Ever Seen A Drunk Elephant?
by CatfootAround here, Western Cape, South Africa
Jul 2014 1,924 Views 104 Comments
Elephants are incredibly intelligent. They have very large brains. Even when scaled down to size, they have brains much larger than most other mammals. They have created some of the most complicated social structures in the animal kingdom.
One indication of intelligence is altruism; that is the self sacrifice for the good of the whole herd. Elephants are famous for their altruism in protecting their young, and this is only one of the many characteristics that make them amazingly intelligent.
Elephants have been known to medicate themselves when sick by chewing the leaves of specific trees depending on their illness. They also bury their dead in a ceremonial way; the only other species on Earth to do so besides humans.
They are known to get drunk on occasion. They will ignore marula fruits on the ground, opting to eat those off the tree until there is enough of the fermented fruit on the ground and will then eat the whole lot to leave them staggering around. It is not unusual for them to uproot young trees and telegraph poles in this condition. A very human trait; is it not?
Elephants are very playful, which helps them to develop dexterity and special reasoning. Their nimble trunks can be used to manipulate tools, including paintbrushes, which elephants have been trained to use in creating remarkable pieces of art. Circus elephants are known to take a sugar cube out of their trainers’ pockets without breaking it.
They can recognize themselves in mirrors, and, when marked, can immediately see something new has been added to their appearance. To have enough self awareness to recognize a reflection as being the self is the sign of true intelligence. Elephants do look at themselves in a pool of water before drinking. I suppose if they could socialize on marulas then they could be vain as humans as well.
Another strange thing about the elephant is the internal testicles. It is not external as with other mammals. I guess nobody is going to kick him in the balls.
Have a wonderful day!
One indication of intelligence is altruism; that is the self sacrifice for the good of the whole herd. Elephants are famous for their altruism in protecting their young, and this is only one of the many characteristics that make them amazingly intelligent.
Elephants have been known to medicate themselves when sick by chewing the leaves of specific trees depending on their illness. They also bury their dead in a ceremonial way; the only other species on Earth to do so besides humans.
They are known to get drunk on occasion. They will ignore marula fruits on the ground, opting to eat those off the tree until there is enough of the fermented fruit on the ground and will then eat the whole lot to leave them staggering around. It is not unusual for them to uproot young trees and telegraph poles in this condition. A very human trait; is it not?
Elephants are very playful, which helps them to develop dexterity and special reasoning. Their nimble trunks can be used to manipulate tools, including paintbrushes, which elephants have been trained to use in creating remarkable pieces of art. Circus elephants are known to take a sugar cube out of their trainers’ pockets without breaking it.
They can recognize themselves in mirrors, and, when marked, can immediately see something new has been added to their appearance. To have enough self awareness to recognize a reflection as being the self is the sign of true intelligence. Elephants do look at themselves in a pool of water before drinking. I suppose if they could socialize on marulas then they could be vain as humans as well.
Another strange thing about the elephant is the internal testicles. It is not external as with other mammals. I guess nobody is going to kick him in the balls.
Have a wonderful day!
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This is a great blog! Love it! You have lovely day yourself!
We are truly privileged here in Africa to have such an abundance of wild life.
The African elephant is not only much larger than the Indian elephant but also much more aggressive. I won't suggest getting close to an African elephant; sober or intoxicated. They cannot be domesticated and are know to have wrecked cars beyond repair.
Specially for you, but I did not know you were captured in the footage. Where were you?
I'm glad if you enjoyed it.
Do you mean that cow flat on her back?
I remember (when I was in univ) that an elephant was even used to give us more understanding in drawing a statistical conclusion.. Not sure though if it has any thing to do with elephant intelligence..
Anyhow, hope no elephant kick you!
I'm not sure how much elephants know about statistics but the do have exceptional memories. However, I'm not sure how much they remember about the night before after a marula party.
Have you ever seen elephants playing football or at least heard about it?
So yes, they do kick.
Like s h i t..
And they are not allowed to ride motobikes either. There is no helmet that designed for such big ears!
1. Orangutans
2. Bottlenose Dolphins
3. Chimpanzees
4. Elephants
5. Crows
6. African Grey Parrots
7. Pigs
So where are our friends, the dogs and the horses. Well dogs rank at #13 below rats, raccoons and a few other animals.
I think I can recall seeing a video of some Indian elephant playing soccer but that is a human taught skill.
I am yet to see a guy training African elephants playing soccer. He will go straight into the Guinness Book of Records for the shortest living elephant trainer. Humans and soccer balls don't sit well with the bottom side of an elephant's foot.
It must surely take more than that to get you speechless.
Is that a record or is it just average.
No, Lukre is correct. That is a tortoise. Turtles don't have feet with nails on. They have paddle-like fins. The turtle is a water animal while the tortoise is a land animal.
A little joke for you:
"What did the elephant say to a naked man?"
"Hey that's cute but can you breath through it?"
Also: How do you know that an elephant has been in the fridge????
... Because there are some footprints in the butter, you idiot!
Sure, that is a rather nasty thing to do.
And Luke is not kidding. Tortoises are eaten in this country. I have eaten it at several occasions when I was younger. Not the large species though, they are mostly protected but we still have millions of the smaller (Padloper) species.
It is killed and cooked directly on a fire in its own shell (turned upside down). Quite a delicacy with some people here.
The Chinese love their tortoise soup, it's supposedly to detoxify your blood/body...
Heck! Come to think of it, the Chinese love to eat all animals that have their backs facing towards the sky!!
Yes, they get drunk and disorderly just like humans.
Your first joke is new to me. Cute!
The clever people overseas say it is something else that intoxicates them as an elephant will need at least 1.7 liters of marula juice to get tipsy but they are wrong. I have seen it happening with my own eyes. There had been no research done to see how much alcohol is needed to stupefy an elephant's brain.
Here in South Africa we make an alcoholic beverage with the fermented marula fruit. Quite potent.
Quite so, the Chinese eat everything. A few years ago a Chinese family was evicted from a neighborhood after the pets started disappearing and in the end the skinned carcass of the latest missing pet was found in their house.
I wonder what happened about it. I did not follow the court proceedings.
Anyway, here are 2 pics of a baby Asian elephant that I took while holidaying at the south of Thailand in late February this year.
The baby elephant and the mahout went around the streets of Haadyai asking for alms.
>> Have you ever seen a drunk Rooster?
I must have some Chinese blood for I eat most things.
Great pics!
But the African elephant is much larger and I would not fancy my chances anywhere within a mile of it. Vicious as they are, they are very compassionate animals. The will even try to bury their victims (yes, even humans) by putting sand, leaves and branches on top of them after killing them. Exactly as they would bury another elephant.
Nope, I have not seen a drunk rooster. How did he get high? Placed on a church steeple?
To come back to your pics, if an African elephant should show up in the streets of one of our cities it will cause havoc. The will call out a state of emergency and mobilize the army.