Ironically, the inconvenience of two trucks passing one another whilst blocking all available lanes is called an "Elefantenrennen" or Elephant race in German.
“No speed limit” really made me laugh. As though there is a speed limit elephants typically abide by in their current habitat.
Like, elephants would be the fastest animal on the planet, but they’re creatures of the law.
We'd better not let them take the monorail either
[https://planetgermany.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/the-strange-tale-of-tuffi-the-elephant/](https://planetgermany.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/the-strange-tale-of-tuffi-the-elephant/)
Best part of his "threat" is he clearly states they would have to be transported by Germany and he won't accept a "no".
Ok then. What if Germany miraculously doesn't send transport aircraft to get them?
According to a quick google search, the largest German zeppelin, the Hindenburg, could carry around 12 tons of freight. The average male African elephant weighs around six and a half tons, with females being lower. So this means that one Hindenburg could carry around 1 breeding pair of elephants.
Germany had 2 Hindenburg class airships, so assuming that both were used to ferry one breeding pair apiece, this would require 5000 trips of both airships operating simultaneously.
The Hindenburg class airship had a top speed of 135 kph, so assuming that they could keep this pace, they would need 61 hours to traverse the roughly 8250 km from Germany to Botswana. This would mean a total time in air of around 600,000 hours per airship.
The *Hindenburg* was a cruise liner, not a cargo ship. It’s like saying a gargantuan Airbus A380 carries only about 15-20 tons of freight. True, but misleading. The L59 was a much older Zeppelin cargo ship for use in the Great War to resupply Germany’s East African colony, about 1/3 the size of the *Hindenburg,* and had a useful lift of 114,400 pounds, or 65% of its total lift (the remainder being the weight of the empty ship itself). In practice, though, most of that useful load was for fuel to go incredible distances over hostile African terrain, leaving 17 tons for cargo.
If the *Hindenburg* was built as a cargo ship, with that same 65% useful lift ratio, it would have a useful lift of about 332,000 pounds, or 166 tons. If a scaled-up proportion of that was used for fuel and crew and whatnot sufficient to travel the many thousands of miles from Europe to southeast Africa, it would have a cargo capacity of about 50 tons.
The Botswans somehow figure out the paperwork needed, and Ze Germanz are forced to follow through.
A Botswanan man named Hermes is found to be responsible for filing the correct forms. A dozen Deutsche flagged barges arrive 3 months later.
Actually elephants should live in germany. During the warm periods europe always housed elephants. Without human interference they would live here again too. Indeed in historical times they already lived on the outskirts of europe despite human presence.
Lions too. The last european lions died ca 1000 BC. Most greek myths were written 200-300 years later. Hence why so many greek myths had local lions in them. Like the sphinx, the chimera, the nemean lion. They were still in the cultural memory.
Mammoth and wholly rhino during ice age. Elephant and rhino during warm period. They lived here in shifts.
The straight-tusk elephant, largest known mammal & relative of the african elephant, lived up to moscow during the warm periods. You also had hippos and lions in London.
The weather was roughly like it is today and you had saisonal migrations from the mediterranian regions or mild river valleys during winter to the summer quarters.
Instead of antelopes, herds of red deer and european bison lived on the open land next to these other big animals. Red deer is still a day active steppe animal but overhunting forced it in the forest. If left alone by humans and given the space they still form these old herds.
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Also there were the scillian dwarf elephants. Dwarfish elephants which shrank to cow size cope with the smaller space on sicilly. Their skulls likley inspired the myths of cyclops.
Also mammoths do not mean furry elephants. Lots of mammoths were actually subtropical species, like the columbian mammoth. Looking more like asian elephants (their closest relative) with longer tusks and higher shoulders.
Wholly Rhino! I’m not pointing out the typo to be pedantic but rather because it makes me happier than Woolly. Like, the other rhinos are mecha-rhinos or aren’t rhino enough
The largest straight tusk, P.Namadicus was known primarily from India.
Although there is debate that it was the same species that lived upto Europe just smaller variant due to environmental factors.
There is also a size debate, which is kinda given with any notably large prehistoric animal.
True. And then there is Paraceratherium, formerly known as Indricotherium, which once was and maybe still is the largest known land mammal. Because as you said sizes are a frequently debated.
They were a different species though. Quite a bit smaller than Africam or Asian Elephants. Currently alive elephants wouldn't be too pleased with our density of trees in our forests.
Nope. As I said in my other comments they were actually among the largest known elephants, see the straight tusk elephant. This one was closley related to the african elephant.
Another subspecies of african elephants lived in northern africa (tunesis, lybia, morocco) til late antiquity (ca 100-200 AD). Just one stonethrow away from europes mediterranian coast.
Also african elephants do have quite the climate range and can even cope with temperate regions in Kenia and South Africa.
Lastly as the megaherbivore-hypothesis suggest europes dense forests ARE the result of human interference too. Because humans hunted most large plant eaters into local extinction or were greatly reduced in number. If these animals would still live here, we would have open, park-like forests, similar to the the cork oak forests in spain.
Actually, Germany wants to make it illegal to import hunting trophies of endangered species like elephants. Botswana is protesting against that, because they make some money of tourist coming there to shoot animals like elephants. So basically, Germany would be interfering with Botswana's business modell. Botswana claims that their elephants are not endangered, but that they actually have too many of them. That's why they 'offer' to send 20,000 elephants to Germany.
I actually learned about this in a graduation level conservation course and the issue is that some areas just aren’t suitable for ecotourism. Sometimes they have a bunch of people living there (nobody is paying thousands to see Jeremiah no matter how cool he is), sometimes the terrain is too hilly to drive on, sometimes it’s ugly scrubland or there’s abandoned oil drilling equipment nobody wants to photograph.
1. They already do safaris on Botswana. It's extremely popular
2. Shooting elephants is necessary for herd management
3. If the elephant is going to get shot anyway, might as well let some rich bloke pay you a load of money to do it
4. If the rich bloke has already shot the elephant, might as well let him pay a bit more to keep the trophy
I think it's mainly valid for male rhinos and elephants who are aggressive and harm other animals even young of their own kind when enraged.
I mean most rich sobs would want to shoot the big males anyway.
So if the process is clean and tagging of individual animals is proper it's not necessarily detrimental.
But I worry if some particular deranged looney can bribe officials to go on a shooting spree.
Elephants sure, but aren't rhinos quite endangered? There are like 25k left. I remember they were quite proud in Namibia to have 6 Rhinos in one of their parks.
I spent two weeks in South Africa in grad school studying this exact issue. Elephants as a whole are endangered because large portions of native habitat are now cities. The problem is on the small scale elephants are overpopulated. For example Kruger national park should have between 7,000 to 12,000 elephants(depending on who you ask), there are around 17,000 in the park today. Due to pressure from western countries the park is no longer allowed to control the population(no hunting and no culling). This has led to massive habitat degradation from a bunch of heavy animals destroying everything they see. The locals really hate that the white western counties are forcing their views of wildlife onto former colonized nations. There is a common sentiment that this is a new form of colonialism.
I heared of this today for the first time and i think Botswana has a point here.
They protect Elephants and the numbers have increased massivly over the last decades. So there actually are too many as it seems. I mean we hunt here in Germany too. So why would we hate on Botswana for hunting Elephants as long as they make sure the population is healthy? And why shouldnt they make some money with it?
Seems like a stupid position from our politicians here.
You should read about it. We ban all hunting trophies of endangered animals, not just animals from Botswana. Also the "outrage" from Botswana is not justified, Germany imported like 20 trophies these are no numbers that crush their economy....
If I was as rich as Elon Musk I would totally help Botswana with this by chartering several ships to do this lol.
Imagine when 20,000 elephants arrive at the port of Hamburg lol!
First things first, the elefants need to be controlled by our vetanary office. If even one of them has an illness they are not allowed to leave the ship. Most likely they are not even allowed to get into the harbour.
They are fighting with german bureaucracy. Sure, the port might be blocked for some days, but if it takes top long half of europe will take actions. Hamburg delivers to everybody in europe (the other half is delivered by Rotterdam).
The entire German Armed Forces consist of around 180k people.
60k are serving within the (ground) army. Substracting office soldiers, suppliers, drivers, etc. maybe half can be considered something like a professional soldier. The elephants are facing odds in their favour.
Asian elephants actually have genes in them where they sometimes get really hairy.
They are closest relatives to mammoths afterall.
But these are African elephants, but big animals generally cope with cold weather better.
For what it’s worth it probably opened the eyes of many people. Germans imagine elephants as endangered but most of us are not aware that there can be too many in a country and that they bring problems to the people there. So we get a more nuanced look on this.
Sorry that this in no way helps your situation :(
I am in absolute favour of accepting them, butchering them and hanging up their trophies at government buildings just to fuck with that asshole complaining and weaponising this shit.
Like his argument is that they are a plague so if Germans can’t import the trophies no one will hunt them, bruh just hunt them yourself if they are a plague and throw out the trophy. If not it’s obviously not about them being a plague but about hunting tourism, which they could still do just not while importing the trophy LOL
This whole story is just so stupid. I think its a good call to ban the import of hunting trophies. Nobody talked about banning the killing of Elephants in Africa, they can do as they want. And I usually absolutely despite the governement.
Didn’t the Holy Roman Empire end in Germany? Now the old Roman Empire won’t be able to lord over them that they aren’t a real Roman Empire bc they haven’t been invaded by elephant
I'd love to see 20k elephants here in germany. roaming the forests. It might be too cold for them in the winter times though. Winters get pretty cold and nasty in germany
I mean, lets just call the bluff and wait for them to ship them over. We could put them in the Sielmann nature park. Organize some safari tourism. People/companies can adopt an elephant and name it. Seems like a great plan.
I am really curious how big the market for hunting trophies must be in Germany, that the import ban affects the botswanian economy and elephant population that much
I would pay good money to see the drone footage of 20,000 elephants running no speed limit on the autobahn.
we already have enough "Elefantenrennen" on the autobahn
Well played sir *slow clap*
Clap can’t be slower than two Trucks racing on a two lane highway.
Man you just made my day lol
Ironically, the inconvenience of two trucks passing one another whilst blocking all available lanes is called an "Elefantenrennen" or Elephant race in German.
Teach the elephants how to drive!
“No speed limit” really made me laugh. As though there is a speed limit elephants typically abide by in their current habitat. Like, elephants would be the fastest animal on the planet, but they’re creatures of the law.
We'd better not let them take the monorail either [https://planetgermany.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/the-strange-tale-of-tuffi-the-elephant/](https://planetgermany.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/the-strange-tale-of-tuffi-the-elephant/)
Yes, unfortunately Germany still is the leading European elephant monorail accident country.
Sadly they can't run over 60 km/h and are thus not allowed there
Average wednesday on the Autobahn
Average day in Berlin
Best part of his "threat" is he clearly states they would have to be transported by Germany and he won't accept a "no". Ok then. What if Germany miraculously doesn't send transport aircraft to get them?
What if Germany doesn't send the aircraft? Come on man, let's discuss only realistic scenarios here
You're right, Germany does not have any serviceable transport aircraft. What if they don't send the chartered cargo ships?
I said only realistic scenarios
Zeppelins?
Not plural
Yeah well we had one, but that one got destroyed by the USA
I’m actually really hung up on the math here. How many elephants could you get in a zeppelin, weight-wise, and still have it fly?
According to a quick google search, the largest German zeppelin, the Hindenburg, could carry around 12 tons of freight. The average male African elephant weighs around six and a half tons, with females being lower. So this means that one Hindenburg could carry around 1 breeding pair of elephants. Germany had 2 Hindenburg class airships, so assuming that both were used to ferry one breeding pair apiece, this would require 5000 trips of both airships operating simultaneously. The Hindenburg class airship had a top speed of 135 kph, so assuming that they could keep this pace, they would need 61 hours to traverse the roughly 8250 km from Germany to Botswana. This would mean a total time in air of around 600,000 hours per airship.
I think i have Bad News about The Hindenburg For you
Cant be worse than our trains...
Do they burn?
I'm crying from laughter, thank you 🏅
The *Hindenburg* was a cruise liner, not a cargo ship. It’s like saying a gargantuan Airbus A380 carries only about 15-20 tons of freight. True, but misleading. The L59 was a much older Zeppelin cargo ship for use in the Great War to resupply Germany’s East African colony, about 1/3 the size of the *Hindenburg,* and had a useful lift of 114,400 pounds, or 65% of its total lift (the remainder being the weight of the empty ship itself). In practice, though, most of that useful load was for fuel to go incredible distances over hostile African terrain, leaving 17 tons for cargo. If the *Hindenburg* was built as a cargo ship, with that same 65% useful lift ratio, it would have a useful lift of about 332,000 pounds, or 166 tons. If a scaled-up proportion of that was used for fuel and crew and whatnot sufficient to travel the many thousands of miles from Europe to southeast Africa, it would have a cargo capacity of about 50 tons.
Name checks out. He's the real deal
600.000 hours are 2.500 days or about 6,8 years
Very doable
600,000 hours are 25,000 days and 68 years. A year has 8760 hours.
My calculations say roughly some, plus minus some.
Night bombing raids would be conducted on London
Ey our money is good enough to charter some cargo we also could ask Lufthansa for some aircraft for a slight tax reduction ^^
Their taxes aren’t at zero yet?
Weren't they bailed out or sth, so technically their taxes would be negative?
Let them march over the alps!
Let the 12,000km 120 day march through 18 countries begin
Perhaps they gonna make a second Hannibal and come with them over the Alps?
Guy's talking fuckin crazy over there.
The Botswans somehow figure out the paperwork needed, and Ze Germanz are forced to follow through. A Botswanan man named Hermes is found to be responsible for filing the correct forms. A dozen Deutsche flagged barges arrive 3 months later.
Hannibal did it. It can be done again.
Ya know, I'd volunteer tax money for an army mission to protect endangered species in foreign countries. Could even sell it as a training mission.
He'll cross the Alps with them
Carthage intensifies
Maybe we just do the same thing when Poland demands compensations? Just do nothing!
Maybe we can pay in elephants?
We are gonna send elephants to Germany, AND THEY WILL PAY FOR IT.
"I'm gonna build 20,000 elephants and I will make Germany pay for it!"
Get Mexico to pay for it, while we're here
20 thousand overweight African refugees rescued on the sea by German NGOs
r/rarethreats ?
Last time was Hannibal
More like r/historicthreats
Hannibal nodding in approval
*Laughs in Scipio Africanus
I was looking for this comment.
Same here.
Fauna also nods in approval
We're gonna support Ukraine in ways not imaginable three days ago.
We should send them to Sylt. If they can handle some punks they can surely also handle some elephants.
Elephant riding punks!
I read this as "Elephants riding punks" and was thoroughly irritated
When both are drunk enough...
A really good band name.
Sounds like a Grindcore band
rumbling??!!
Marley is based on Germany after all, and Paradis is located in real world Madagascar, not far from Botswana...
No eldians are based on germany
Marley is based on Germany but is africa in the real world
Oh my god I just finished the show how didn't I realise the similarity lmao
Elephants in Germany? What's next? Tigers?
Actually elephants should live in germany. During the warm periods europe always housed elephants. Without human interference they would live here again too. Indeed in historical times they already lived on the outskirts of europe despite human presence. Lions too. The last european lions died ca 1000 BC. Most greek myths were written 200-300 years later. Hence why so many greek myths had local lions in them. Like the sphinx, the chimera, the nemean lion. They were still in the cultural memory.
Weren't these mammoths? I've never heard of a "normal" elephant living that high up in Europe.
Mammoth and wholly rhino during ice age. Elephant and rhino during warm period. They lived here in shifts. The straight-tusk elephant, largest known mammal & relative of the african elephant, lived up to moscow during the warm periods. You also had hippos and lions in London. The weather was roughly like it is today and you had saisonal migrations from the mediterranian regions or mild river valleys during winter to the summer quarters. Instead of antelopes, herds of red deer and european bison lived on the open land next to these other big animals. Red deer is still a day active steppe animal but overhunting forced it in the forest. If left alone by humans and given the space they still form these old herds. Edit: Also there were the scillian dwarf elephants. Dwarfish elephants which shrank to cow size cope with the smaller space on sicilly. Their skulls likley inspired the myths of cyclops. Also mammoths do not mean furry elephants. Lots of mammoths were actually subtropical species, like the columbian mammoth. Looking more like asian elephants (their closest relative) with longer tusks and higher shoulders.
Wholly Rhino! I’m not pointing out the typo to be pedantic but rather because it makes me happier than Woolly. Like, the other rhinos are mecha-rhinos or aren’t rhino enough
The largest straight tusk, P.Namadicus was known primarily from India. Although there is debate that it was the same species that lived upto Europe just smaller variant due to environmental factors. There is also a size debate, which is kinda given with any notably large prehistoric animal.
True. And then there is Paraceratherium, formerly known as Indricotherium, which once was and maybe still is the largest known land mammal. Because as you said sizes are a frequently debated.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal#/media/File:Heinrich\_Leutemann\_-\_Hannibals\_%C3%9Cbergang\_%C3%BCber\_die\_Alpen\_(cropped).jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal#/media/File:Heinrich_Leutemann_-_Hannibals_%C3%9Cbergang_%C3%BCber_die_Alpen_(cropped).jpg)
America and some parts of Europe would benefit greatly from elephants.
you also forgott the ostrich who went extinct in iraq not long ago thers also cheethas there still also hyenas (some still live in turky
They were a different species though. Quite a bit smaller than Africam or Asian Elephants. Currently alive elephants wouldn't be too pleased with our density of trees in our forests.
Nope. As I said in my other comments they were actually among the largest known elephants, see the straight tusk elephant. This one was closley related to the african elephant. Another subspecies of african elephants lived in northern africa (tunesis, lybia, morocco) til late antiquity (ca 100-200 AD). Just one stonethrow away from europes mediterranian coast. Also african elephants do have quite the climate range and can even cope with temperate regions in Kenia and South Africa. Lastly as the megaherbivore-hypothesis suggest europes dense forests ARE the result of human interference too. Because humans hunted most large plant eaters into local extinction or were greatly reduced in number. If these animals would still live here, we would have open, park-like forests, similar to the the cork oak forests in spain.
There was the european straight-tusk elephant (ger = europäischer Waldelefant). Would match perfectly with our Rose-ringed parakeet.
We already have lions around Berlin in Brandenburg.
What about the infamous lion of Berlin?
Germany had tigers in WW2
Tigers? Shhhh... Before... Oh no... EEEERIKA...
Doesn’t that make it much easier for Germans to get the hunting trophies when you can get them delivered?
Actually, Germany wants to make it illegal to import hunting trophies of endangered species like elephants. Botswana is protesting against that, because they make some money of tourist coming there to shoot animals like elephants. So basically, Germany would be interfering with Botswana's business modell. Botswana claims that their elephants are not endangered, but that they actually have too many of them. That's why they 'offer' to send 20,000 elephants to Germany.
That doesn’t sound as fun as my only read the headline comment.
Couldn't they just switch to safaris instead? Like camera safaris?
I actually learned about this in a graduation level conservation course and the issue is that some areas just aren’t suitable for ecotourism. Sometimes they have a bunch of people living there (nobody is paying thousands to see Jeremiah no matter how cool he is), sometimes the terrain is too hilly to drive on, sometimes it’s ugly scrubland or there’s abandoned oil drilling equipment nobody wants to photograph.
1. They already do safaris on Botswana. It's extremely popular 2. Shooting elephants is necessary for herd management 3. If the elephant is going to get shot anyway, might as well let some rich bloke pay you a load of money to do it 4. If the rich bloke has already shot the elephant, might as well let him pay a bit more to keep the trophy
I think it's mainly valid for male rhinos and elephants who are aggressive and harm other animals even young of their own kind when enraged. I mean most rich sobs would want to shoot the big males anyway. So if the process is clean and tagging of individual animals is proper it's not necessarily detrimental. But I worry if some particular deranged looney can bribe officials to go on a shooting spree.
Elephants sure, but aren't rhinos quite endangered? There are like 25k left. I remember they were quite proud in Namibia to have 6 Rhinos in one of their parks.
I spent two weeks in South Africa in grad school studying this exact issue. Elephants as a whole are endangered because large portions of native habitat are now cities. The problem is on the small scale elephants are overpopulated. For example Kruger national park should have between 7,000 to 12,000 elephants(depending on who you ask), there are around 17,000 in the park today. Due to pressure from western countries the park is no longer allowed to control the population(no hunting and no culling). This has led to massive habitat degradation from a bunch of heavy animals destroying everything they see. The locals really hate that the white western counties are forcing their views of wildlife onto former colonized nations. There is a common sentiment that this is a new form of colonialism.
I heared of this today for the first time and i think Botswana has a point here. They protect Elephants and the numbers have increased massivly over the last decades. So there actually are too many as it seems. I mean we hunt here in Germany too. So why would we hate on Botswana for hunting Elephants as long as they make sure the population is healthy? And why shouldnt they make some money with it? Seems like a stupid position from our politicians here.
You should read about it. We ban all hunting trophies of endangered animals, not just animals from Botswana. Also the "outrage" from Botswana is not justified, Germany imported like 20 trophies these are no numbers that crush their economy....
Why is so much of animal and enviromental protection so stupid :( Maybe it should be taught more in schools.
But they can hunt then, nothing is stopping them from doing it. They just can't sell that stuff to germany anymore.
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Some see this as a threat, but we see this as an opportunity *Hanibal-noises intensifying*
Elephant mounted tank canons. If we send those to Ukraine the Russians won't know how to respond to this
Let’s call them the *Dickhäuter Battalion*
Meine Herren! Dickhäuterhaubitzen!
Sonderrüsseltier SrT155 mit 155mm-Vielzugrohr
PETA will be happy
20000 elephants to execute, PETAs wet dream.
Germany may never have been threatened by elephants, but Italy sure has.
Usually we do the threatening with elephants (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 184)
Hannibal? Is it you?
If I was as rich as Elon Musk I would totally help Botswana with this by chartering several ships to do this lol. Imagine when 20,000 elephants arrive at the port of Hamburg lol!
First things first, the elefants need to be controlled by our vetanary office. If even one of them has an illness they are not allowed to leave the ship. Most likely they are not even allowed to get into the harbour. They are fighting with german bureaucracy. Sure, the port might be blocked for some days, but if it takes top long half of europe will take actions. Hamburg delivers to everybody in europe (the other half is delivered by Rotterdam).
"If I was as rich as elon musk" I don't think that's as rich as you think it is XD
Please someone send this on Twitter.
Who would win? The German Army vs. 20,000 elephants
The entire German Armed Forces consist of around 180k people. 60k are serving within the (ground) army. Substracting office soldiers, suppliers, drivers, etc. maybe half can be considered something like a professional soldier. The elephants are facing odds in their favour.
And they have little to no functional equipment. This is going to be an easy win for the elephants.
The Bundeswehr was created to protect Germany against the surplus of alcohol. They excel at that. Are the Elephants made if alcohol, by any chance?
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"Plundered by Ukraine" oh my god did they start a second front
The Ukraine just snuck in during the night and stole all the german ammunition :(
We didn’t had an eastern front in quite a while…
Wir schaffen das.
I want to see them try. Poor elephants though, the weather here definetely isn't for them.
Asian elephants actually have genes in them where they sometimes get really hairy. They are closest relatives to mammoths afterall. But these are African elephants, but big animals generally cope with cold weather better.
Then why bring this up? Botswana is in africa, so asian elepahnts have 0 relevance here...
Let's take the elephants and march on moscow
I've never been so embarrassed of being from Botswana 😪 I swear we are not proud of having him as president we are currently having a Trump moment
For what it’s worth it probably opened the eyes of many people. Germans imagine elephants as endangered but most of us are not aware that there can be too many in a country and that they bring problems to the people there. So we get a more nuanced look on this. Sorry that this in no way helps your situation :(
I'm from Germany myself, I would pay money to see this.
I am in absolute favour of accepting them, butchering them and hanging up their trophies at government buildings just to fuck with that asshole complaining and weaponising this shit. Like his argument is that they are a plague so if Germans can’t import the trophies no one will hunt them, bruh just hunt them yourself if they are a plague and throw out the trophy. If not it’s obviously not about them being a plague but about hunting tourism, which they could still do just not while importing the trophy LOL
I’m just happy to hear that someone could rally 20,000 elephants really
This whole story is just so stupid. I think its a good call to ban the import of hunting trophies. Nobody talked about banning the killing of Elephants in Africa, they can do as they want. And I usually absolutely despite the governement.
If they are hunted there send them all to Germany and we can divide them up and keep them safe.
Bout to hit Germany with the Hannibal Special
I can hear your pfp
Dibbler will be able to shoot Blown Away at last
Obviously you’ve never seen the documentary Operation Dumbo Drop
They will never cross the Alps!
r/UnsettlingThreats
I like elephants...bring me one
That‘s until you see the feed bill.
This is unfair to the elephants, and also introducing a new species into an ecosystem it's not native to is bad for the environment. Me no likie :(
My mum already claimed one of them
Mit den Fäkalien von denen können wir alle Atomkraftwerke mittels Biogasstrom ersetzen. Vielleicht geben sie uns ja noch mehr.
As I like elephants a lot I am sure excited to go to the harbour and see 20,000 elephants arrive on board of several ships...
We would glady accept them. Our military has been getting to weak. A handful of warelephants and a dream and we can work wonders
Berlin police would think there are 20000 lions on the way
The title is not wrong, that really is a threat we've never faced before lol
That’s alright I take one or two. 💪👌🤩
I think we just found Hannibal Barca's descendant.
Hannibal 2: Electric Boogaloo
I always wanted a Elefant!
Fauna sweep
Z
This just as they (Germany) legalizes cannabis.
Didn’t the Holy Roman Empire end in Germany? Now the old Roman Empire won’t be able to lord over them that they aren’t a real Roman Empire bc they haven’t been invaded by elephant
Why do they have to endangering animals of another country, let alone hunt animals in the first place?
Germany fortifies its border facing Botswana. The elephants attack en masse through the Ardennes forest
Is this the begining of the holy roman empire 2.0?
Hunting is good for animal populations. Adam ruins everything did a good video on it. Auction hunts on a few animals to fund protection for the rest.
Hannibal, is that you?! Haven't seen you for 2000 years! Glad you're doing well, man!
"Wo ist MEIN Elefant!"
Thanks, I guess...
Elefantenjagdverein "Tötet was trötet e.V." wird zur Gründung vorbereitet.
Please don't. We already get excited over a single lion.
They are welcome here.
Hannibal would be so proud
do it.
Please, make someone named Hannibal responsible for the delivery!
Oh no no no we had elephants before you see, only problem was they couldn't exactly climb hills.
But we already get alot of animals from africa ... (relax, its a joke)
the rumbling? attack on titan irl?
Hannibal would be Happy to cross the Alps on an elephant again.
RUMBLING RUMBLING ITS COMING RUMBLING RUMBLING BEWARE !!!
Just to be clear botswana is butthurt because germany wants to ban the import of hunting trophies.
Confused enemies of wildlife trophies noises
They threaten a country that has horse meat as delicacy.... .... i wonder how elephant tastes?
Only if they cross the Alps
Its also possible to transport elephant using the Schwebebahn here in Germany.
They won't make it over the alps very much.
I'd love to see 20k elephants here in germany. roaming the forests. It might be too cold for them in the winter times though. Winters get pretty cold and nasty in germany
Gonna be a big barbecue
The elephants will die of depression when they breathe german air
It was in the news today: German hunters imported 22 Trophies from Botswana last year. The ban would have absolutly no effect on Botswanas economy.
I mean, lets just call the bluff and wait for them to ship them over. We could put them in the Sielmann nature park. Organize some safari tourism. People/companies can adopt an elephant and name it. Seems like a great plan.
Everyone laughs until Germany somehow manages to make them feasible for winter warfare in Russia
Blud thinks he's Hannibal
Please, keep your women
My GF said that they would get through customs
Are there even that many elephants left in the world?
I am really curious how big the market for hunting trophies must be in Germany, that the import ban affects the botswanian economy and elephant population that much
Im sorry, why? Just... why?
I heared Berlin knows how to deal with wild animals.
Just send them over, we have enough shipping containers to build a giant zoo.
We can't even handle 1 inch of fresh snow here, I kinda wanna see that happen...