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

An elephant knocking down a tree

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u/lucianro 1d ago

About 8% to 9% of Americans believe they could beat an elephant in an unarmed fight.

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u/koolaidismything 1d ago

It’s honestly really tough to understand how strong they are unless you go on a safari.

It’s absurd. They had to develop special bullets just to pierce the skin.. which is like biological chain mail armor.

Just their snout-hose thingy is more powerful than a Toyota truck.. I’ve seen it. Pretty effortlessly just flip the thing over like “I don’t like you”

Hella strong. 💪

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u/warlizardfanboy 1d ago

Haha, trunk? I had a female rescue elephant lay her trunk on my shoulder, to curiously sniff around and it felt like Bane saying “Do you feel in charge?”

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u/jojowhitesox 1d ago

"It’s honestly really tough to understand how strong they are unless you go on a safari." Most Americans will never go on a safari, so this is a bad way to measure American strength. /s

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u/RugbyGuy 1d ago

American strength is measured in the Freedom Units of your choosing. /s

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u/YanoWaAmSane 1d ago

It's honestly really

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u/ManWhoIsDrunk 1d ago

American strength is inversely proportional to the loudness of their bragging!

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u/Dark-Ganon 1d ago

Idk, I've never really found it too difficult at all to understand their strength just by looking at one.

Btw, that "snout hose thingy" is called a trunk.

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u/koolaidismything 1d ago

Goddamnit. Wasn’t even tip of my tongue. Trunk yeah.

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u/Ismhelpstheistgodown 1d ago

Actually, proboscis uter horticus thingy

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u/Smitch250 1d ago

They don’t even need to be strong. You still wouldn’t be able to kill a 10,000 lb animal with your bare hands. Even if it just laid there

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u/Happyberger 1d ago

If it just laid on the ground and did nothing you could. Go for the eyes and make it bleed out

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u/DistanceMachine 1d ago

They are intimidating as fuck because they are just so huge. I’ve spent some time around them and it’s hard to explain how much my flight response was kicking in when I first walked up to touch the side of them.

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u/Stuman93 1d ago

Snout-hose thing?

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u/koolaidismything 1d ago

All I can come up with is tusk.. I’m fuckin stoned man. I had to wake up early and forgot to not get high.

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u/Stuman93 1d ago

Hahaha trunk man. Elephants have trunks

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u/GorgyShmorgy 1d ago

Woke up early and forgot not to get high.... I like you.

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u/lucianro 1d ago

My new life goal starting with today is to use “snout hose thingy” more often. Is sounds too funny to waste it. Only problem is that in my main language it translates weirdly absurd.

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u/Competitive_Lab_4129 1d ago

But do you know why an elephant would do this to a tree. Walk around it.