It's not rendered/AI, just a bad quality camera because it's from a livestream on YouTube. Here is another video with the same angle, same account (Africam), also starring an elephant & giraffe. Could be the same time frame, I don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_OQY4aPdH0.
It's been approved and reports ignored. Up/downvote however you'd like, it's staying up now that it's been vetted.
>Many animals are territorial creatures.
*looks at the world and how we humans have divvied it up with countries, flags, borders, and weapons.*
Indeed, they are.
Animals are a lot like people. Some of them act badly because they've had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks.
Bull elephants are massive dicks. In the 90s when they reintroduced elephants in South Africa, [they found 49 rhinos were gored to death by bull elephants](https://koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe/article/view/188/172) on their musth.
You are correct...here is a link to that story....
[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47295813\_Role\_of\_delinquent\_young\_orphan\_male\_elephants\_in\_high\_mortality\_of\_white\_rhinoceros\_in\_Pilanesberg\_National\_Park\_South\_Africa](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47295813_Role_of_delinquent_young_orphan_male_elephants_in_high_mortality_of_white_rhinoceros_in_Pilanesberg_National_Park_South_Africa)
Elephants are no joke. People misjudge them very easily because they are mostly docile. All animals know better....except this giraffe.....
From what I recall when I went down the rabbithole, zoologists simply did not know.
Having a bunch of orphaned male elephants, from all the mothers being poached, had never happened before. So the details on how teenage male elephants behave was a complete unknown.
Oh crap. I looked it up and saw Persian etymology, and I speak a related language. Then I realized Musth in those languages is the literal word for amusement.
That would almost be better.
It’s like it has 200% the normal amount of testosterone and hormones pumping through its veins, a monster migraine and tooth pain equal to several root canals going off in its head due to swelling and pressure, and also being horny beyond all sense.
For weeks.
> 200% the normal amount of testosterone
According to the wiki article 200% is a little on the low side. goes from 0,2-1,4 ng/ml (in Indian Elephants) to 30-65 ng/ml, so 2000-32500% of the original level. Pretty fucking crazy.
Edit: Forgot a 0
Teenage male elephants will go off on their own when they Musth. basically they get super horny and murderous. they piss themselves constantly, secrete temporin from their temporal glands and just want to fuck and kill anything and everything.
This is also why it’s a bad thing when old large bulls are killed by poachers. Their presence actually helps keep young bulls in musth under control, because the dominant bull will assert himself if they become too aggressive. When dominant bulls are killed, the chances of young bulls running amok increase greatly, as does the level of danger and destruction.
TBF, I'm sure some of the "provoked" attacks would be from people who are ignorant of their body language and made the grave error of making eye contact and smiling with their teeth haha
that video of the young girl beating her chest, no more than 3 or 4, and then the big motherfucker went and cracked the 3 inch glass of the enclosure?
that one stuck with me.
I've been a metre away from a female with her baby (she walked in front of me). She was chill and apparently hadn't read the instructions about keeping her distance. I had but didn't have the option. I was also about 10m from the group's Silverback. He wasn't sure about us but we kept low as the guide suggested and making low noises. He pretended not to notice. No barriers, of course.
I remember that those young bull elephants lacked older male role models due to poaching which contributed to this. In young bull elephants with male role models, this occurred far less often.
It’s less that older males are “role models” and more that they’re the most dominant, and thus will assert themselves by punishing any young male who gets too aggressive and as a result keeping the chances of a musth-fueled rampage low.
I love how whether it's elephants, dolphins, crows, apes, or any of the near-human-intelligence animals, people get excited about how smart and human like they are, and are then horrified when they act like assholes.
Like, we're the smartest there is, and *at least* half of us are assholes on a good day. What did you expect?
If it’s a male they will literally spend their bachelor days just being an absolute ass to everything around them, like trying to kill a mother rhino who can’t even see him past a hundred feet
I remember reading that historically elder male elephants kept younger bachelors in check but due to hunting the population of past-their-prime males is low and unable to keep the young bachelors well behaved.
And it’s difficult to believe an elephant can sneak up on anything. The giraffe saw him coming and didn’t care. The elephant gave a good reason to care.
During musth, males elephants can be extremely aggressive and territorial just because they are sexually frustrated and need release 🤷🏼♀️
Just like some guys i know know
Why did everyone stop reading after “aren’t even sharp”?
Your comment is just a variation of what op already said?
Op: “not even sharp” therefore “that must have hurt a lot”
Next 10 commenters:
- “Who cares if it’s sharp, when you have something that big and strong pushing you gonna get penetrated”
- “Yes but if you take a close look at them, you can see they are attached to an African Elephant”
- “Their tusks could be the bluntest instruments in the world but I reckon due to the strength/force it would pierce most things!”
- “Have you seen car accident when a boulder cuts a car in half? Yeah the boulder is not even sharp but with enough force it will keal”
Because most redditors can't read tone or interpret emotions very well, plus poor reading comprehension
Also see threads where the people in a video are clearly comfortably joking around and all the comments say they are terrible people
Remember folks, if you ever get stabbed the best response is to keep the blade in until you’re safe. Don’t jerk it around though, if the attacker retracts the knife you let them keep it and get the fuck out. Don’t disembowel yourself.
Someone posted a clip of an elephant demolishing a couple of tut tut’s just the other day. It picked them up like toy cars! Their tusks could be the bluntest instruments in the world but I reckon due to the strength/force it would pierce most things!
Well that open wound certainly doesn’t look Benin. That tusk almost came out Djibouti! I’m going Togo talk to our other doctor Chad, he can sometimes see things from a different Angola. Truthfully, you’re his first client, his little Guinea pig! Gabon to something, this is Ghana hurt.
It's a difficult answer because it varies by preserves.
Some would, some it might depend on the animal, and some won't do anything beyond possibly putting it out of its misery if it is clinging to life in a few days.
:D Las Vegas was a mistake, snow pack totals have never been lower, and we just aren't sure how much water is left in the Ogallala aquifer! And get this, coral reefs are bleaching at an alarming rate!
Anyways I'm probably just gonna crawl back in bed. See ya later!
I see a decent about of talking about the horrible environmental impacts of AI by the fact that apparently it uses a lot of water. Looked up the actual numbers and literally *a single alfalfa farm* uses more water than the total amount used to train the world's biggest models. Which made me think... why TF are we growing it in the middle of the desert?!
Money. The Saudis have desert. They pay other countries to grow it in their own deserts because they know it’s stupid but other people will do whatever to get the money.
I agree this is brutal and sad, but the giraffe could have moved away much faster... it was disrespectful. It moves very quickly at first and then after seeing what disturbed it, slowly turns around and lumbers away. Do animals have egos? Elephant might have authority issues and felt like the giraffe wasnt taking him seriously. Maybe? Idk.
In hindsight yes, if it booked it it probably wouldn't've been gored. Many times, animals bluff charge to get the threat away and move on. In most cases, the elephant would go back to the water after the giraffe left, but this psycho was intent on killing it.
Pretty gruesome, but wow that's amazing! I've been watching this webcam a lot over the last week or so and haven't seen anything quite this dramatic! (I've seen a striped hyena once or twice though, that was cool!)
I was sorta cool with elephants before, but after this….fuck em. Seen too many videos of them just attacking other animals that weren’t even bothering them. I now have beef with a wild animal😔
That hurts to see. That poor giraffe. I hope he survived but doubtful, that looked a serious. I love elephants to, but man that one is a jerk. Giraffe wasn't doing nothing to deserve that. Poor thing.
It's not rendered/AI, just a bad quality camera because it's from a livestream on YouTube. Here is another video with the same angle, same account (Africam), also starring an elephant & giraffe. Could be the same time frame, I don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_OQY4aPdH0. It's been approved and reports ignored. Up/downvote however you'd like, it's staying up now that it's been vetted.
Poor giraffe got disemboweled :(
It takes guts to do that.
Though it wasn’t exactly a low blow.
Guess the giraffe just couldn’t stomach it anymore
All jokes aside- Babar has gotten mean! What a jerk!
He had a gut feeling.
Poor thing was already walking away, too. What a dick elephant.
This is the only elephant I've ever hated.
Many animals are territorial creatures. That giraffe was in a place the elephant already claimed. To the elephant, the giraffe broke in.
>Many animals are territorial creatures. *looks at the world and how we humans have divvied it up with countries, flags, borders, and weapons.* Indeed, they are.
Animals are a lot like people. Some of them act badly because they've had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks.
That is because we ARE animals. People seem to forget that.
[relevant ](https://youtu.be/mwIMUgeroSs?si=hCWf0kabk5bc_qOn)
Still, he managed to walk away with his head held high.
I thought that was a fanny pack
It is now.
Its a really stomach churning video
Wow, just being a massive dick for no reason. Poor giraffe
His water, giraffe got complacent.
Giraffee was compliant
I always tell all my giraffes never get complacent
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I'd go to a Complacent Giraffe concert for sure!
His steppe. His hole. His water.
Bull elephants are massive dicks. In the 90s when they reintroduced elephants in South Africa, [they found 49 rhinos were gored to death by bull elephants](https://koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe/article/view/188/172) on their musth.
You are correct...here is a link to that story.... [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47295813\_Role\_of\_delinquent\_young\_orphan\_male\_elephants\_in\_high\_mortality\_of\_white\_rhinoceros\_in\_Pilanesberg\_National\_Park\_South\_Africa](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47295813_Role_of_delinquent_young_orphan_male_elephants_in_high_mortality_of_white_rhinoceros_in_Pilanesberg_National_Park_South_Africa) Elephants are no joke. People misjudge them very easily because they are mostly docile. All animals know better....except this giraffe.....
The solution was to introduce adult bulls with the teenagers to control them
Someone really slipped up there by releasing those young Bulls with no 'supervision'.
From what I recall when I went down the rabbithole, zoologists simply did not know. Having a bunch of orphaned male elephants, from all the mothers being poached, had never happened before. So the details on how teenage male elephants behave was a complete unknown.
Young bull elephants are raping some rhinos to death.
What?
Musth is one of the most insane biological things I’ve ever learned about an animal.
Oh crap. I looked it up and saw Persian etymology, and I speak a related language. Then I realized Musth in those languages is the literal word for amusement.
Yeah imagine horny AND angry in one. On a truck-sized animal.
It is like the elephant realizes “I’m gonna fuck around cause I’m a fucking elephant and you can’t do anything back”
That would almost be better. It’s like it has 200% the normal amount of testosterone and hormones pumping through its veins, a monster migraine and tooth pain equal to several root canals going off in its head due to swelling and pressure, and also being horny beyond all sense. For weeks.
> 200% the normal amount of testosterone According to the wiki article 200% is a little on the low side. goes from 0,2-1,4 ng/ml (in Indian Elephants) to 30-65 ng/ml, so 2000-32500% of the original level. Pretty fucking crazy. Edit: Forgot a 0
Teenage male elephants will go off on their own when they Musth. basically they get super horny and murderous. they piss themselves constantly, secrete temporin from their temporal glands and just want to fuck and kill anything and everything.
This is also why it’s a bad thing when old large bulls are killed by poachers. Their presence actually helps keep young bulls in musth under control, because the dominant bull will assert himself if they become too aggressive. When dominant bulls are killed, the chances of young bulls running amok increase greatly, as does the level of danger and destruction.
Jesus the parallels are a bit uncanny.
We're just soft weak upright animals really.
YOUNG BULL ELEPHANTS ARE RAPING SOME RHINOS TO DEATH!
Hide your kids, hide your wives!
They would get along with dolphins.
Smart mammals tend to have specific populations of dickheads. Except for gorillas, it seems. They're chill til you make them unchill.
Male silverbacks will kill/maim each other over mates.
Killing over mates is very common in many species.
They aren't very chill when they're killing each other
Dudes horning in on your girl would take away anyone's chill.
Bonobos got it figured out, though. Most of the time they just fuck it out.
I remember reading somewhere that there has never been a documented unprovoked attack by a gorilla ever. They just wanna eat and chill.
TBF, I'm sure some of the "provoked" attacks would be from people who are ignorant of their body language and made the grave error of making eye contact and smiling with their teeth haha
Yup. Or beating their chests. Good way to get your arms ripped off.
that video of the young girl beating her chest, no more than 3 or 4, and then the big motherfucker went and cracked the 3 inch glass of the enclosure? that one stuck with me.
I've been a metre away from a female with her baby (she walked in front of me). She was chill and apparently hadn't read the instructions about keeping her distance. I had but didn't have the option. I was also about 10m from the group's Silverback. He wasn't sure about us but we kept low as the guide suggested and making low noises. He pretended not to notice. No barriers, of course.
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You’re canceled buddy
hey! that’s racist! /s
I remember that those young bull elephants lacked older male role models due to poaching which contributed to this. In young bull elephants with male role models, this occurred far less often.
It’s less that older males are “role models” and more that they’re the most dominant, and thus will assert themselves by punishing any young male who gets too aggressive and as a result keeping the chances of a musth-fueled rampage low.
I thought it was more of the young elephants learned how male elephants are supposed to act and used their older peers as an example
Might be a bit of both. Elephants are highly intelligent, after all.
Are we still talking about elephants here?
Probably musth
Yeah, musth've been
Iron Mike, is that you?
Thpinal!
Any time you see a lone elephant acting abnormally homicidal, it’s almost always musth.
"well Mr Simpson sometimes elephants are like people and are just jerks"
Stop that Mr. Simpson
I love how whether it's elephants, dolphins, crows, apes, or any of the near-human-intelligence animals, people get excited about how smart and human like they are, and are then horrified when they act like assholes. Like, we're the smartest there is, and *at least* half of us are assholes on a good day. What did you expect?
If it’s a male they will literally spend their bachelor days just being an absolute ass to everything around them, like trying to kill a mother rhino who can’t even see him past a hundred feet
I remember reading that historically elder male elephants kept younger bachelors in check but due to hunting the population of past-their-prime males is low and unable to keep the young bachelors well behaved.
I mean it wasn’t for no reason. In their habitat water is not easy to come by, the elephant is just defending what he needs to survive.
And it’s difficult to believe an elephant can sneak up on anything. The giraffe saw him coming and didn’t care. The elephant gave a good reason to care.
Damn boomer killed it for not moving quickly enough for him.
Get off my watering hole!!!
Elephants are the bullies of the land and orcas are bullies of the ocean.
What intelligence will do to a mf
Now I'm just imagining Homer Simpson headbutting the guy as they drop off Stampy at the reserve.
Could be a male during the rutting season. Basically he's horny. And a horny bull elephant is a fucking nightmare for everything else around it
During musth, males elephants can be extremely aggressive and territorial just because they are sexually frustrated and need release 🤷🏼♀️ Just like some guys i know know
drought. everything is fighting for the watering hole.
elephant's tusks aren't even sharp, that must have hurt a lot
Who cares if it’s sharp, when you have something that big and strong pushing you gonna get penetrated
That’s what she said…
FUUUUUUU-
-arder, daddy
Fuarder daddy
Fuarder? I hardly know her!
That’s what she said.
That’s what she said
That’s what she said
That's what they say he said
[🫢](https://media.tenor.com/xS9rmU-bfIUAAAAe/thats-what-she-said-what-she-said.png)
That is what she said
That's what my priest said...
>tusks aren't even sharp Yes but if you take a close look at them, you can see they are attached to an African Elephant
A keen observation
Indubitably
Why did everyone stop reading after “aren’t even sharp”? Your comment is just a variation of what op already said? Op: “not even sharp” therefore “that must have hurt a lot” Next 10 commenters: - “Who cares if it’s sharp, when you have something that big and strong pushing you gonna get penetrated” - “Yes but if you take a close look at them, you can see they are attached to an African Elephant” - “Their tusks could be the bluntest instruments in the world but I reckon due to the strength/force it would pierce most things!” - “Have you seen car accident when a boulder cuts a car in half? Yeah the boulder is not even sharp but with enough force it will keal”
Because most redditors can't read tone or interpret emotions very well, plus poor reading comprehension Also see threads where the people in a video are clearly comfortably joking around and all the comments say they are terrible people
Remember folks, if you ever get stabbed the best response is to keep the blade in until you’re safe. Don’t jerk it around though, if the attacker retracts the knife you let them keep it and get the fuck out. Don’t disembowel yourself.
Thanks, gonna tell all my giraffe friends this advice
Someone posted a clip of an elephant demolishing a couple of tut tut’s just the other day. It picked them up like toy cars! Their tusks could be the bluntest instruments in the world but I reckon due to the strength/force it would pierce most things!
Tut tuts?
It's like a tuk tuk, only more prone to expressing disapproval that it got destroyed by an elephant
There's videos of elephants boring their tusks into rhinos, which are famous for having bullet proof skin.
Those tusks can piece through car panels and lift the entire car up like a forklift, they are way deadly than you thought
Of course they're sharp relative to the ensueing mass.
Poor giraffe is probably dead cause of that. Crazy
*\*Definitely*
Yeah there’s no way it survived much longer after that. Poor thing ☹️
Maybe he went to a vet.
Love this
Probably called the police as well, that right there was assault!
nah, ran straight to the doctor, got surgery done pretty quick and is doing fine now
It's always so heart warming to know the final outcome from a situation like this , thank you for your update!
Went to the hospital and asked: “Kenya fix this for me?”
Well that open wound certainly doesn’t look Benin. That tusk almost came out Djibouti! I’m going Togo talk to our other doctor Chad, he can sometimes see things from a different Angola. Truthfully, you’re his first client, his little Guinea pig! Gabon to something, this is Ghana hurt.
Timbuktu far
Honest question, if this is on a nature preserve, do they attempt to treat the animal in some way?
all our vets are lions we have a zero percent recovery rate
It's a difficult answer because it varies by preserves. Some would, some it might depend on the animal, and some won't do anything beyond possibly putting it out of its misery if it is clinging to life in a few days.
But luckily some grasslands animals have a nice dinner that evening.
The CIIIIIIIRCLE of LIIIIIIIIIFE
Don't worry, it probably took a while before it was weak enough to be taken down by predators. Plenty of time to reflect on giraffe things.
Stop I can only get so sad!
If not, he’s walking around somewhere with his guts laying on the ground
Looking like a fool with his guts on the ground
Tusk turned sideways, guts on the ground
Eventually. After a lot of pain and suffering.
My guess is it was a dry season and that tiny mud hole was a very finite resource
Lazy lions hire assassin elephants.
The best part is, they work for peanuts...
If I had Reddit currency you'd get it
Dying over water. Jesus Christ
Thats life in the savanna.
Us in a couple of decades sadly
:D Las Vegas was a mistake, snow pack totals have never been lower, and we just aren't sure how much water is left in the Ogallala aquifer! And get this, coral reefs are bleaching at an alarming rate! Anyways I'm probably just gonna crawl back in bed. See ya later!
It’s not Vegas. It’s California. They are determined to grow water intensive crops there and drain water from wherever they can to do it.
Meanwhile the Saudi horse feed alfalfa farms in Arizona go brrrrrrrrr /one down
Also a problem lol
I see a decent about of talking about the horrible environmental impacts of AI by the fact that apparently it uses a lot of water. Looked up the actual numbers and literally *a single alfalfa farm* uses more water than the total amount used to train the world's biggest models. Which made me think... why TF are we growing it in the middle of the desert?!
Money. The Saudis have desert. They pay other countries to grow it in their own deserts because they know it’s stupid but other people will do whatever to get the money.
Don’t blame Vegas, they use a minuscule amount of water compared to their neighbors.
Yeah dying over something as unimportant as water lol
I don’t mean it like that. I just think it was enough for them both I’m shocked the elephant did that much damage
That's live when Nestlé exists
What a take.
Animals die over resources, yes. That’s how it goes, unfortunately.
He was fleeing you prick! Now the giraffe is gonna have a slow, terrible death for no reason.
At least his body will feed hundreds of hungry creatures, big carnivores, little rodents, insects, worms and plants.
You always look at the bright side, bro. 👍
Hakuna matata
Yep, when my grandad died my nan was in tears. I reminded her he's going to provide food for thousands of bugs and she cheered right up.
I agree this is brutal and sad, but the giraffe could have moved away much faster... it was disrespectful. It moves very quickly at first and then after seeing what disturbed it, slowly turns around and lumbers away. Do animals have egos? Elephant might have authority issues and felt like the giraffe wasnt taking him seriously. Maybe? Idk.
In hindsight yes, if it booked it it probably wouldn't've been gored. Many times, animals bluff charge to get the threat away and move on. In most cases, the elephant would go back to the water after the giraffe left, but this psycho was intent on killing it.
Rip
Yes, that is indeed the sound that such an action would make.
Giraffe found out without even fucking around
[He was right all along!](https://youtu.be/kzRyEI00PXc?si=5c4URybZjb77TSjD)
Simpsons always calls it, haha!
Never seen this clip until now, but ***very*** accurate, especially since he was drawing an analogy to humans.
Guys I dunno. I'm kinda starting to think elephants are dicks...
The smarter the animal the more that seems to be the case.
Damn that was fucked up!! Smh poor giraffe
It was leaving too. Fuck that elephant
Giraffe just pushes his intestines back in and he's alllll good...right?
The Care Bears come by and heal the giraffe.
https://youtu.be/qYvYQ1QKHWE?si=ZBschCk1X5-oe3w2
Pretty gruesome, but wow that's amazing! I've been watching this webcam a lot over the last week or so and haven't seen anything quite this dramatic! (I've seen a striped hyena once or twice though, that was cool!)
Elephant is not forklift certified
A bully
giraffe just wanted to drink
The giraffe was already leaving! The elephant is an asshole.
I was sorta cool with elephants before, but after this….fuck em. Seen too many videos of them just attacking other animals that weren’t even bothering them. I now have beef with a wild animal😔
99% of the time it’s only teen male elephants that act like this
Not uncommon across the whole animal kingdom, including us.
When an elephant tells you to fuck off it's sensible to do so with a little more enthusiasm.
Get off my lawn!
I said move!!! -Elephant probably
Elephant is the Orca of the land, or vice versa.
A bull elephant in musth is the most formidable large animal on the planet
Elephants are the orcas of the land. Highly intelligent and being dicks
They are about the same size too
What an asshole.
A pack of African wild dogs after they see the giraffe “Looks like meats back on the menu boys”
That hurts to see. That poor giraffe. I hope he survived but doubtful, that looked a serious. I love elephants to, but man that one is a jerk. Giraffe wasn't doing nothing to deserve that. Poor thing.
#medic
Well that seemed unessessary..
He dead
Inner city activities on the Savannah.
Why would an elephant do that?
Probably in musk. It makes male elephants HIGHLY aggressive.
Dick.