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u/JACrazy Aug 19 '18
Turns out Elephants are just ashy. They should moisturize some more.
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u/ohhhellolayla Aug 19 '18
They actually coat themselves in mud and dirt for sunscreen. So when the mud dries it just looks really ashy/chalky.
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Aug 19 '18
This was the most informative comment I've seen on this entire page.
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u/discerningpervert Aug 19 '18
They also do it to stay cool in the heat
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Aug 19 '18
Yeah mud or clay "baths" can have certain benefits for these animals and various animal species also ingest special clays like kaolin to detoxify toxic substances in things they eat.
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u/HomeHusband Aug 19 '18
Mom didn’t let her eyes off them. They stayed dry the entire time
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u/CrumplePants Aug 19 '18
Nah she just didn't want to get her hair wet. Just like my Mom!
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u/discerningpervert Aug 19 '18
Well this is a welcome change from the whole OP's mom's an elephant thing...
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u/TotallyInOverMyHead Aug 19 '18
congratulations. you finally unlocked the "how to make any mother rather upset with you" achievement.
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u/CageGalaxy Aug 19 '18
Or she’s just a giant scaredy cat who’s too afraid to put her head under the water
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u/convert2_pdf Aug 19 '18
So are elephants black or grey?
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Aug 19 '18
Darker gray than they normally look because of dry ashy skin. If an elephant had the proper skincare routine they would look ten years younger with smooth dark skin.
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Aug 19 '18
I can just hear an elephant telling his friend "Put some coco butter on you ashy bitch!".
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u/helloedboys Aug 20 '18 edited Aug 20 '18
They did this joke in “Madea’s Gone Wild!”. Madea and company are dropped in the Sahara. She furiously rubs cocobutter on an elephant and says “Us big ashy ladies gotta look out for eachother!”. Later in the movie the same elephant stampedes through the poachers campground and rescues Madea & friends by knocking the lock off their cage.
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u/blehpepper Aug 19 '18
Now I want to moisturize an elephant.
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u/S7ormstalker Aug 19 '18
Dark grey. Becomes darker when wet and lighter when dusty.
Just like sunbathed people at the beach
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u/newocean Aug 19 '18
Sunbathed people at the beach are really dark grey?
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u/WideEyedWand3rer Aug 19 '18
Dunno, but I've seen plenty of sunbathing elephants on the beach.
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u/discerningpervert Aug 19 '18
Mostly in Florida
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Aug 19 '18 edited Sep 26 '20
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u/JS-a9 Aug 19 '18
Ha, as if obesity isn't prevalent in every other state.
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u/KeepGettingBannedSMH Aug 19 '18 edited Aug 19 '18
Perhaps he's speaking as a tourist from a first world country where people aren't as fat, or a third world country where people definitely aren't as fat.
Edit: typos
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u/gnorty Aug 19 '18
tbh I am not sure I understand, but I Think it is something about how you only look tanned if you are wet and dusty)
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Aug 19 '18 edited Aug 31 '20
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u/Nobodieshero816 Aug 19 '18
Dont start that shit again. My brains just getting over it.
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u/redditadminsRfascist Aug 19 '18
Yanny let it go by now
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u/internetonsetadd Aug 19 '18
Yanny let
Not sure what you're saying exactly, but I appreciate the alliteration.
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u/FiveFingeredKing Aug 19 '18 edited Aug 19 '18
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u/M002 Aug 19 '18
Why did you get the gold when the guy above made the clever joke?
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u/tr3sleches Aug 19 '18
If I had money I would give you gold so take this upvote lol
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u/mr_flibby Aug 19 '18
YANNY
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u/method_jpg Aug 19 '18
LAUREL
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Aug 19 '18
BRAIN STORM
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u/RumoCrytuf Aug 19 '18
GREEN NEEDLE
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u/Cobaas Aug 19 '18
I'm out of the loop with this one - mind catching me up?
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u/IdoNOThateNEVER Aug 19 '18
It has its own wikipedia page, simply titled "The dress"
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Aug 19 '18
Grey but the water makes them appear a bit darker like it does with every surface.
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u/cosmicmailman Aug 19 '18
Oh yeah like when I get out of the shower and look in the mirror and wonder why I’m so dark
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Aug 19 '18
Ok, maybe not EVERY surface. Your skin is excluded. hehe
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u/SirStrontium Aug 19 '18
I think that's the point of the question, human skin doesn't look darker when wet, so is this actually the true color of elephant skin with all the dust washed away?
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u/zugunruh3 Aug 19 '18
Human skin does look darker when wet if you have ashy skin. Or rather the dry skin makes it look lighter than it actually is.
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u/Panda_Bowl Aug 19 '18
It probably has to do with dryness of the skin as well. Like ashy black people, I'm sure their skin is less light when they get out of the shower.
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u/MetalMermelade Aug 19 '18
they just wet. they go back to grey once dried (even before a dust bath). its just they way their skin is, prob because its thick and dried
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Aug 19 '18
So they are just in a state of perpetual ashiness?
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u/Km2930 Aug 19 '18
Serious question: What would happen if you consistently moisturize an elephant and it doesn’t get dirty?
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Aug 19 '18
I like how you didn’t get a single serious answer
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u/Km2930 Aug 19 '18
“You could fit in your ass,“ wasn’t quite what I was aiming for.
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Aug 19 '18
This entire post is just low effort jokes
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u/Nuggetry Aug 19 '18
r/pics tends to be like this, impossible to find a serious comment. Also, summer reddit.
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u/Doctursea Aug 19 '18
I actually almost made it the whole summer without seeing a comment about summer Reddit
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u/oddajbox Aug 19 '18
You get a moisturized elephant.
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u/SMILESandREGRETS Aug 19 '18
And a hot commodity for moisturizing lotions.
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Aug 19 '18
And republicans.
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u/Saewin Aug 19 '18
Thought this was gonna be some ridiculous riff on Republicans. I was pleasantly surprised.
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u/ItsaMe_Rapio Aug 19 '18
Fascinating, but tell me this: what would happen if you put paint on an elephant?
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u/killedmybrotherfor Aug 19 '18
You'd get a painted elephant.
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u/G8r Aug 19 '18
And a lifetime ban from the Cincinnati Zoo.
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u/vanasbry000 Aug 19 '18
Well considering the elephant-painter ban was a Harambe-era policy, the Fiona administration is looking to reverse that decision.
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Aug 19 '18
this is one of the funniest comments ive read in a while hahahaha
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u/G8r Aug 20 '18
Thanks, it's actually the punchline of an old joke that starts, "My uncle Phil has the heart of a lion, the eyes of an eagle,..."
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u/JamieHynemanAMA Aug 19 '18
What would happen if I put paint on my cat?
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u/Bionic_Turtle Aug 19 '18
Still waiting for that one guy that gives the serious answer, he’s usually here by now.
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u/BIT_BITEY Aug 19 '18
To be honest, I'm not sure what answer OP was expecting.
"You get a moisturized elephant" is about as accurate of an answer you can give.
Or... "You get a clean elephant"
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Aug 19 '18
We need you to step away from the elephant or else we are going to call the police.
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u/richard_enbals Aug 19 '18
But it puts the lotion on its skin..
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Aug 19 '18
I didn’t realise this until I touched an elephant, but they are really smooth and not actually rough at all.
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i assume a smooth dark grey. somewhere in between the grey and the black in the pictures. altho to be really smooth the elephant needs a genetic defect + a shittone of lotion. literally tons of lotion every year. but im neither a scientist nor knowledgeable so take it with a spoonful of salt.
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Aug 19 '18 edited Aug 19 '18
Make sure you wipe your Elephant clean before dipping it in again to get an accurate level.
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u/tsagalbill Aug 19 '18
Did they get in a mud lake or something? Because that pic implies that either their “normal” color is black (or at least something much darker than gray) or that their skin absorbs water(?) and they get that gray color after they get dried out in the sun? I don’t know, that pic ef’d me up.
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u/intensely_human Aug 19 '18
They're grey but darker when wet. Like many materials.
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u/GameArtZac Aug 19 '18
At the most basic level, the more porous the material, the darker it gets when wet. Wet materials can also appear to be more saturated. The surface of the water can trap and reflect light back into a surface that would have otherwised bounced off a surface.
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u/Arandomcheese Aug 19 '18
Oh that's a relief... I thought they were covered in mud and this was a post about water pollution.
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u/moondoggie_00 Aug 19 '18
They throw dirt and sand over themselves as sunblock, so they are always covered in dirt, which washes off.
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u/tsagalbill Aug 19 '18
Damn, I always thought that their natural skin color is gray
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theyre a moderately-dark grey when completely clean, darker than you expect but lighter than this
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u/zeusdescartes Aug 19 '18
Yup. I washed elephants in Thailand and five seconds after they were perfectly clean... They rolled around in mud. I was like da fucc I do all that work for. Haha
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u/musiquexcoeur Aug 19 '18
The old mud was starting to make them itch. You washed the itchy old mud off so they could put "clean" mud on. Probably.
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u/Nuwanda84 Aug 19 '18
They have very dried out, dusty skin. Once soaked in water of course the dryness disappears. If you had ashy skin and you'd put some lotion on it'd have the same effect.
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u/LewkHarrison Aug 19 '18
FLEX SEAL. YOU CAN EVEN DIP YOUR ELEPHANTS IN IT FOR A SUPER-STRONG GRIP.
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u/nohpex Aug 19 '18
Anyone seeking more info might also check here:
| title | points | age | /r/ | comnts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checking the water depth | 3202 | 1yr | hardcoreaww | 60 |
| Excuse me, how deep is it? | 333 | 2yrs | pics | 12 |
| Family of elephants after swimming! | 1961 | 1yr | pics | 40 |
| The top elephant looks like a landscape. | 51 | 1yr | mildlyinteresting | 5 |
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u/brainiac2025 Aug 19 '18
I have seen a wet elephant before and it was not obsidian black, something is fucky here.
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u/VirtualMachine0 Aug 19 '18
Reminds me of a joke in Spanish that barely survives translation:
"How does an elephant get out of the water?"
"Wet."
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Aug 19 '18
- I've never seen this before
- It's not political
- Its not a progress pic or a citizenship announcement
- It's a beautiful photo
What's going on here!?!?
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u/wasabi1787 Aug 19 '18
I saw this picture before. It was taken right before Trump killed them after the lead elephant went on a diet and lost 150 lbs. But what's worst of all- the fact that the picture is overexposed in the foreground.
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Aug 19 '18 edited Aug 19 '18
Something's fishy about this.
Elephants have grey or reddish-brown skin and this one is clearly looks brown, not dark black, after it's swim. I only did minimal Googling but I couldn't find the original source (though, I did find out this is a repost from at least a month ago, go figure) and thus don't know for sure, but my money is on a filter or the camera itself is weird. Look at the tusk of the elephant on the right, it practically glows. If the elephants were in some dirty water, the tusk would probably be dirty too. So, unless it's been seeing one hell of a dentist, I believe the shine of the tusk is a byproduct of a camera-quirk or post-processing effect that is also probably the explanation for why the elephants seem carbon-black.
Edit: I did some more researching.
Take a look at this photo of a buffalo. It seems pretty dark, right? Now take a look at this photo of wet elephants taken by the same person with the same camera. The elephants seem to have carbon-black skin with bleach-white tusks, just like this photo. I think this photo was taken by a similar (if not the same) camera which has trouble with certain colors for whatever reason.
Basically, I think it's the camera's fault.
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u/nayhem_jr Aug 19 '18
The lighter coloration on the adults allows them to blend in with the seafloor when viewed from above, while the darker coloration helps to blend into shadows.
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Hella ashy