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intelligent emotional and massive
elephants are more complex than will
ever fully understand welcome to
watchmojo.com down the most interesting
facts that we could find about elephants
when it comes to hardware the elephant
brain is around three times bigger than
a human’s
number five small critters don’t scare
elephants elephant stopped in its tracks
like whoa and then it gently tipped it
away as if this thing was deadly
we know that anecdotally yes elephants
can be startled by little critters
running by them but the idea of pesky
little creatures terrifying massive
elephants is largely a myth and we
probably have an ancient Roman scholar
to blame as Pliny the Elder first
referenced the myth in his encyclopedia
called Natural History elephants
actually have a windpipe cover known as
an epiglottis which debunks the idea
that invasive critters may crawl up
their trunk and suffocate them
those who have studied elephants seem to
say that small darting movements can
spook them but this is true of pretty
much any animal perhaps given the size
of elephants humans just interpret a
sudden change in movement as absolute
terror I like to pick on little guys huh
number four elephants detect seismic
signals no that doesn’t necessarily mean
that they can detect earthquakes before
they happen
elephants communicate with each other
audibly and also in more covert ways
they regularly make rumbling noises at
frequencies so low humans can’t hear
them but elephants also have the ability
to detect seismic activity and the long
distance locations of friends or foes
the skin on their feet and trunks allows
them to sense other elephants from miles
away
elephants position themselves with the
leg up and body forward in order to
pinpoint the exact nature of the
activity because they have the
sensitivity they can communicate to each
other by stomping on the ground for
instance they may want to convey a
hostile message or just warn their
friends about potential danger go see
elephants steps go see elephant steps
number three human-elephant conflict in
sri lanka is often deadly imagine if
instead of a gopher or a raccoon causing
trouble in your backyard your quarrel
was with a 10,000 pound Sri Lankan
elephant in Sri Lanka when an elephant
becomes a significant problem wildlife
officials often try to ease the tension
by capturing and relocating the specimen
to somewhere out of the way like in a
national park however research from the
Smithsonian conservation biology
Institute has found that these elephants
don’t tend to stay put in those parks
they tend instead to head back to where
they were taken from causing Cuban
elephant conflict along the way roughly
70 people and 200 elephants are killed
every year as a result of such conflicts
there is at least one creative solution
that shows promise though placing
speakers in farmer’s fields and rigging
them to play the sound of growling
Tigers and other angry predators seems
to deter elephants from raiding those
crops number two elephants maintain
lifelong social structures in the wild a
single matriarch elif
rules over pack of up to 15 however
males leave the pack when they become
adults and form their own groups or
sometimes just live on their own
regardless of gender
elephants abide by learned social
structures the midship would be the one
that knows where to avoid and went to
cool ways and buzzes where it’s not safe
the male’s adhered to a dominance
hierarchy and in turn researchers have
learned that females become very
stressed once their matriarch passes
away incidentally the older males
initially leave home when the females
become aggressive and though it’s not
literally true that elephants never
forget there is tons of evidence to
suggest that they are some of the
greatest learners and rememberers in the
animal kingdom which makes sense given
that their brains weigh 10 pounds it
wouldn’t be that large or that complex
unless it we’re serving some important
purpose number one elephants have over
70 calls and 160 signals now what are
they making noise about right that’s the
Penelope family and it’s their way of
saying hello it should be no surprise
that along with elephants impressive
intelligence and well-defined social
structures comes a relatively vast
vocabulary
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as mentioned elephants emit
low-frequency growls to convey messages
and this is their primary form of
communication
communicating at such low frequencies
means their calls can travel for miles
even through forest touching is also a
key form of communication the wrapping
of trunks or the active mutual smelling
unites elephants and bolsters their
sense of community
elephants are deeply emotional
experiencing intense feelings of love
grief and rage which makes their 70
distinct calls and 160 signals so
crucial to their relationships crush up
deadlines Oh
pull it in winded rhythm so what facts
about elephants surprises you the most
and are you still not convinced that
elephants don’t have merle phobia a fear
of mice I’ll be back in a minute
I’m gonna take care of future for more
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top fives be sure to subscribe to
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intelligent emotional and massive
elephants are more complex than will
ever fully understand welcome to
watchmojo.com down the most interesting
facts that we could find about elephants
when it comes to hardware the elephant
brain is around three times bigger than
a human’s
number five small critters don’t scare
elephants elephant stopped in its tracks
like whoa and then it gently tipped it
away as if this thing was deadly
we know that anecdotally yes elephants
can be startled by little critters
running by them but the idea of pesky
little creatures terrifying massive
elephants is largely a myth and we
probably have an ancient Roman scholar
to blame as Pliny the Elder first
referenced the myth in his encyclopedia
called Natural History elephants
actually have a windpipe cover known as
an epiglottis which debunks the idea
that invasive critters may crawl up
their trunk and suffocate them
those who have studied elephants seem to
say that small darting movements can
spook them but this is true of pretty
much any animal perhaps given the size
of elephants humans just interpret a
sudden change in movement as absolute
terror I like to pick on little guys huh
number four elephants detect seismic
signals no that doesn’t necessarily mean
that they can detect earthquakes before
they happen
elephants communicate with each other
audibly and also in more covert ways
they regularly make rumbling noises at
frequencies so low humans can’t hear
them but elephants also have the ability
to detect seismic activity and the long
distance locations of friends or foes
the skin on their feet and trunks allows
them to sense other elephants from miles
away
elephants position themselves with the
leg up and body forward in order to
pinpoint the exact nature of the
activity because they have the
sensitivity they can communicate to each
other by stomping on the ground for
instance they may want to convey a
hostile message or just warn their
friends about potential danger go see
elephants steps go see elephant steps
number three human-elephant conflict in
sri lanka is often deadly imagine if
instead of a gopher or a raccoon causing
trouble in your backyard your quarrel
was with a 10,000 pound Sri Lankan
elephant in Sri Lanka when an elephant
becomes a significant problem wildlife
officials often try to ease the tension
by capturing and relocating the specimen
to somewhere out of the way like in a
national park however research from the
Smithsonian conservation biology
Institute has found that these elephants
don’t tend to stay put in those parks
they tend instead to head back to where
they were taken from causing Cuban
elephant conflict along the way roughly
70 people and 200 elephants are killed
every year as a result of such conflicts
there is at least one creative solution
that shows promise though placing
speakers in farmer’s fields and rigging
them to play the sound of growling
Tigers and other angry predators seems
to deter elephants from raiding those
crops number two elephants maintain
lifelong social structures in the wild a
single matriarch elif
rules over pack of up to 15 however
males leave the pack when they become
adults and form their own groups or
sometimes just live on their own
regardless of gender
elephants abide by learned social
structures the midship would be the one
that knows where to avoid and went to
cool ways and buzzes where it’s not safe
the male’s adhered to a dominance
hierarchy and in turn researchers have
learned that females become very
stressed once their matriarch passes
away incidentally the older males
initially leave home when the females
become aggressive and though it’s not
literally true that elephants never
forget there is tons of evidence to
suggest that they are some of the
greatest learners and rememberers in the
animal kingdom which makes sense given
that their brains weigh 10 pounds it
wouldn’t be that large or that complex
unless it we’re serving some important
purpose number one elephants have over
70 calls and 160 signals now what are
they making noise about right that’s the
Penelope family and it’s their way of
saying hello it should be no surprise
that along with elephants impressive
intelligence and well-defined social
structures comes a relatively vast
vocabulary
[Music]
as mentioned elephants emit
low-frequency growls to convey messages
and this is their primary form of
communication
communicating at such low frequencies
means their calls can travel for miles
even through forest touching is also a
key form of communication the wrapping
of trunks or the active mutual smelling
unites elephants and bolsters their
sense of community
elephants are deeply emotional
experiencing intense feelings of love
grief and rage which makes their 70
distinct calls and 160 signals so
crucial to their relationships crush up
deadlines Oh
pull it in winded rhythm so what facts
about elephants surprises you the most
and are you still not convinced that
elephants don’t have merle phobia a fear
of mice I’ll be back in a minute
I’m gonna take care of future for more
trumpeting top tens and barely audible
top fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com control
[Music]
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