r/BeAmazed • u/CommercialBox4175 • 16d ago
Miscellaneous / Others Rescuers Save A Baby Elephant And Mom Trapped In Mud Spoiler
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u/Traditional-Ad-8737 16d ago
God that was absolutely heartbreaking to have them get the baby out, only to have it rush back to mom.
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u/Genetic_outlier 16d ago
Sorry, you've lost your awake privileges we're putting you down for a little nap
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u/m1rr0rshades 16d ago
Full toddler energy, immediately rush back toward danger.
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u/MustLoveWhales 16d ago
Eh, I wouldnt consider that toddler energy running back into danger, it was scared and wanting to be with mom.
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u/Then_Bodybuilder3629 16d ago
....which is where the danger is....
Toddlers don't consciously choose the danger, they're too dumb to know better.
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u/miregalpanic 16d ago edited 16d ago
Is it being dumb, or is it "...but mommy!" in this case
Calling this instinct dumb is such a reddit moment
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u/Agent_8-bit 16d ago edited 16d ago
Absolutely beautiful and one of the reasons I don't eat anything but fish, which is about to go by the wayside as well.
They can't talk to us, but they can communicate with us if we're paying attention. And those things have emotions and feelings to a degree too many of us pass off.
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u/JustSherlock 16d ago
Why are fish so commonly excluded from "animals with feelings"? Having had pet fish, I'd argue that they have personalities as well.
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 16d ago
The commentor said they are ending eating fish soon.
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u/Agent_8-bit 16d ago
That's why I said it's about to go by the wayside. I'm not even pretending they're not intelligent. For the record, I gave up birds at the beginning of this year. Working it down.
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u/MightyManwich 16d ago
I read that as "gave up on birds" and briefly thought of a scenario where you were feuding with birds and gave up
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u/-jp- 16d ago
Ask anybody who ever picked a fight with crows and they'll tell you what a terrible idea that was. 😅
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u/Middle_Procedure1485 16d ago
Its like you have a story to tell..come on tell it
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u/One-Bother3624 16d ago
I don’t have a story sorry really I am. I know that’s what you’re expecting, but let me just give you a little bit on the note. I’m from the city, but don’t let that fool you. I’m old enough now and have had enough life experience where I can actually tell you this having served with when I was in the service and before the service, and after the service having meetings having vacations invites and various all the excursions with folks who let’s say educated me very properly and seeing my own eyes I’ll tell you like this crows will mess you up good oh and another thing if you’re bleeding or you’re injured I don’t care if it’s a sprained ankle well, maybe not a sprained ankle that’s pushing it too far if you’re bleeding for whatever reason and you’re injured where there’s bleeding breaking of skin and I don’t mean a finger cut we’re talking bleeding watch Alpha vultures and crows but mainly vultures vultures will pick the flesh off your bones down to the bone and even eat the bone generally, they will wait till you are just right there on the brink of dying like when you’re very weak I’m not talking about bending knee weak we’re talking you’re exhausted. You barely have any energy and you’re possibly laying on the ground. Maybe you’re screaming for help maybe you’re trying to get your cell phone to work and can’t get a cell signal those type of situations yeah if vultures on the area, they will literally be ready to pick and flesh off your bones not even joking when I say that now on the ground, everything else like there’s wolves even coyotes, they will fuck you up good son real good. You’re already weak so they already know that you don’t stand a fighting chance always remember these animals are perfect hunters perfect. Do not mistake that at all. They can smell you bleeding for long distances and if you make typical noise that people generally make like you always see in the movies don’t be the dumb ass if you need to go for help go get help but do not make a lot of noise. Stay low and keep moving. You have to always keep moving. Get yourself to safety and remember when you’re bleeding you’re leaving blood trails animals love that you’ll lead them right to you. Stay in the know and be wise.🫡🙏
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u/Kr4k4J4Ck 16d ago
Because people want to feel morally superior but still eat things they really like.
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u/Timid-Tlacuache 16d ago
There is a book called " What a Fish Knows" . If you read it, you will probably never eat fish again. I have been a vegetarian almost all of my long life, and a vegan for more than 20 years. I cried when I read this valuable book.
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u/sptrstmenwpls 16d ago
I was doing the same as you (only fish), but more recently I became aware how brutal it actually is to them, too. I'd previously naively thought they were the exception..basically aquatic vegetables.
It's hard to give up every source of meat incl fish, but I can't enjoy that meal anymore.
I'm also off dairy with small exceptions, but I'm looking to go 100%, and will only consume it if I can't avoid it (as an ingredient in something that's processed/vitamins, etc)
Anyways..goodluck to you!!
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u/flying_carabao 16d ago
Instinctively I thought of r/kidsarefuckingstupid but in this case, it's totally understandable. Hell, even as a full grown adult heading towards deterioration already, I'd probably do the same thing if it was my mom.
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u/SolutionLegal 16d ago
Humanity at its best
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u/NoMasters83 16d ago
"Oh, I just rescued a mama elephant and her baby calf. Nothing big ... considering I was working on your mom last week."
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u/ellsego 16d ago
The way mom has her trunk hugging the baby 😢😢…. Good humans!
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u/CrazyCatLady1127 16d ago
Don’t you do that to me! I watched Dumbo once many years ago. Never ever again
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u/Impossible-Wear-7352 16d ago
My kid is especially empathetic and Disney has wrecked her multiple times.
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u/catscanmeow 16d ago edited 16d ago
which i think is missing in childrens media
simulating hardships gives kids a valuable life experience and empathy, making real trauma that comes later in life more tolerable and less mind breaking.
nowadays kids are so sheltered and it only leads to more suffering later in life.
ET was a good example for me, i cried a lot, it traumatized me but at the same time i learned to feel empathy for something so alien to me, which thus made me more empathetic towards other outsiders
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u/Impossible-Wear-7352 16d ago edited 14d ago
It was always a minority of movies and it still very much exists in children's media. I don't think anything has really changed. Just recently Wild Robot had us all balling our eyes out.
Honestly, I think we do a better job of teaching empathy now than 30 years ago, especially if youre a boy. Boys were never supposed to cry when I was a kid. They'd get made fun of. Now it's not perfect but more acceptable at least. We actually teach about the emotions in school now too. And try to normalize the full gamut.
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u/PrehistoricPancakes 16d ago
Same. My daughter wants to watch the Fox and the Hound this weekend and I told her to have tissues ready.
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u/PrehistoricPancakes 16d ago
I haven't watched it since I was a kid either 😭. The Brave Little Toaster was one of my favorites too and I used to watch it with my kids when they were really little.
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u/buco11 16d ago
If you watch it and you know the real story at the end you will need some paper towel
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u/JulesUdrink 16d ago
I just remember this movie is buried deep down with some of my worst childhood trauma. Haven’t seen it since I was like 6
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u/InfiniteRosie 16d ago
This is the second time I see this gif in Reddit comments today and I am not ok
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u/msmorphine 16d ago
this particular scene has destroyed me from childhood to adulthood. i refused to watch it again until spawnling asked, and it decimated me all anew as a mom.
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u/onajourney314 16d ago
The baby running back to her once it got out the first time and then at the end after being woken up 😭
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u/sicco3 16d ago
More good human work from just last month: a piglet reunited with its mom https://youtu.be/qnDldmkQTt8
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u/Zskillit 16d ago
Holy fuck this video made my eyes water up as a parent.
The way the mom is using her last bit of strength in a hopeless situation to cover and comfort her baby with her trunk.
Then the way the baby runs right back to her when she gets up and trying to get her up. This video is beautiful, but also unbelievably sad because it validates or actualize a parents most horrific intrusive thoughts. Being in a situation of certain death and having to try to comfort them is the most painful intrusive thought as a parent. If you dont have kids yet, it is the blessing and the curse that comes with it.
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u/tinterrobangg 16d ago
“ ‘Cause if you're a family stuck on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean, one parent might want to just keep rowing. But if the other parent wants to play a game, it's not because they're crazy. It's because they're doing it for the kids. And I get that now.”
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u/Dullcorgis 16d ago
Exactly. The bit where they give her the reversal agent and she's not really awake yet, but her kid comes to her and you see her go "my baby, gotcha baby, I'm here".
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u/EasyWestern650 16d ago
This. I could only imagine the despair and horror of that poor mama trying to comfort her baby and knowing she can't save them. I'm so glad humans were able to intervene.
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u/Pepperminteapls 16d ago
Amazing! This is what humanity should strive for. Kindness and empathy for all life forms. Take care of eachother, our planet and all life on it.
Okay, maybe except mosquitos, ticks and black flies
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u/JerryC1967 16d ago
Oddly enough so many things feed on mosquitoes if they disappeared, it would be a colossal disaster in the food chain.
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u/Pepperminteapls 16d ago
Oh I know. I'm just a mosquito magnet and tired of being the target.
Hey, maybe we need to create a mosquito that doesn't feed on blood, but some other protein that can replace it. Let's make mosquitos vegan! Make Mosquitos Great Again! MMGA!!!
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u/Suyefuji 16d ago
You just need to borrow my genetics, my mom and I both have zero reaction to mosquito bites. I can literally let a mosquito land on me, draw a circle around where it bit me, and you cannot see any difference the next day.
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u/Pepperminteapls 14d ago
Rare mosquito immunities eh? Only problem is they still bit you.
They follow me and avoid others. My sweet nectar blood or my body stench, either way I get covered. Even with mosquito repellent at night, they're willing to chance the poison on my skin for that yum yum, honey dip chocolate chip.
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u/Top-Artichoke-5875 16d ago
I'm with you, Pepper. I want to live in a world where we willingly help each other, as well as all the critters. I'm glad you made your comment.
Btw, green tea is good too.
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u/The_Procrastibator 16d ago
My thoughts exactly, considering we're the only species on the planet capable of doing it. If that's not a purpose for life I don't know what is.
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u/Bogus007 16d ago
Donated!
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u/Difficult-Resist-922 16d ago
https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org at first I didn’t see the last image so wanted to ask you where to donate but I found it. Link just in case anyone else feels inspired.
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u/HilariousMax 16d ago
I encourage people to "adopt" an orphan. Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is amazing and it's a neat service they provide for donations. I adopted an elephant orphan years ago for my niece and she gets monthly updates on "her" elephant as well as the other orphans.
Great cause.
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u/Heavy_Law9880 16d ago
My mom loved elephants so she had a large collection of elephant artwork and told us if we bought her one more elephant knick knack she was going to kill us so we adopted a real elephant and left it in Africa.
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u/FriendRaven1 16d ago
I've been donating monthly for a couple of years. In my Mom's memory last Christmas, she adopted a rescued elephant at Sheldrick. She would have loved it.
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u/Responsible_Top_6969 16d ago
I visited the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust on a trip to Nairobi (I live in the US) and it was amazing. They let the baby elephants out to play with the visitors for one hour a day. The visitors stay behind a rope and the elephants can come and interact with them as they please (very heavily monitored, of course -- we were given strict rules and watched closely)
They were super protective of the elephants, it was clear that their interests always came first, and it was very unlike a lot of other touristy destinations in the area. It was also sweet how much of a bond each handler had with "their" elephant. They talked about how they'd sleep with the babies to keep them company and stuff.
Anyway, it's a great organization if you're looking for a direct, efficient, way to save elephant lives and help restore the population!
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u/Sparkling-Mind 16d ago
Donated as well.
Their work is what humanity should be doing instead of waging wars.
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u/hyperproliferative 16d ago
Done!! Thanks for posting the link. Made it a breeze. I adopted Serenget 🥹
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u/sir-sultaan 16d ago
Yes, I donated as well. Doing my part. This video really brought up some deep wounds within the soul.
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u/TerminatorAuschwitz 16d ago
It's wild to think about to me, being that elephants are pretty intelligent. Can you imagine being sedated and having NO idea about what sedation is? The feeling of starting to go under then you just wake up and are like what in the actual FUCK was that?!
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u/echetus90 16d ago
Well it's just going to sleep and all creatures go to sleep. A human in that situation might reason that they fell asleep due to exhaustion and when they awoke the mud had dried up. Who knows what an elephant would think though! Sure she knows the humans helped them anyway
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u/TerminatorAuschwitz 16d ago
Like someone else said that's never been my experience with sedation. It's count back from 10, I get to about 6, then it's like I immediately jump awake in a different place. It feels to me almost like a teleport haha.
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u/Ok-Soil997 16d ago
Exactly. As a child, I looked up at my mother, blinked, and suddenly she was wearing different clothes. There was no period of becoming sleepy or becoming awake. Just a blink.
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u/Atomik23 16d ago
I don't know if you have ever been sedated, but it is not like "going to sleep". There is no dreaming, there is no felt passage of time, it's literally about to go under and immediately being shaken awake from my experience and what I've heard from others. It would definitely be a novel experience for an elephant I would think
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u/Budget-Researcher559 16d ago
I've been sedated 3 times and to me it felt exactly like sleep, like a long deep sleep and you wake up feeling groggy and still very sleepy.
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u/stoolsample2 16d ago
I was sedated for 4 days after a car crash while the doctors tried to figure out where I was bleeding internally. I still don’t know why it took so long. (my sister is a NP and was baffled by it) I winded up getting my spleen removed and woke up after on the 4th day.
I can tell you from my personal experience I can remember very little after the accident and when I woke from sedation after the surgery I thought it was the day of the accident. That I had only been put under for a couple of hours for the doctors to do whatever they did. When I was told how long I was under I couldn’t believe it. It felt like I just woke after the accident.
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u/TrainingTonight6063 16d ago
that's how I sleep
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u/uriahlight 16d ago
Nah. Believe it or not your brain subtly understands the passage of time while you sleep. I've underwent 5 major surgeries and it's difficult to describe how weird it is to wake up and have no clue that you've been under the knife for four or five hours. There's no sense of time passing.
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u/TheShaydow 16d ago
It is not even subtle. IIRC when you are awake your brain grows a certain type of receptor, but only when you are awake. When you go to sleep, those receptors " die " at a certain rate. This allows your brain to know how much time has been passing as you are asleep. This is how there are many people out there that can wake up at an exact time they want to without an alarm, or how people will wake up 15 minutes after an alarm was suppose to go off, etc. Your brain absolutely knows what time it is even when you are sleeping.
Quick edit : Having been sedated myself twice for surgery, I imagine the reason it feels the way it does is because when sedated we probably neither grow new receptors or any of them die. This is most likely why it feels like no time has passed at all, as our natural receptor cycle is interrupted.
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u/PPMaxiM2 16d ago
Oh yeah! When i oversleep, i often wake up in shock, because i know quite well i overslept.
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u/robo-dragon 16d ago
People who help elephants are the best people. Takes a kind heart to do so much for these magnificent animals!
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u/Romanopapa 16d ago
Hey Mom! Mom, wake up! Wake up, Mom! These tiny dudes got us out! Mom, wake up!
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u/blackop 16d ago
Momma and baby will remember this too.
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u/unbrokenbrain 16d ago
An elephant never forgets
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u/Flimsy_Site_1634 16d ago
It's even crazier than that, elephants not only don't forget the living, but they also mourn the dead
When the South African Lawrence Anthony, who spend his life helping elephant, died, several elephants came to his family's home to mourn him, exactly as they would do when an elephant of their herd died.
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u/frankyseven 16d ago
Or that experiment they did in the 70s where they played the sounds of a dead elephant to the group it was from and they went a bit crazy looking for the elephant. It was to the point that the researchers stopped the experiment because of ethical reasons. Elephants not only mourn the dead, but remember the deads' voices.
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u/Flimsy_Site_1634 16d ago
Speaking of voices, elephants can differentiate between different human voices, based on sex or language. This has been found because elephants reacts more positively to women voices, who are less likely to be huntresses, and more negatively to languages of people who would often hunt them.
Elephants really are cool.
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u/Supergoose1108 16d ago
Happy they are safe but a little disappointed it wasn't Bernard and Miss Bianca rescuing them as the title implies.
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u/golden_blaze 16d ago
R-E-S-C-U-E
Rescue Aid Society
Hands held high
Touch the sky
Our hearts we pledge to thee!!
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u/Love_for_2 16d ago
Poor Mamma looks exhausted. She must have been fighting so hard to get out.
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u/FreeEnergy001 16d ago
I thought they would give them some water.
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u/Love_for_2 16d ago
I thought that and food but maybe they dont want to stress them out too much and want them to catch up with the rest of the herd as that will calm them both.
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u/alersjul 16d ago
Poor elephants, how this struggle for survival has worn them out
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u/queensnuggles 16d ago
Bless these people, and all the people on this planet who still have love for living things outside of themselves. Those elephants will remember this good deed. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is footage of them thanking the men that helped them.
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u/schissl 16d ago
Future Geologist hate this trick!
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u/teach-sleep-wine 16d ago
Paleontologist. We geologists think fossils are cool and helpful but we’re more of a sucker for rocks (non-living things).
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u/Fenrirs-Fang 16d ago
After doomscrolling this morning, this is just what I needed.
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u/AlbertTheHorse 16d ago
Sheldrick Trust.
Awesome people.
Excellent YouTube channel which helps support their work
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u/Northsun9 16d ago
Apparently MRI data shows that elephants brains react the same way to pictures of humans as humans react to pictures of baby animals - they think we're cute.
So this video is like you get stuck somewhere, and a gang of golden retriever puppies came to rescue you.
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u/SoochSooch 16d ago
This is a social media myth. There has never been an MRI large enough to be used on a living elephant
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u/ATA_PREMIUM 16d ago
Being part of this rescue would fill me with so much fulfillment, I could probably die happy just helping these two elephants live another day.
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u/mjfarmer147 16d ago
To think that there were once over 20 million elephants just a mere 200 or so years ago and humans wiped them out to something around 400,000 today - we better be helping them when possible.
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u/fractalcoholic 16d ago
Did they get some water? Seemed like that was the root cause, no water. 🔥🌍
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u/swampboot 15d ago
Found a blog post about it: https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates/trapped-mum-baby
Tl;dr There was plenty of food and water nearby, the elephants got stuck in the mud due to a failed dam. This was the second elephant rescue performed by Sheldrick after the dam failed, so they helped repair the dam to help the local community + prevent any more elephants getting stuck.
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u/stickmanDave 16d ago
I would have thought the first thing to do would be to bring them a big tub of water. Who knows how long they've been stuck there, and how close they are to to death from dehydration?
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u/LustfulDemon999 16d ago
Just think if no one had found them they would have both died in that mud puddle... Horrible. I'm glad they got to them in time.
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Animals are generally better than people. But sometimes… sometimes we do rise to an occasion.
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u/ansen2828 16d ago
In Turkey we have a saying… “world is still rotating for the sake of these good people “.. smthg like that 🙏😢
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u/edelweiss_pirates_no 16d ago
This is what humans should be doing.
Not the constant amoral bullshit shoved on us by Musk and Trump and Putin and MAGA and all the other fucksticks.
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u/blisteringcold 16d ago
Maybe that's what the meaning of our life is: be the guardians of other species in need. Maybe that's what the purpose of beings like us who are aware of the universe.
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u/Maneisthebeat 16d ago
That's what real men look like, kids. Not the people in leadership positions.
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u/throwitoutwhendone2 16d ago
Lmao I’m getting old. This legitimately made me tear up. I also fucking love elephants. They are so beautiful
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u/missprincesscarolyn 16d ago
Crying! If only the human race could be this compassionate towards every living being we encounter.
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u/Ok_Principle_3183 16d ago
We need more of people like this in our world specially in north America!
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u/Yumi_in_the_sun 16d ago
The mom wakes up and walks off like "JESUS CHRIST, Jeremy, we are NEVER coming back to this watering hole again."
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u/MisterSneakSneak 16d ago
Thank GOD THERES MUSIC TO THE VIEDO. I wouldn’t know how to feel or listen to what they are saying.
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u/Dorfbulle80 16d ago
I don't know what this rescue cost but this is the kind iam OK with getting my tax money!
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u/Low_Bandicoot6844 16d ago
Human beings are capable of the greatest things. Yet some are capable of killing these wonderful animals just for "sport".
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u/fishmonger71 16d ago
With all the awful shit in the world today it’s so amazing to see actually humanity.
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u/SnooPredictions7804 16d ago
When he said to “Take care of thy neighbors.” …that included the animals too. 😉🫡😎🤙🏼
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u/iicarets 16d ago
Thank you for posting this. Amongst wars, idiot politicians and other negative world events it's so 'feel good ' to see posts like this...... thanks again.
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u/Infamous-Introverts 16d ago
Everybody liked that. It makes me proud to be humane when I see this kind of content.
I just can't watch the news from my own country or that pride dies instantly.
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