I’m telling you elephants are chill motherfuckers. They fucking love being helpful. They once defended a man with heatstroke from a truck that came to rescue him. They knew he was sick, laying against a tree for shade. They were watching over him and petting him, and they threatened to charge the vehicle for coming towards him. Another person passed out, and elephants cried over her and buried her body in a traditional elephant funeral. (Piling branches on her). And were quite spooked when she got up later.
And an elephant was helping workers to put logs in holes for a wall. On one hole, the elephant absolutely refused to set the log in, despite being punished and goaded. Turns out there was a sleeping dog in the hole.
There are so many good elephants stories. They will even help zookeepers wash other elephants– literally, a zookeeper can be like “[Name 1], please wash [Name 2]” and he will go wash that elephant correctly.
Listen guys. Not only are elephants people, but they’re largely better people than us. I’m 10000% serious.
‘The New Indian Express newspaper, ran a story about the post quoting a senior wildlife conservationist who spoke about “instances in the wild where predators have shown a ‘human face’ during conflicts”. He cited an incident in Africa of a female leopard who took care of a baby baboon.
“But the photo that was circulated on April 1 certainly cannot be true. We see conflicts between tigers and elephants in India and lions and elephants in Africa,” he explained.’
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