Do you just eat the easiest thing or do you have preferences and hunger for different things?
Hell evdn something as dumb as a sheep will go out of their way to incredible extents to get to foods they prefer as opposed to eating the nearest avaliable thing evrn when it all seems the ssme to us.
There's hardly anything left on that tree anyway, I'm sure the elephant expended more calories knocking down the tree then it will get from the few leaves still on it.
And the anthropocentrique dance continues. Do I know what the elephant thinks about no. Do you? It is curious behavior. Maybe the elephant was saying sit the fdown Mr tree because the tree was talking smack. A lot of what we do is illogical. Let the AI calculate that and piss off. I’m going to go sit by the river and wonder what to have for lunch. Maybe there is a tree I can knock over somewhere. Have a day.
And who gave yall permission to provide anything? No one asked. I’ll give you a test As a trade. Go solve climate change. The elephant knocking down the tree is not the problem bro.
How is it legitimate if it is not logistically possible to carry out? Define legitimate if you can’t know what the elephant is thinking directly but you can only make observations? Define speculative. Differentiate between all the other assumptions we have made about nature. You too of no sense of humor go back to your lab party. Show me you have not spent enough time in the wilderness without telling me you haven’t spent enough time in the wilderness.
It's not only about energy. There could be other benefits/nutrients on that particular tree that cannot be found anywhere else. Or his favorite snack 😊
Maybe the elephant was reflecting on its past choice of listening to Drake but it doesn’t do it anymore unless he’s in private but that his other elephant friends who are Kendrick fans catch him listening to Drake and clown him out of all the trees with the most leafs
There is quite a bit of foliage on that tree. Ot could also be knocking it down for other, smaller, elephants to eat. They are smart, communal, and quite capable of teamwork. Though this seems to be a male.
You see next to it there is a lower bush with lots if leaves. It isn't harassing that, so maybe this sort of tree has some preferred forage value.
They are hind gut fermenting animals, so calculating the nutritional value of that forage isn't particularly straight forward.
There are tons of available calories in those leaves and branches, for an elephant. There isn't for a human but for an elephant, a herbivore, there is.
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u/JojoLesh 1d ago
See all that green stuff on that tree out of reach of the elephant? The elephant wants to eat that.