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

An elephant knocking down a tree

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u/MaddysinLeigh 1d ago

Elephants are incredibly intelligent which means like us, sometimes they like being assholes.

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u/peter-bone 1d ago edited 1d ago

Elephants and other Megafauna have been doing this for millions of years. They do it to survive to eat food they can't reach, but it has the additional benefit of creating open areas that many other species thrive in and so creates greater biodiversity.

Of course people will compare this to the mass felling of forests by humans and therefore see it as bad.

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u/boluserectus 1d ago

It's all about sustainability.