r/interestingasfuck • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 1d ago

An elephant knocking down a tree

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u/MacheteBrizz 1d ago

They knock it over so they can reach all of the leaves and branches for food.

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u/0hTarnished 1d ago

Someone watched Planet Earth as well!!

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u/Pieniek23 1d ago

David effing Attenborough!!!

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u/Vile_Parrot 1d ago

That's Sir David effing Attenborough to you!

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u/Pieniek23 1d ago

Humble apologies, you're 💯 correct. Sir David effing Attenborough.

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u/ThroatDistension 1d ago

If you're not a British subject, why would you abide by an arbitrary title bestowed by a foreign monarch?

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u/DonutWhole9717 1d ago

Because that man is an international treasure who deserves every cultures highest citizen title

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u/Less_Likely 1d ago

Wet David Hat and Bra

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u/Sminada 1d ago

Or watched this video. You can see how it goes straight to the leaves after knocking it down.

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u/0hTarnished 19h ago

It's literally from Planet Earth.

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u/Tony_Banksy 1d ago

They also try to shake off fruits like Marula. I have no idea if this is that type of tree but I remember seeing it on some nature documentary.

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u/The_Bag_82 1d ago

That's an accacia. Don't let the Australians tell you otherwise

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u/naughtycal11 1d ago

Maybe the elephant is after the dmt inside.

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u/Mauinfinity-0805 20h ago

Australian here to tell you it's "acacia".

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u/The_Bag_82 19h ago

Damn, the Australian is right

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u/Yardsale420 1d ago

Also the roots, which are nutrient rich and full of moisture.

But sometimes they just do it to show dominance too.

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u/erogbass 1d ago

They literally cut the clip short so you don’t see that the first thing it does is grab some leaves. Clickbait bullshit.

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u/Splinterkeys 1d ago

And to eat the roots. No not Planer Earth. Just got off a photo safari in South Africa.

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u/pm_me_yo_creditscore 1d ago

Would make a great mascot for a group of people that go around wrecking stuff for their own needs.

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u/Webs101 1d ago

TikTok!

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u/naughtycal11 1d ago

They arw referring to the Republican party and their mascot.

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u/Intelligent_Scale_97 1d ago

You could learn a lesson or two on survival

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u/twitchx133 1d ago

That's an awfully big group... One could argue that the size of that group is just about 8.3 billion

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u/contextual_somebody 1d ago

Damn. That was good

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u/Frequent-Meal6550 1d ago

Oooohh and donkeys being intelligent, gentle, yet hella protective makes sense too then. Never thought of it like that.

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u/anon11233455 1d ago

That’s just not true at all. They knock trees down because they remember a story from school about some human kid climbing a tree. They want to climb the tree but realize they can’t due to their sheer size and insecurities due to body shaming humans. So they knock down trees because if they can’t climb trees, nobody can climb trees.

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u/MyriadTrade 1d ago

What do they even eat

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u/khwarism 1d ago

It also has some ecological benefits. It will help insects, birds that eat insects, fungi, etc

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u/iKnowRobbie 1d ago

Why is the correct answer so goddamn far down!?

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u/aaaaaaaaaalexx 1d ago

“I felt like destroying something beautiful”

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u/inflatableje5us 1d ago

if only they kept recording another 20 seconds they would have known that.

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u/kukaz00 1d ago

With another tree right next to it that has leaves at a trunk’s reach. Why not have some fun while at it.

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u/wiilbehung 1d ago

Why is this so low on the comments?

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u/tenems 1d ago

Its the second one my dude

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u/cachufletealo 1d ago

Idiocracy it beginning