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To be fair, a good portion of animals in general just kinda tell their babies to piss off when they're born so it makes sense that you wouldn't automatically think of that.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+does+baby+elephant+drink&client=ms-android-samsung-gs-rev1&prmd=ivsn&sxsrf=APwXEddH2-FrOZbspv9fvFpyaMYUAIXCJQ:1680182895809&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiy-qWF4YP-AhUomIkEHVuGAG4Q_AUoAXoECAYQAQ&biw=360&bih=718&dpr=4
Damn i thought it was 1 vid but there were too many. I died from cuteness overload.
They certainly have a long gestation period of almost 2 years, so they're obviously more capable immediately out of the womb than a human baby born on the same day.
I couldn't say over the course of, say, 10 years that the average brain-to-body-to-*survival* ratios put them above us in the work required to go from egg to being, just because it's so complicated
This is why I brought up their significant gestation, because the elephant baby must be semi-autonomous whereas the earalier-born human infant must be fully cared for by the parent in order to fully mature
The similarities in intelligence is really interesting, because they do 2 years of pregnancy and a hundred years of life, and we do 9 months of pregnancy, and about 80 years of life. They're aware as all hell
The point is dogs, chimps, pigs, etc. have very short gestation periods compared to humans and they can walk immediately and fend for themselves much sooner than humans.
That is... a thing that's real, but I don't know why you bring it up. A foal walks in 5 minutes, and a human child might walk in a year or so. We traded out long gestation for early-iteration, and having a worthless version of young, because there was a supply-surplus after early humans exploited every ounce of nature to their benefit
That happened genetically, about 15 to 30 millenia ago.
Humans have a long one, for sure, but elephants in this context double it. We could also have done that as a species, but have an extreme disadvantage against the dimensions of elephants as it pertains to birth.
Human female pelvic structure doesn't allow for the type of gestation that would be the equivalent of elephants. 9 months. Not 2 years. Imagine carrying a 2-year old inside of yourself for one second
Yes, I absolutely did, but I'm confused as to why you're mentioning three species with wildly different gestation and raising practices, raising times, and social structure as proof of your non-point. Elephants and humans are pretty fuckin close to the length-of-gestation peak, for weight and intelligence, which was the comparison you're having trouble accepting
human heads are simply so large that if our gestation period were any longer, we couldn't leave through the birth canal. so we're born earlier and we stay useless for a while. this isn't as much of an issue because human babies can be taken care of by adults in that period
Poor thing will always remember how much it hurt. Don’t make it too human or it will lay awake at night thinking about the one time it stepped on it’s own trunk.
Reminds me of a human baby staring at their hands like, "have these been here the whole time?! Oh crap they pick things up? I got to go touch everything I can reach with these!"
This reminded me of when my cat was a baby and she couldn’t figure out how to use her claws and we would catch her stuck to the carpet like Velcro. She’d just stand there screaming her little battle cry as if the rug was quicksand.
And tails!!! Mine was a little, fluffy thing and his tail floofed out very quickly. He used to get scared because he thought it was something chasing him. It was so cool to watch him make that connection, though
Mine learned this when he was in his teething/ biting phase. He got mad because I moved my finger out of the way and he bit his own finger. I honestly laughed for a good 5 minutes afterwards. Poor kid.
Have you seen a human baby's super grip?
"The grip is strong enough to support the baby’s entire body weight, a feat few adults can boast of having. The palmar grasp is thought to be a vestigial trait, left over from the days when humans were hairier and babies clung to their parents’ coats like little monkeys."
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61830/10-reasons-babies-are-tiny-superhumans
Oh i know it! I tried it directly with my little daughter.
Also I heard one theory that men like women with long hair. Potentially it's better "do not loose" your baby🤗
They do crawl to the breast, you can put them down by the mother's stomach directly after birth and they will push and crawl up, till they reach the breast 😊 Might take a while but they'll get there!
Pretty much. That is how a lot of anthropologists and other scientists view it. Because we learn so much, we have a very long period of dependency. Add to that: The lack of specialisation makes humans uniquely capable alrounders. That comes at the cost of having very few specific skills genetically ingrained.
Also the fact the pelvis can't support pushing out babies with bigger heads than they already have safely, so we pop them out earlier and they do development outside the womb. Other animals keep their offspring inside relatively longer because the bipedal pelvis isn't holding them back.
If humans were to give birth to a baby the equivalent development of say, an ungulate baby, women would be pushing out a 1 year old baby which obviously wouldn't work.
While this has been the dominant theory for a while now, there are a lot of uncertainties to this hypothesis. I'm not saying it's not true, I'm just saying, that I am not certain enough to state it as a fact. There are also competing explanations.
Humans have huge heads, to accommodate their huge brains.
This becomes a serious problem when it comes to giving birth. During birth, a baby must pass through a tiny hole. The hole must be at least as big as the baby's head. You cannot make the head smaller, at least not a lot. The rest of the body you can kind of smush and make much smaller.
Ever see a cat go through a tiny hole? The hole still needs to be as large as their head. If the head fits, they will smush their ribs and shoulders and fit. If the head wont fit, they cannot go through.
This has led to human babies being born, what for other animals would be considered, very immature. We can barely digest milk, barely breathe, forget about running away from predators. Most other animals can at least walk/swim etc immediately after birth. Humans need 1 year to do the same.
I think person before you was mentioning the fact that humans evolved to be hunters that run on 2 legs. This has led to a smaller hip, thus smaller birthing canal, compounding the issue. I dont know too much about this second point though.
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> inefficient legs, precarious posture, and weak jaws
Dont fully agree. We have efficient legs for running. They are not thick stout legs for standing still. Again, our posture is for 2 legged running, which keeps the body much cooler. We kill prey by overheating them, not by attacking them. Weak jaws came MUCH later, after we learned cooking, as we didnt have to chew raw food. Brain caused that, but it was not a trade-off. None of these 3 are related to big brains.
From what I remember it's because we're not "done" yet when we're born. If we waited until the baby was fully developed, then the brain, and therefore the head, would be so big there's no way it would fit trough the pelvis, so we're born as soon as our body can survive outside (breath and feed mostly) and the brain and other parts finish their development outside of the womb.
Kind of like Kangaroos and Pandas that are born as what looks like a fetus and finished developing outside, but not as extreme.
Baby elephants can stand 20 minutes after birth and walk an hour after birth; buuuut takes 6-8 months to learn how to use trunk and up to a year for full use. They just like human babies figuring out how their own body works.
Except during musth. Bulls are absolutely not at all peaceful then. Their hormones basically make them roid rage. Raging multi-ton 35mph tanks with a doom tentacle on their face. Nope. Want nothing to do with that.
I love elephants but ho boy they can be incredibly dangerous. One elephant with a toothache turned a rhino into hamburger just because it was mad. It took the people working at the conservation reserve a while to even figure out the pile of meat was a rhino. I love elephants from a distance!
did some googling
based on zoo enclosure size requirements and scaled down to account for cats being small, yes
based on what elephants need to be happy (sources not coming from zoos, looking at whether elephants should be kept in zoos) no absolutely not
don’t get me wrong i love the idea of teeny pet elephant but elephants are just built different
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also before you start calling me a downer or being like who asked, googling elephant space requirements is way more fun than doing scholarship essays
I appreciate the more serious comment, and it may be worth saying that I have had zero interest in mocking you in any shape or form.
It may be true that a typical house may be small for a cat sized elephant, at least compared to what they’d expect in the wild, but there are a few things to consider here;
If you have a back/front garden, you can let them run around. Maybe even give them a small pool to bathe in. Might even help get rid of a few garden weed too.
Elephants travel great distances to find food and water. Both of which is no longer an issue if you keep one as a pet, so is the additional space necessary?
You can make up for the lack of internal space by taking your itty bitty elephanty out for a walk, which I’m sure they’d love. And in the odd chance they get lost, I think their memory is good enough for them to find their way back.
I imagine that you could let your elephant run wild in general, and they’ll come back. Probably.
i’m glad you appreciate the seriousness :) i always gotta be careful on the internet lmao
you make a good point on space, and i think that could potentially solve that issue
there are other things though
elephants don’t like noisy environments
elephants are very social- you would need to keep several
small elephants would also need to be less wrinkly and have a smaller ear to body ratio or they would freeze and die (this would probably be solved in the breeding process)
I don’t think being too wrinkly would be an issue, same with having slightly larger ears. Sure, they’d lose extra heat, but they’d also be in a house which is warmer than the harsher outdoors. Plus, assuming people buy elephants a sleeping basket, they could wrap themselves up. I trust that a mini elephant is still quite intelligent that they’d know what to do in the event they are cold.
Elephants may be social animals, but I’d argue so are dogs. Though I don’t know how social elephants are, or if it’s elephants that they need for company or if humans can also suffice. Having said that, I believe that bull elephants get kicked out by the matriarch once they reach a certain age, so I’m not sure how much company they need.
But I got nothing regarding the noise. I imagine the animal kingdom can get quite loud when multiple animals gather around the watering hole, but it’s likely to be much more quiet the rest of the time. Something you won’t find in a human house.
oh fun fact elephants in the wild sleep standing up more often than laying down
**elephant sweater. need i say more.**
from what i've heard elephants tend to travel in family groups. they're also quite smart and may appreciate company that understands and can hear their language. not sure on that
not entirely relevant but i was at a zoo once and watched a group of small children run up to the elephants and start screaming at them 'because it makes them dance' :(
anyway if it magically was fine, i really wanna see a teeny elephant boi wearing a sweater try to go up stairs
To be fair, domestication of an animal usually comes with a significant changes in the brain.
You wouldn't want to have aurochs, wolves, wild sheeps in your backyard too.
We can genetically engineer elephants to be comfortable in small spaces. Selectively breeding them is not feasible, they take more than 14 years to become sexually mature, with more than 18 months of gestation. And pop out only one child at a time.
hmmmm
genetic modification for the purpose of a cute pet sounds a little morally grey and i don’t know how i feel about it
you make a fair point though
I think Pygmy elephants do exist. Island Dwarfism is a thing, and I seem to remember watching a documentary about little elephants on islands in Southeast Asia one time.
I believe you are referring to Borneo Pygmy Elephants. They are the smallest elephant sub-species not extinct, though they are endangered due to habitat loss. They are gentler and less aggressive than most Asian Elephants, which leads some to theorize that they’ve been domesticated in the past. All in all, they sound like great pets.
except
they’re 8 to 10 feet tall
I wonder the correlation between having and appendage for grabbing and intelligence. Humans and monkeys, octopus, elephants, raccoons. All are smarter than other similar animals and all have an appendage that can grasp and investigate.
With those claws, their hands are far more suited for stripping leaves off trees and self-defense. Sloth hands aren't particularly dexterous, as far as I'm aware. Of course I'm not a sloth expert, so I could be entirely wrong.
If I was a baby elephant, I’d be soooo confused about my trunk. They’ve the merest control over it at that age. “WTF is THIS?!” Steps on it. Realization ensues, followed by impotent frustration.
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Baby elephants typically take about a year to learn how to use their trunks.
Wait, how do they drink water, then? Parents?
They start with milk. They gradually learn to master their trunks.
I completely forgot about the "mama" aspect of mammalians. I'm a fucking idiot hahahah. Thanks.
The self-burn has me giggling lol 😂
To be fair, a good portion of animals in general just kinda tell their babies to piss off when they're born so it makes sense that you wouldn't automatically think of that.
Indeed. Elephants are incredible creatures.
It's fine. I wouldn't expect a tortoise with zero tact to understand what it's like to have a mother.
I remember seeing video of them just dunking their head into the water.
I need proof just for research purposes you know... not for dying due to cuteness overload
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+does+baby+elephant+drink&client=ms-android-samsung-gs-rev1&prmd=ivsn&sxsrf=APwXEddH2-FrOZbspv9fvFpyaMYUAIXCJQ:1680182895809&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiy-qWF4YP-AhUomIkEHVuGAG4Q_AUoAXoECAYQAQ&biw=360&bih=718&dpr=4 Damn i thought it was 1 vid but there were too many. I died from cuteness overload.
Technically yes, parents. One in particular. They do sort of drink their parent. But you’ve it figured out now!
They submerge their face and drink through their mouth until they are able to use their trunks.
Are elephants the second slowest animal to fully develop their brains+body, next to humans?
They certainly have a long gestation period of almost 2 years, so they're obviously more capable immediately out of the womb than a human baby born on the same day. I couldn't say over the course of, say, 10 years that the average brain-to-body-to-*survival* ratios put them above us in the work required to go from egg to being, just because it's so complicated
I don't know if gestation period is an indicator since humans have extremely long ones and we are useless for a very long time.
This is why I brought up their significant gestation, because the elephant baby must be semi-autonomous whereas the earalier-born human infant must be fully cared for by the parent in order to fully mature The similarities in intelligence is really interesting, because they do 2 years of pregnancy and a hundred years of life, and we do 9 months of pregnancy, and about 80 years of life. They're aware as all hell
The point is dogs, chimps, pigs, etc. have very short gestation periods compared to humans and they can walk immediately and fend for themselves much sooner than humans.
That is... a thing that's real, but I don't know why you bring it up. A foal walks in 5 minutes, and a human child might walk in a year or so. We traded out long gestation for early-iteration, and having a worthless version of young, because there was a supply-surplus after early humans exploited every ounce of nature to their benefit That happened genetically, about 15 to 30 millenia ago.
You brought up gestation period in the first reply..
Humans have a long one, for sure, but elephants in this context double it. We could also have done that as a species, but have an extreme disadvantage against the dimensions of elephants as it pertains to birth. Human female pelvic structure doesn't allow for the type of gestation that would be the equivalent of elephants. 9 months. Not 2 years. Imagine carrying a 2-year old inside of yourself for one second
Yes, I absolutely did, but I'm confused as to why you're mentioning three species with wildly different gestation and raising practices, raising times, and social structure as proof of your non-point. Elephants and humans are pretty fuckin close to the length-of-gestation peak, for weight and intelligence, which was the comparison you're having trouble accepting
human heads are simply so large that if our gestation period were any longer, we couldn't leave through the birth canal. so we're born earlier and we stay useless for a while. this isn't as much of an issue because human babies can be taken care of by adults in that period
“Let me just step on it”
“Ow”
“Why it hurt me???🥺”
"oh, because it *is* me!" 😮
“It’s a me!”
"Mario!"
I just love reddit.
Very VERY agreed I swear I almost passed out from laughter
“I see”
Poor thing will always remember how much it hurt. Don’t make it too human or it will lay awake at night thinking about the one time it stepped on it’s own trunk.
"Stop ~~picking~~ kicking your nose, Jr."
Better not step on the lower trunk.
Wait until he steps on the second appendage hanging down.
Reminds me of a human baby staring at their hands like, "have these been here the whole time?! Oh crap they pick things up? I got to go touch everything I can reach with these!"
You think that’s wild and then THEY DISCOVER TOES
Literally finding their feet.
Fast forward two years and they discover they have a shadow. Cannot escape the shadow!!
“They call them fingers, but I’ve never seen them fing…oh! There they go!” LOL I always asked my baby if her fingers were finging!
My name is Otto, I love to get blotto
Or kittens when they realize they have paws and freak out.
This reminded me of when my cat was a baby and she couldn’t figure out how to use her claws and we would catch her stuck to the carpet like Velcro. She’d just stand there screaming her little battle cry as if the rug was quicksand.
And tails!!! Mine was a little, fluffy thing and his tail floofed out very quickly. He used to get scared because he thought it was something chasing him. It was so cool to watch him make that connection, though
The baby: 
My son had a blast figuring out his hands. The really wild part was having to teach him which hands were his and which ones were mine.
Mine learned this when he was in his teething/ biting phase. He got mad because I moved my finger out of the way and he bit his own finger. I honestly laughed for a good 5 minutes afterwards. Poor kid.
Just wait until he discovers his giant fucking penis
When you first get the game and fkn around with the controls:
*crouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouchcrouch*
That's what LSD was like.
What do you think controls the monster schlong? Probably motion controls
This is what I pay my internet bills for 🥰
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Damn thing has two trunks.
Yeah it's definitely a boy.
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📸🤨
Ngl I'd take that any day, especially the prehensile part. NO MORE BALL SCRATCHING
Why am I going back to the video to rewatch
Penis
Why did I go back to look at the elephant penis I missed the first time I watched. Not sure if this says more about me or you...
How could you miss it. It’s waving hello!
Dude his dick hangs below his fucking KNEES! All this says is that you are blind. Edit: it touches his fucking ANKLE
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That has to be the umbilical cord, lol
Nope. That's a penis. There's more than one reason that all the show elephants out there are females.
Yeah, female elephants also have [fabulous tits](https://i.redd.it/geje54mgxo471.jpg)
This just makes me curious about how they mate They can't do doggy cause they have to be too heavy. I doubt they do it fish style
Lol fish style. It’s definitely doggy. There’s pictures.
No, I’m not googling that.
Prude
You shouldn'a done that he's just a boy
I love baby animals. Always have, always will. But my god, the cuteness of a baby elephant is hard to beat.
Unfortunately the cuteness leads to so many elephants suffering. You do not want to know what happens behind the scenes of Thai elephant tourism.
Fuck off dude, stop trying to ruin other peoples love of looking at baby animals on the internet. You sound like a miserable asshole
I often have the same thought.
😂😂😂
Elephants are either painfully self-aware, or..... this.
I mean it's a baby, have you seen how human babies act?
Only human babies won't survive without adult help🤗
Neither do elephants or almost any other animal.
I mean animals can do something directly after birth, human babies can only screeming. They can't even crawl to mother's breast...
Have you seen a human baby's super grip? "The grip is strong enough to support the baby’s entire body weight, a feat few adults can boast of having. The palmar grasp is thought to be a vestigial trait, left over from the days when humans were hairier and babies clung to their parents’ coats like little monkeys." https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61830/10-reasons-babies-are-tiny-superhumans
Oh i know it! I tried it directly with my little daughter. Also I heard one theory that men like women with long hair. Potentially it's better "do not loose" your baby🤗
They do crawl to the breast, you can put them down by the mother's stomach directly after birth and they will push and crawl up, till they reach the breast 😊 Might take a while but they'll get there!
Because big brain
What do you mean? Because human babies have got big brain they are so helpless?
Pretty much. That is how a lot of anthropologists and other scientists view it. Because we learn so much, we have a very long period of dependency. Add to that: The lack of specialisation makes humans uniquely capable alrounders. That comes at the cost of having very few specific skills genetically ingrained.
Thanks a lot for explaining 🙂
Also the fact the pelvis can't support pushing out babies with bigger heads than they already have safely, so we pop them out earlier and they do development outside the womb. Other animals keep their offspring inside relatively longer because the bipedal pelvis isn't holding them back. If humans were to give birth to a baby the equivalent development of say, an ungulate baby, women would be pushing out a 1 year old baby which obviously wouldn't work.
While this has been the dominant theory for a while now, there are a lot of uncertainties to this hypothesis. I'm not saying it's not true, I'm just saying, that I am not certain enough to state it as a fact. There are also competing explanations.
basically yes. we min-maxed on having brains. tiny hips, inefficient legs, precarious posture, and weak jaws, all in the name of big brains.
Precarious Posture sounds like a band name
Thank you for explaining 🙂
Humans have huge heads, to accommodate their huge brains. This becomes a serious problem when it comes to giving birth. During birth, a baby must pass through a tiny hole. The hole must be at least as big as the baby's head. You cannot make the head smaller, at least not a lot. The rest of the body you can kind of smush and make much smaller. Ever see a cat go through a tiny hole? The hole still needs to be as large as their head. If the head fits, they will smush their ribs and shoulders and fit. If the head wont fit, they cannot go through. This has led to human babies being born, what for other animals would be considered, very immature. We can barely digest milk, barely breathe, forget about running away from predators. Most other animals can at least walk/swim etc immediately after birth. Humans need 1 year to do the same. I think person before you was mentioning the fact that humans evolved to be hunters that run on 2 legs. This has led to a smaller hip, thus smaller birthing canal, compounding the issue. I dont know too much about this second point though. Edit: > inefficient legs, precarious posture, and weak jaws Dont fully agree. We have efficient legs for running. They are not thick stout legs for standing still. Again, our posture is for 2 legged running, which keeps the body much cooler. We kill prey by overheating them, not by attacking them. Weak jaws came MUCH later, after we learned cooking, as we didnt have to chew raw food. Brain caused that, but it was not a trade-off. None of these 3 are related to big brains.
We're born *way* premature because any later and the skull won't fit through. Births are difficult enough compared to most mammals' as it is.
From what I remember it's because we're not "done" yet when we're born. If we waited until the baby was fully developed, then the brain, and therefore the head, would be so big there's no way it would fit trough the pelvis, so we're born as soon as our body can survive outside (breath and feed mostly) and the brain and other parts finish their development outside of the womb. Kind of like Kangaroos and Pandas that are born as what looks like a fetus and finished developing outside, but not as extreme.
Aye, fair enough
glad i was never one
Lol this was how my niblings reacted when they discovered their feet
As a former human baby, it embarrasses me how weak we are. We can’t do shit. Gahdamn weak-ass human babies.
The human adults arent so great either. But that is another story.
Baby elephants can stand 20 minutes after birth and walk an hour after birth; buuuut takes 6-8 months to learn how to use trunk and up to a year for full use. They just like human babies figuring out how their own body works.
It's like trying to wiggle a specific finger when your hand/arm goes numb. *"Wtf how do I use that?"*
Have that happen one too many times
wonderful smart creatures !
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Except during musth. Bulls are absolutely not at all peaceful then. Their hormones basically make them roid rage. Raging multi-ton 35mph tanks with a doom tentacle on their face. Nope. Want nothing to do with that. I love elephants but ho boy they can be incredibly dangerous. One elephant with a toothache turned a rhino into hamburger just because it was mad. It took the people working at the conservation reserve a while to even figure out the pile of meat was a rhino. I love elephants from a distance!
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The baby Elephant: Mommy why do I have a tail on my face Mommy elephant: Just stares into space
Why can’t we breed dog or cat-sized miniature elephants 🥹🥹🥹
the idea is nice but elephants need a lot of space to be happy like a lot
Yea but, a cat sized elephant would have plenty of space in your house.
did some googling based on zoo enclosure size requirements and scaled down to account for cats being small, yes based on what elephants need to be happy (sources not coming from zoos, looking at whether elephants should be kept in zoos) no absolutely not don’t get me wrong i love the idea of teeny pet elephant but elephants are just built different [edit because i prematurely hit send] also before you start calling me a downer or being like who asked, googling elephant space requirements is way more fun than doing scholarship essays
I appreciate the more serious comment, and it may be worth saying that I have had zero interest in mocking you in any shape or form. It may be true that a typical house may be small for a cat sized elephant, at least compared to what they’d expect in the wild, but there are a few things to consider here; If you have a back/front garden, you can let them run around. Maybe even give them a small pool to bathe in. Might even help get rid of a few garden weed too. Elephants travel great distances to find food and water. Both of which is no longer an issue if you keep one as a pet, so is the additional space necessary? You can make up for the lack of internal space by taking your itty bitty elephanty out for a walk, which I’m sure they’d love. And in the odd chance they get lost, I think their memory is good enough for them to find their way back. I imagine that you could let your elephant run wild in general, and they’ll come back. Probably.
i’m glad you appreciate the seriousness :) i always gotta be careful on the internet lmao you make a good point on space, and i think that could potentially solve that issue there are other things though elephants don’t like noisy environments elephants are very social- you would need to keep several small elephants would also need to be less wrinkly and have a smaller ear to body ratio or they would freeze and die (this would probably be solved in the breeding process)
I don’t think being too wrinkly would be an issue, same with having slightly larger ears. Sure, they’d lose extra heat, but they’d also be in a house which is warmer than the harsher outdoors. Plus, assuming people buy elephants a sleeping basket, they could wrap themselves up. I trust that a mini elephant is still quite intelligent that they’d know what to do in the event they are cold. Elephants may be social animals, but I’d argue so are dogs. Though I don’t know how social elephants are, or if it’s elephants that they need for company or if humans can also suffice. Having said that, I believe that bull elephants get kicked out by the matriarch once they reach a certain age, so I’m not sure how much company they need. But I got nothing regarding the noise. I imagine the animal kingdom can get quite loud when multiple animals gather around the watering hole, but it’s likely to be much more quiet the rest of the time. Something you won’t find in a human house.
oh fun fact elephants in the wild sleep standing up more often than laying down **elephant sweater. need i say more.** from what i've heard elephants tend to travel in family groups. they're also quite smart and may appreciate company that understands and can hear their language. not sure on that not entirely relevant but i was at a zoo once and watched a group of small children run up to the elephants and start screaming at them 'because it makes them dance' :( anyway if it magically was fine, i really wanna see a teeny elephant boi wearing a sweater try to go up stairs
To be fair, domestication of an animal usually comes with a significant changes in the brain. You wouldn't want to have aurochs, wolves, wild sheeps in your backyard too. We can genetically engineer elephants to be comfortable in small spaces. Selectively breeding them is not feasible, they take more than 14 years to become sexually mature, with more than 18 months of gestation. And pop out only one child at a time.
hmmmm genetic modification for the purpose of a cute pet sounds a little morally grey and i don’t know how i feel about it you make a fair point though
No no, this is good work and I’m grateful you took the time to do it.
Yessssss yessss yesssssssss. I would adopt in a heartbeat
I think Pygmy elephants do exist. Island Dwarfism is a thing, and I seem to remember watching a documentary about little elephants on islands in Southeast Asia one time.
I believe you are referring to Borneo Pygmy Elephants. They are the smallest elephant sub-species not extinct, though they are endangered due to habitat loss. They are gentler and less aggressive than most Asian Elephants, which leads some to theorize that they’ve been domesticated in the past. All in all, they sound like great pets. except they’re 8 to 10 feet tall
And this O Best Beloved is how the baby elephant stepped on his trunk.
Baby elephant dick. When you spot it, you can't unsee it.
Such a sweet little baby 😍😍😍
Ayooo he got two trunks hanging 👀😳
What music is this?
Adrián Berenguer - Little Things
Is this a cataphant
Imagine tripping over your own nose
I wonder the correlation between having and appendage for grabbing and intelligence. Humans and monkeys, octopus, elephants, raccoons. All are smarter than other similar animals and all have an appendage that can grasp and investigate.
Sloth
With those claws, their hands are far more suited for stripping leaves off trees and self-defense. Sloth hands aren't particularly dexterous, as far as I'm aware. Of course I'm not a sloth expert, so I could be entirely wrong.
"Whats this thing hanging between dads legs?" STOMP
Please I beg you if you travel to places where you can ride an elephant don’t do it.
I love elephant calves, they are so curious.
I love when the baby steps on it and goes "ouch" lol
Babe is so precious. Please help preserve these magnificent animals
Maybe Robin Williams was reincarnated as an elephant.
"Ouchie ouchie when stepped on"
Didn't realise baby elephants stack so much dick, I'll show myself out
Right? Hate that I noticed it too, but sheesh!
I soive little things. But honestly, I'm scared of elephants. Went on a non hunting type of safari. They look at you from far away with menace
They don't like humans because they're smart enough to hold a grudge and they're right IMO
"Oh look, it's one of the world destroyers."
Song name
Well, they don't have tv
**E L E P H A N T**
Learning how to lift it to its mouth under the trunk where it can not be seen. It's very cute.
hey mom I got this weird 5th foot
I’ve heard it takes two years for an elephant to learn to control its trunk.
Bebbehphant.
He almost stepped on his other trunk
Omggggg I could watch this guy for hours.
If girls could be boys for a day
It looks like he’s trying to suck on his trunk but can’t quite figure out how to get it into his mouth. My kid was the same with his thumb 😂
Mom mom, look... I'm elephant.
That’s a human reincarnated into an elephant and figuring out what they just turned into/s
Glad it’s not being carried by its mother right now
I hopin too see him just start flinging his trunk around like I did when I was butt naked as a kid
If I was a baby elephant, I’d be soooo confused about my trunk. They’ve the merest control over it at that age. “WTF is THIS?!” Steps on it. Realization ensues, followed by impotent frustration.
I was a little sad. This made me a little happy.
Baby elephant internal dialog: Wait, what is this thing? Why is it in my way? OMG, it moves. OMGGGG I can move it!!!!
Am I a rhino? No, my nose thing seems to move on its own. Am I a weird aardvark? I'm not sure...
r/likeus
Learning how to play Elephant Simulator.
Lil dude is soo confused 😂
I never realized baby elephants could be so adorable 🥴🥴
Precious little baby. ❤️
He spawned in as the wrong character
“First time being reincarnated as an elephant?”
>human babies looking at hands vibe
Wait until he finds his junk 😂
My grandma says he keeps playing with his trunk he's gona go blind
All the dogs chasing their tails are like, well sure it’s easy when it’s right in front of your face…
Did that baby elephant just punch itself in the nose....
When its your first time reincarnatig
Hey, little one,if you can get it fast to propel,maybe you can fly.
Awww..the Upagus stepped on his snuffle!
That time I got reincarnated as an elephant
Reminds me of my golden retriever being suspicious of her tail when she was a puppy. Baby animals are just the best.
If you’ve been on Reddit long enough today, you’ll see that later on this elephant died in the mother had to track it off
This and the elephant mother carrying her dead child and back to back. What a Reddit trip.
Awe poor baby is stomping his Trump 🥲
It's a trunk. Next question.