sometimes my penis retracts into my body
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u/XDSHENANNIGANZ Feb 27 '25
Wow ok buddy, biggus dickus over there starts this convo and now your a freakin' transformer.
The hell is with people bragging all the time.
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u/Oh_Another_Thing Feb 26 '25
I seem to remember that some elephants genetically have tusks that go inward if they live in jungles so that they don't get caught in trees and vines, and others gow outward if the live on open areas because that doesn't happen. But seeing the tusks grow downward seems weird, because part of the reason to have tusks is to defend from predators coming at you.
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u/SailsTacks Feb 26 '25
Being that tusks are elongated incisors (teeth), they naturally grow down. Tusks low to the ground gives them the advantage against the predators they tower over. Tusk ends at eye level to a lion or clan of hyenas means they’ll think twice before attacking a calf in the herd.
African Savanna elephants often have a working tusk and a fighting tusk. The working tusk is more worn, because it’s often used for peeling bark off of trees, or uprooting trees and brush. The fighting tusk is kept sharp and unblemished to look intimidating. Both are used when fighting and attacking though.
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u/Dioxybenzone Feb 27 '25
Isn’t it more likely that they have a “handedness” like humans almost always have a dominant hand? I feel like they aren’t prioritizing keeping one unblemished so much as using the other out of habit
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u/SailsTacks Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25
100% agree. Very much a handedness side behavior. I filmed an older bull I named “Rusty” expertly peel the bark off of a tree with one tusk, from 40 feet away. He was old, but still going at it. They love pushing trees down.
EDIT: Fighting Tusks are a thing. Elephants are highly intelligent.
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u/Debicon Feb 26 '25
Ive just been to south africa at the Kruger National Park, and you See so many elephant herds that tear down bushes and grass plains using their Trunk like we use our hands. They get wheat bundels rolled up with the tip and only eat the top Part thats softer.they Stick it in their mouth and rip off the rootie bit of the gras with their trunk
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u/KUPA_BEAST Feb 26 '25
UNFORTUNATELY that’s because many don’t get a chance to even get that big because of poaching.
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u/MtM666 Feb 26 '25
I don't understand why they are not trimming away the tusk. The tusk is hindering the mobility of the trunk as you could see and the elephant would really have a hard time eating stuff or spraying water or dirt on itself.
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u/WREAgent364 Feb 26 '25
Yeah... That's me in the morning after a night of drinking.
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u/NonCreditableHuman Feb 26 '25
"How can I be so thirsty when I drank so much last night?"
-Me
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u/Osteo_Warrior Feb 26 '25
Get those electrolytes in you man.
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u/Truji11o Feb 26 '25
It’s what plants crave, after all.
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u/ssp25 Feb 26 '25
Like brawndo????
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u/Truji11o Feb 26 '25
Exactly! You can’t expect them to use water, like from the toilet.
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u/ssp25 Feb 26 '25
That's gross and doesn't make sense. Brawndo has electrolytes
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u/adoxographyadlibitum Feb 27 '25
Answer: Because I also ate a shitton of salty food after I got drunk
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u/Party_Gap9480 Feb 26 '25
That’s the biggest elephant I’ve ever seen
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u/RevoOps Feb 26 '25
It does seem to be drawn on a different scale.
Probably because we are used to seeing videos where the smaller asian elephant interacting with humans.
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u/SinkholeS Feb 26 '25
You've never seen the video of Thechikottukavu Ramachandran? https://imgur.com/gallery/R8WC4cz
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u/kizmitraindeer Feb 26 '25
So sad. :( 60 years??
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u/SinkholeS Feb 26 '25
Very sad. This is not a happy elephant. Seems like they parade him around. No dignity for a majestic creature.
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u/Suckmestupit Feb 26 '25
Most dangerous captive animal? By size easily but it’s that close to a packed crowd?
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u/pardybill Feb 26 '25
Yeah he’s trotted out for ceremonies. If I’m not misremembering one year he stampeded and killed like 20 people.
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u/Gh0stMan0nThird Feb 26 '25
Low key there is some degree of schadenfreude I feel when people think they have some kind of spiritual connection to an animal and it just absolutely obliterates them.
I feel bad for the kids though who don't know any better and get dragged to stuff like that.
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u/Helioplex901 Feb 27 '25
He knows it too. When deer fight, they loose their horns, it’s the same with elephants and their tusks. An elephant like that probably gets all the choice women and may have lost his tusks a time or two, but nobody who challenges him wins anymore. Could be that he is captive on a reserve with no challengers, elephants rarely fight with their own family ESPECIALLY in captivity. When he passes, there will be a worthy successor that he probably sired or grandsired that will take his place to protect and lead the herd.
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u/gravyandchickensoup Feb 26 '25
Bro, just imagine it, you snorting water up into your nose, holding it there, and then blowing your nose full of water into your mouth so that way you can drink it. What a life.
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u/ShriCamel Feb 27 '25
Was just thinking the same!
How much practice would it take not to inhale the water accidentally? I'd do it once and say "Nope, never again!"
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u/Daytona1313 Feb 26 '25
Got nothing on my dog. Can drink 1L and slop 59L all over floor, milliseconds.
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u/Weary-Wasabi1721 Feb 26 '25
Me after an afternoon nap drenched in sweat and thinking it's the next day
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u/Lifesarisksofuckit Feb 26 '25
His little eyes when he’s drinking the water are so cute!
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u/Andrey_Gusev Feb 26 '25
Welp, snot-rich water :/
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u/ic0sid0decahedr0n Feb 26 '25
Was going to say are they literally sucking the water into their nose and then shooting it into their mouth?
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u/Andrey_Gusev Feb 26 '25
Yeap, into their mouth, into baby elephants's mouth, also onto themselves as a shower.
Well, if you think about it, their nose may be the cleanest nose of land-animals since they constantly use it to pump water in and out, huh.
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u/Myrwyss Feb 26 '25
For some reason i always thought they just use the trunk like its mouth. Just suck the water in and then swallow through the nose rather than put into the mouth O.O
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u/Theslootwhisperer Feb 26 '25
Yeah. I'm 53 and I've always assumed they just straight drank through their trunks. Wtf.
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u/USbirds Feb 27 '25
This myth might be Disney's fault, because that does happen several times in Dumbo
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u/alphadoublenegative Feb 27 '25
I recently had this same moment of realization with vampires, funnily enough
Apparently their fangs were never supposed to be hollow like straws to suck up blood through. I just… assumed
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u/Janky_Pants Feb 26 '25
They say that about surfers because they constantly get salt water cycling through their nose.
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u/Starumlunsta Feb 27 '25
I watched a video from a zoo where they were testing the health of their elephants by shooting saline up their nose and then collecting it as it dribbled out. Some of it came out filthy--likely due to sucking up muddy water to throw on their backs. So their noses may actually be the dirtiest!
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u/BulbusDumbledork Feb 26 '25
imagine snorting buckets of water then projectile-blowing it into you mouth. but also your nose is your arm
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u/intergalacticskyline Feb 26 '25
1. Calculate the weight to volume ratio for the elephant:
- Elephant weight = 12,000 lbs
- Elephant drinking volume = 60 liters
Ratio = Weight / Volume Ratio = 12,000 lbs / 60 liters Ratio = 200 lbs per liter
This means for every 200 lbs of weight, the elephant can drink 1 liter of water.
2. Apply the same ratio to the human:
- Human weight = 180 lbs
- Ratio = 200 lbs per liter (same as the elephant)
We want to find the volume a human can drink. Let's set up the equation:
Ratio = Human weight / Human drinking volume
200 lbs/liter = 180 lbs / Human drinking volume
To solve for Human drinking volume, we can rearrange the equation:
Human drinking volume = 180 lbs / (200 lbs/liter) Human drinking volume = 180 / 200 liters Human drinking volume = 0.9 liters
3. Convert liters to cups:
We need to convert the human drinking volume from liters to cups. There are approximately 4.23 cups in 1 liter.
Human drinking volume in cups = 0.9 liters * 4.23 cups/liter Human drinking volume in cups = 3.807 cups
4. Round to a reasonable number of decimal places:
Since we are dealing with estimations and biological capacities, rounding to one decimal place is sufficient.
Equivalent human drinking volume in cups ≈ 3.8 cups
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u/smileonamonday Feb 26 '25
We need to convert the human drinking volume from liters to cups
Why?
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u/chiraltoad Feb 26 '25
I can drink like an elephant.
You may need to scale time per body volume too though, to be fair.
Or throat cross sectional area.
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u/Stripedpussy Feb 26 '25
Guess he didn't figure out yet that spraying 25-30 liters on tourist is way more fun
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PAUNCH Feb 26 '25
Hey that’s only 55 liters of water, I demand my remaining 5 liters
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u/Eastbound_Pachyderm Feb 26 '25
What are those weird teeth? For some reason I feel like they would make good chess pieces
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u/cconnorss Feb 26 '25
I hate that any elephant has ever been hunted. They’re such great friends.
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u/OriginalTayRoc Feb 26 '25
You could show an alien all the wacky animals of earth, and if you described an elephant afterwards they still wouldn't believe you.
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u/Suckmestupit Feb 26 '25
I’d love to know what that feels like as an elephant. Did it let out an ah when it was done??
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u/NoTop4997 Feb 26 '25
The way the trunk just lays on the tusks reminds me of an old man locking his fingers on top of his belly.
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u/Reasonable-Recipe Feb 26 '25
Good thing that fence is there to keep everyone safe. Seems sturdy enough
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u/JunketPuzzleheaded42 Feb 26 '25
I love the tiny fence to make sure the little humans don't get stepped on by mistake 😂
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u/equality-_-7-2521 Feb 26 '25
"Bruh just poor the rest of the water up my nose."
Waterboarding: not an effective means of getting an elephant to spill.
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u/Throwaway999222111 Feb 26 '25
Imagine slurping up water using your nose straw and then splooshing it into your mouth.
Yum booger water
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u/poiuy43 Feb 26 '25
I wonder if elephants ever suck too far and suck up a bunch of water into their sinuses
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u/Mossylilman Feb 26 '25
What’s the collar on the elephant for? You can see it when he wags his ears forward early in the video
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u/BAGP0I Feb 26 '25
I just think it's crazy that this thing can blow its nose and swallow at the same time.
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u/GrimGrittles Feb 26 '25
Can they mouth breath while using there trunk? Curious cause if not it's holding its breach for a decent time.
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u/physicsking Feb 26 '25
Wait until they see it come out!
Actually there's a couple good elephant videos going around right now. Does someone have the elephant farting video? Please link it below.
Nvm, found it. Enjoy the voyage.
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u/Sopht_Serve Feb 27 '25
I wonder what it feels like when they suck the water into the trunk? Like does it feel like when us humans get water in our nose or is it more of a normal feeling?
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u/leeshakoi Feb 27 '25
I always thought they can use their trunk like a straw to drink water. Is it just me?
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Feb 27 '25
This is what starts the Nursing Home Fight that kicks off the events of Water For Elephants the dude calls bullshit on carrying Water For Elephants because they need so much you have to take the elephant to the water.
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u/GeraltForOverwatch Feb 27 '25
Oh the elephant is magnificent, I do that with cum and I'm a disgusting whore...
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u/NoCreativeName2016 Feb 27 '25
Do they stick their trunk into their throat when drinking? Not only does it look like a lot of his trunk goes into his mouth, but he also has his mouth wide open while not a drop of water leaks out.
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u/handyandy314 Feb 27 '25
Can you imagine people came to watch you drink, how self conscious would you get!
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u/redactedname87 Feb 27 '25
So like would this be the equivalent of using a netipot and then drinking the water?
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u/Remarkable-Act1918 Feb 27 '25
The guy who made the title must be an American… No way that’s 60L of water
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u/felipedomf Feb 27 '25
What a disgusting show for tourists. Either the elephant has been thirsty for a while or he drinks without being thirsty
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u/bluecubano Feb 27 '25
I’m trying not to think of it spraying boogers and snot mixed with the water.
Do elephants have boogers and snot? I would think so, right?
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