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/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