I love elephants and whales; my favorites are "orcas", they're awesome! 😍

Wow, something similar happened to me in Thailand, an elephant was so I happy when I fed him, he looked at me straight to the eye, it was like telepathic communication, it was an amazing experience I'll never forget

No you can't see , ( things that are unseeable

​@@raymondparnell439 Bing bong

But it doesn’t build roads and make plastic and go to war so they must be STUPID!

in india you can bath an elephant, hang out with them, feed them

I think they legit cry. They grieve over their dead for days at least too.

I just checked on Google, “do elephants cry?” Obviously I didn’t research it but the first thing that came up said it looks like they do. They grieve like people. Dogs and cats grieve too, they may not know about death, but I’ve had pets they notice when their buddy is gone. They know something isn’t right.

That religion is in to pleasing demons. Aint nothing smart about it.

How we treat animals, especially farm animals on factory farms is the most disgusting thing us humans do. They are so much smarter than we realize yet we torture and treat them like than are robots. Pigs are so smart and will have heart attacks when they see other pigs killed for food.

@@alessandroscuderi7300 I'm done eating pork. heart breaking to read this. Thanks for your insight.

@@alessandroscuderi7300 you should see how animals treat each other in the wild, stop being delusional

@@atomram6890 Factory farms unnecessarily TORTURE the animals their ENTIRE miserable lives. Thats completely different than animals just fighting against or eating each other for necessary reasons.

We are the animal kingdom!

Are you saying his fascination with the intelligence of elephants is actually driven by the complexity of their group dynamics?

​@@swatchedlimpune6668 that, or that sociability is a major driver of intelligence in animals

I hang out with a lot of humans I don’t respect a lot of them especially the ones that eat a lot of chicken

@@jimmytran5971 that’s kind of kind of an odd reason to not like someone. That would probably be most people.

@@shillian4770 i still like them I just don’t respect them something about gold teeth eating some spicy fried chicken makes me feel a type away especially when they eat them with chopsticks

You should be our president

Uhhh no

​@@eerohughes you know everything wow

Where can I find more information about this? Is it possible that they know things that we don’t? Can we teach them English?

@@damaisjjel Unfortunately I don't have any books or documentaries I can recommend. This is just info I've heard about over a couple of decades. There's video on youtube of the mine. There's plenty of documentaries on animal intelligence that have sections on elephants. Best I can do is find the elephant episode of a show called Inside Nature's Giants, and a real science channel episode they did on animal communication progress. Personally I don't think elephants have the mouth hardware to be able to speak a language, especially since their vocal communication seem to be at a lower range than humans can hear. Perhaps something more like the pet buttons (i.e. billiespeaks) or simple sign language.

@@damaisjjel You could make the argument that most animals "know" things we don't. Tons of animals communicate in crazy ways we can't even begin to pick up on (chemically, pheromones, hive-minds, ect.). It is very tricky for humans to navigate this kinda stuff because we gage how "intelligent" an animal is by comparing it to human intelligence we can understand. We don't see or understand I guess is a better word the intelligence that many animals utilize when overcoming their daily problems. This video shares some examples in Elephants. Super fascinating stuff.

Populations of lions, tigers, elephants, rhinos have all been increasing in India in the last 2-3 decades. The world needs to catch up.

Based on what? How have you studied and researched that exactly then?

So sad. Yeah, zoo's are a tough call. I can only deal with them if they provide the biggest & most natural environment possible & knowing specific animals are actually in a better environment. I'm amazed that people are amazed about animal intelligence & emotion. Every animal feels, everything alive senses the world around it. If a person stops & watches any animal on land, sea or sky you see independent intelligence & a personality. It may not appear so due to our perception but scrub that clean & its plainly obvious we aren't simply watching automatons responding to inherited instincts only. Orca for one are amazing integrated societal pods, every mother teaching their young, young sibling animals play fighting as learning & just simply playing also. They just interact within their environments whereas we adapt & destroy the environment for all creatures. Another perception is superiority & we are superior by perception & what measurement? Humanity?

Unfortunately, zoos will be the elephant's best chance of not going extinct within the next 30 years. I just hope that soe one with tons of money can acquire the lands needed to keep a herd healthy and happy - preferably in a country thatvalues thier lives.

I was staying near a sanctuary that had Peacocks in it, I would walk through there every other day, and a Peacock had its plumage up in a corner, against white painted walls, its rear facing me, and I didn't know it was there until it turned around. It might have been flexing on me, because it didn't move until I started to walk past it. Smart a$$ little ****. XD

This is true at least from what I've seen and have come to know as true. Elephants grieve for their dead. And even revere / treat as sacred the sites where their dead have passed away.

@@ino7604 young Bulls growing up without proper role models led to a wilding and uncivilised behaviour reflected in the kinds of rampages the spoiled offspring of Western Liberal Systems engage in

@@ino7604 He's referencing a heard of elephants that came to a ladies funeral that used to torment them I think. Basically a heard of elephants killed someone, then that same heard of elephants travelled to where her funeral was being held and stomped on her corpse.

@@keenfire8151 lmao that's so f-'d up

Yeah, the part about poachers taking the last ivory tusks on the planet made me feel anger and anguish.

I lost braincells just trying to grasp why you feel the need to ask such a stupid question, because the answer is so obvious. I feel dumber for reading and responding to your nonsense.

@@Relbo I don’t think you came in here with them.

They are family friendly concentration camps. But also those animals are free from the dangers of what they were born into. So I don’t really know, I’m sure they’d all prefer to be out in the wild though.

Yeah, he wasn't sleeping in that versions, as I remember

after you see the way elephants get broken in Thailand to allow fat-assed Americans and Chinese to sit on them for a stupid picture and some moronic giggles, you may feel sorry for elephants, too.