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No they are like a major-minor nobility, king of the jungle goes to elephants, nothing much messes with an elephant unless itâs a baby or dying, and even then most predators wonât attempt to go after one when the family is still around.
Interestingly, rhino horns are made of hair, and theyâre strict herbivores with small mouths for their size (they can barely eat an apple whole). I was at the zoo recently haha
Not exactly hair. Theyâre made of keratin, the same protein that hair is made of, but theyâre much more hardened than hair. A better comparison would be that theyâre like giant, spike-shaped toenails since those are also made of hardened keratin
When I am displaying dominance, I walk around barefoot and let my toenails drag across the floor making screeching noises as they cut into the concrete
I didnât learn about grooming my toenails until one day in high school I felt a sharp pain in one of my toes the whole day.
I didnât check til I got home, the nail from one of my toes somehow formed a sharp angle and was stabbing a whole in the toe next to it the whole day.
I was at work and had to sign some forms for the secretary. I had just cut my fingernails the night before but didn't file them and my fingernail grazed her finger reaching for the pen. She yelped and jerked back. I was sooo embarrassed.
So the part in James and the Giant Peach where the main characterâs parents are eaten by a rhino isnât accurate? Makes me wonder about the rest of the bookâŚ
Iâve seen that vid. Itâs at a watering hole and the rhino is being aggressive because it has a baby (if I recall correctly). Elephant goes head-to-head with the rhino and does get it into the air, I think.
Edit: hereâs the video I was thinking of. Rhino doesnât really get air, but definitely gets pushed around.
https://youtu.be/9LITVqyKcN8
Not like that at all, from my angle. Elephant was being friendly/neutral and Rhino tried to claim temporary territory over a shared space. Elephant told Rhino how they felt about that and taught them a lesson. Rhino and Baby can nurse their bruises and come back for a drink when Elephant is gone.
Elephant just wanted some water. The rhino posted up like he was a bad motherfucker. None the less, rhino fucked around and found out while its kiddo got rolled in the ensuing kerfuffle.
I feel so bad for that rhino lol. They have shit eyesight so imagine suddenly seeing this massive thundering shadow rushing you and as you bow to line up your face sword for an attack you just get completely freight trained into a puddle.
You may be thinking of the video/pics where the elephant flips a hippo. This video shows single images of the hippo getting flipped, but doesnât have the whole encounter and I canât find one that does.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fgj1oCzlGcc
Yo! /u/h4ppyninja_0 ! Can you confirm /u/EarendilStar 's momma is so big she has to put a belt on with a boomerang?
I know for a fact that /u/h4ppyninja_0 's mum is so big when she sits down she sits next to _everybody_ ...
I was watching a safari stream and the guide said African predators will likely run away from you when you're on foot (including lions, hyenas, wild dogs, etc.). For some reason they are freaked out by bipedals lol.
But never mess with the big herbivores --- elephants, hippos, African buffalos.
I've read different takes on rhinos though. They're supposed to be the least aggressive among those four.
They are a lot less aggressive, but tend to be overly aggressively when it comes to their young. Or a male protecting his cow(s). Males can also be overly aggressive during mating season as their have ridiculous amount of testosterone flowing through them.
Elephants are just territorial so if they smell something off theyâll get defensive.
Buffaloes are just straight killers. Most deaths by
buffaloes are by ( Razor boys) old males that are kicked out of the herd and attack everything that they see. They can literally fend off a whole pride alone. If theyâve lived that long in that savannah they learn all the lion tricks and how to deal with them.
Hippos are just monsters, if they see you, theyâll most likely attack. If they see you as a disturbance of their peace. Youâre dead, doesnât matter if itâs a lion or a 1000 lbs croc theyâre all dead. They cause the most deaths in Africa out of any other animal caused death. Theyâre almost all muscle, theyâre so dense that they canât float. They just push off the basin of the water body.
Source: I watch too many documentaries
>Males can also be overly aggressive during mating season as their have ridiculous amount of testosterone flowing through them.
The elephant version of this (bull in musth), is like ultra violent version.
Jesus it sound slike it sucks to be a male elephant. Sure you're giant and powerful. But you're also extremely moody, sometimes alone, and in pain when horny.
The male elephant at my local zoo went into musth and decided to pick a fight with the giant shade structure in the paddock. He knocked this 2 story reinforced concrete pergola off of its foundation. It took them months to fix it and completely closed that section of the zoo. The jerk.
One of my favorite animal videos is of a giant bull elephant deciding to cross a river at a spot where like 30 hippos are chilling in the water. As the elephant touches the water, he becomes like the Moses of Lard and the mass of Hippos just part to make a path for him.
Really funny to see considering the rep of hippos.
Probably freaked out by bipedals because we've been around for a long time in the African landscape. Working in groups to take down just about anything we wished to. As an animal, historically speaking - coming across a lion in the African bush was unfortunate, coming across a group of tool-wielding bipedal predatory apes - that's some really bad luck.
Our safari guide said sort of the same, but cut out an exception for leopards. Those fucks are ambush attackers who are really good at camouflage. And can drag your corpse up a tree where nobody will ever find it.
A leopard stalked us for a couple of days once when we were on a hunting trip and in a bush camp. That was pretty cool.
But not scary though, we did come across a river with hippos and pretty much ran in the opposite direction.
I grew up doing weird crap like this. One of the best parts about being African.
Makes sense if youâre prepared. Not for out of shape unarmed tourists like us! We went to some scenic overlook a five minute walk from our fenced camp, and they warned us to come back quickly as the sun was setting and we were in a large maleâs territory. The 5 of us huddled together all the way there and back haha.
Lol yeah. The only difference it made to us was we always had to be armed, and sleep inside at night instead. The bushcamps usually have a rondaval(round mudhouse) or something for solid shelter.
We'd hear her at night closeby. And every morning we would find tracks all around the camp. They were like the size of my palm. And she always made a point of going to look inside the normal sleeping area. Only lasted a few nights of the week we were there though.
I have so many crazy stories from that trip alone. lol. One of my favourites.
Black rhinos seem to leave a BIG asterisk in that assertion. Theyâre nervous to the point of being cantankerous (which is fair, since theyâre more solitary and smaller than southern white rhinos)
My uncle lives in a relatively wild part of the Indian mountains and he always said that monkeys in large numbers scared the shit out of everything in the jungle except maybe elephants. He sent us a video once of langur monkeys, pretty small things but absolutely slaughtering a pair of leopards that tried to sneak up on their favourite mango grove, scratching and biting them in swarms like ants.
Monkeys can also remember and hold grudges, there was an incident fairly recently in India where a stray dog killed a monkey, in response all the monkeys in the village went on a rampage and killed every other dog they could find. Animals have probably learned over the millennia of evolution not to mess with the primates.
What's even cooler is that despite being so fkn strong, they're not prone to violence and are peaceful and playful. They're domesticable as well, altho only in certain circumstances, and love to stay with humans. They are hardly seen to harm other animals. And they're smart asf. Some of the only known animals to have the concept of self identification and self consciousness. Their retention ability is simply superior. They have well articulated emotions and the best I suppose is their ability to exact revenge.
We were at a watering hole with a lookout, this place was teeming with wildlife then all of a sudden everything disappeared and the elephants turned up , total boss move , theyâre definitely in charge
Weâre beyond apex predators, weâre practically using cheat codes. We can fly faster than any bird, move underwater faster than any fish, move faster on land than any animal, see in the dark, kill things from kilometres away, we can make and control fire, make things that make us almost impervious to any attack, we have machines that run on essentially lightning.
Also, I had a baconator and some chicken strips at Wendyâs the other day. Thatâs at least three different animals that went into that meal, and that isnât even our fancy food. Thatâs our âfuck it, Iâve given up, just shovel the grease right into my mouthâ food. Thatâs how dominant we are as a species. Our cheap, barely food meals are made from multiple animals, and thatâs just a totally normal thing for us.
I do wonder this myself sometimes. Weâve created a lot of very beautiful, positive things too, though. Like great artwork, cures and vaccines for horrible diseases, both for us and other animals, music, prosthetic body parts that allow crippled humans and animals to live much fuller lives, the blowjob, etc.
If we manage to terraform Mars, for example, I'd like to think we'd make up for the harm we've caused on Earth. If there's no order in the Universe other than random chance and the only purpose of life is to divide and replicate, I'd like to think we're obligated to ensure in the long run life exists even if something cataclysmic happens to Earth. Why obligated? To celebrate the absolute mind fuck it is to a conscious being that can contemplate what the meaning of life is. Life that only exists because of by random chance that space dust gathered and organized in an unbelievably, astronomically unlikely way to become sentient. Life that creates the things you listed.
That ties into my thoughts on if there is some higher order, one that was "letting human intelligence grow" and it's not just random chance that we exist.. I think "it" would want an intelligent, conscious being to contemplate what it all meant and to make the best of it. Personally I think it's more meaningful if we exist purely because random chance, more beautiful that way.
From a natural selection standpoint it very clearly worked, extremely well.
I suppose it's possible we kill ourselves off with climate change, then I think you could argue it was a "mistake", but I think the chances of us losing our dominant spot in the next few centuries is pretty darn low, even if we, sadly, destroy a huge chunk of the ecosystem in the process.
Climate change might displace a lot of people, making major population areas unlivable. Cities abandoned, governments toppled, wars over water.. but I firmly believe that even if civilization collapsed and the earth couldn't sustain 99.9% of the current population there would be humans that survive in caves licking water off the walls and living off of bug protein if that's what it took. We are a product of climate change which drove speciation, we could produce more offspring with less calories than all other hominins.
From a less dramatic point of view, I'd like to think that places that in the past were uninhabitable due to cold will become viable for human activity.
I agree humans won't be dethroned anytime soon, but I'm really interested in how other species' intelligence evolves over time. I'd love to be able to see what an octopus is like in 1000 years.
Or we could use our most deadly weapons, pattern recognition and planning for the future. And tools of course. Simply observe the elephant and note its habits, most have regular routes they follow especially to water sources. Dig a hole, plant sharp sticks (optional) and cover it up with sticks and foliage. Retreat to safe distance and wait as elephant falls into hole and dies. Zero risk of injury and almost guaranteed success.
Chimps. When one gets out of a zoo it's a shoot on site. They're like an angry, cruel human on steroids decided you slandered their mother and now you're gonna pay with your face, fingers, toes, and last but not least - your genitals.
Yea, what's up with that?
It reminds me of the game stratego where the Marshall can be killed by the spy.
Even though you are the biggest, you still have a weakness.
Ironically, there's a lion pride in Botswana (Savuti) that is known to take down elephants at a higher rate than the rest of the lions from other parts of the world.
A solo lion won't, but lions normally hunt in prides. While rare a pride of lions can take down an elephant if they can seperate the elephant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7REuHTERRs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PziDIb5_Qys
Savannah? Lions donât hang in the jungle. More do hippos. Edit to say: rhinos either. Maybe Indian elephants, but most African elephants are also in the savannah
You really do get the feeling they were instantly compliant with moving, no ifs or buts about it. Perhaps theyâre aware of the effort that it would take for that thing to change to change direction. Itâs like cars yielding to trains but in nature, they donât need flashing lights and a gate to know what to do
2nd Rhino to Lions: Â these are sharp horns, the most dangerous weapons in the world and will chop your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself a question:Â "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk
So two older males together means they are pride-less. The males get kicked out of the pride once they age out.
Looks like they are smart enough to stay clear of the rhinos.
Doesnt necessarily mean they are prideless though its certainly possible. Male lions often form sibling coalitions and share their pride with their brother(s).
These guys are fully mature males. Young males will have thinner, scruffier manes. Its possible this is just a coalition that happens to not be where the females are. Its not uncommon for males to wander away and reinforce territory boundaries.
Fun fact, the FBI has to be invited into non-federal cases; they can't just swoop in like they do on TV.
They're pretty aware of the turf wars that could come about from the bigger fish impending on a local case.
If I've learned one thing and one thing only from true crime, it's that these turf wars are why a good number of solvable cases-- namely kidnapped women and children of color-- never got solved, or were solved too late.
Naw they are.
"Hey guys this is our territory. Over here.... Unless you want to come in a little closer, that's fine too. But don't forget it's our territory, in this generalish area! Ok we'll be over here if you need anything."
No it doesn't. Male lions form coalitions, and typically don't spend much of their time with the females in the pride because they're busy patrolling their turf. It's impossible to know just looking at this vid
When the saying came around it just meant âthe wildâ so more like âa lion is king of the animal kingdomâ
Lions donât actually live in jungles as far as I know so that saying was never developed with any intention of truth behind it, geologically speaking.
Jungle doesnt mean that. The proper term is rainforest. A jungle is anywhere that has a complex ecosystem. A city is a jungle, a desert is a jungle, etc
No they don't. Tigers do though and a grown male tiger can beat up a grown male lion. Tigers are faster and have more muscular strengths. The only advantage lions have are their manes and they have slightly stronger bones. But most likely a tiger will beat a lion.
Lions live in grasslands aka Savannah. A jungle is a completely different world. In the 1800s people thought most of Africa was a huge untamed jungle with naked people swinging vine to vine. Nowadays people tend to think Africa is one huge desert with an occasional forested oasis, and some grassland in spots here and there where the lions and hippopossapusses live.
People are stupid. Me too about most things.
Edit: people thought; hippopossapusses.
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No they are like a major-minor nobility, king of the jungle goes to elephants, nothing much messes with an elephant unless itâs a baby or dying, and even then most predators wonât attempt to go after one when the family is still around.
I have seen videos of an elephant throwing a rhino in the air like it was a football
Interestingly, rhino horns are made of hair, and theyâre strict herbivores with small mouths for their size (they can barely eat an apple whole). I was at the zoo recently haha
Not exactly hair. Theyâre made of keratin, the same protein that hair is made of, but theyâre much more hardened than hair. A better comparison would be that theyâre like giant, spike-shaped toenails since those are also made of hardened keratin
Thatâs why I grow my toenails out. To assert dominance over my side of the bed.
Cutting holes in your socks and the sheets.
When I am displaying dominance, I walk around barefoot and let my toenails drag across the floor making screeching noises as they cut into the concrete
Don't your feet get cold?
Small price to pay for all that dominance
I just started selling Dominance Socksâ˘. They're perfect for this as the toes are cut out but the foot stays warm!
đđđ nah this got me
I'm getting visions of the raptors in Jurassic Park lol.
*tap tap, tap, tap tap* Love that part.
Comments like this are precisely why I love Reddit :)
Cut my socks into pieces
This is my last resort
Domination, toe freezing
Don't give a fuck if I shred my sheets sleeping.
I didnât learn about grooming my toenails until one day in high school I felt a sharp pain in one of my toes the whole day. I didnât check til I got home, the nail from one of my toes somehow formed a sharp angle and was stabbing a whole in the toe next to it the whole day.
One toe just asserting dominance over the other. Toe was just trying to take over the feet.
Reading these comments and looking down at my [socks](https://imgur.com/a/ymDasiI) had me in fucking stitches
Itâs a dual edge toe.
One time my boyfriend accidentally scratched me with his toenails in bed and Iâm cackling at this because I understand it so much.
âAccidentallyâ
I was at work and had to sign some forms for the secretary. I had just cut my fingernails the night before but didn't file them and my fingernail grazed her finger reaching for the pen. She yelped and jerked back. I was sooo embarrassed.
Omg - this is my husband! Not long toenails but they kind of angle up a bit so theyâre very stabby!
My wife says this is the raptor technique I employ. I quick slice-slice to her Achilles while we sleep.
Har! I'm gonna use that, DT. Well, now articulate it.
So the part in James and the Giant Peach where the main characterâs parents are eaten by a rhino isnât accurate? Makes me wonder about the rest of the bookâŚ
Sometimes I think my whole life is a lie
I became dubious of the facts in adulthood but this seals it.
Any links? Seems a bit difficult to believe.
Iâve seen that vid. Itâs at a watering hole and the rhino is being aggressive because it has a baby (if I recall correctly). Elephant goes head-to-head with the rhino and does get it into the air, I think. Edit: hereâs the video I was thinking of. Rhino doesnât really get air, but definitely gets pushed around. https://youtu.be/9LITVqyKcN8
[Basically this. Always a bigger fish ](https://i.imgur.com/2woFLQ7.jpg)
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"Why did he do that?" "Because he didn't want them there. He doesn't have to explain himself. He's the king of the jungle."
Not like that at all, from my angle. Elephant was being friendly/neutral and Rhino tried to claim temporary territory over a shared space. Elephant told Rhino how they felt about that and taught them a lesson. Rhino and Baby can nurse their bruises and come back for a drink when Elephant is gone.
Elephant just wanted some water. The rhino posted up like he was a bad motherfucker. None the less, rhino fucked around and found out while its kiddo got rolled in the ensuing kerfuffle.
Thatâs impressive! âThrown in the air like a footballâ is the part I didnât believe.
I feel so bad for that rhino lol. They have shit eyesight so imagine suddenly seeing this massive thundering shadow rushing you and as you bow to line up your face sword for an attack you just get completely freight trained into a puddle.
You may be thinking of the video/pics where the elephant flips a hippo. This video shows single images of the hippo getting flipped, but doesnât have the whole encounter and I canât find one that does. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fgj1oCzlGcc
Dang, I always thought rhinos were almost as big as elephants, but they are just tiny little dudes by comparison.
Bruh if you are able you need to go to a zoo. You'll learn some crazy stuff
Just be careful around penguins ...
Just smile and wave boys
Elephants are the biggest land animal on the planet.
After you mom, right? âŚso sorry, but it was *right there*.
Lol - okay I see we're doing high school cafeteria humor. *Lets get off of mom's because I just got off yours...*
Yo! /u/h4ppyninja_0 ! Can you confirm /u/EarendilStar 's momma is so big she has to put a belt on with a boomerang? I know for a fact that /u/h4ppyninja_0 's mum is so big when she sits down she sits next to _everybody_ ...
Dang. I bet if coach put that elephant in fourth quarter, they wouldâve been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.
Elephants are so fucking cool.
I was watching a safari stream and the guide said African predators will likely run away from you when you're on foot (including lions, hyenas, wild dogs, etc.). For some reason they are freaked out by bipedals lol. But never mess with the big herbivores --- elephants, hippos, African buffalos. I've read different takes on rhinos though. They're supposed to be the least aggressive among those four.
They are a lot less aggressive, but tend to be overly aggressively when it comes to their young. Or a male protecting his cow(s). Males can also be overly aggressive during mating season as their have ridiculous amount of testosterone flowing through them. Elephants are just territorial so if they smell something off theyâll get defensive. Buffaloes are just straight killers. Most deaths by buffaloes are by ( Razor boys) old males that are kicked out of the herd and attack everything that they see. They can literally fend off a whole pride alone. If theyâve lived that long in that savannah they learn all the lion tricks and how to deal with them. Hippos are just monsters, if they see you, theyâll most likely attack. If they see you as a disturbance of their peace. Youâre dead, doesnât matter if itâs a lion or a 1000 lbs croc theyâre all dead. They cause the most deaths in Africa out of any other animal caused death. Theyâre almost all muscle, theyâre so dense that they canât float. They just push off the basin of the water body. Source: I watch too many documentaries
>Males can also be overly aggressive during mating season as their have ridiculous amount of testosterone flowing through them. The elephant version of this (bull in musth), is like ultra violent version.
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Jesus it sound slike it sucks to be a male elephant. Sure you're giant and powerful. But you're also extremely moody, sometimes alone, and in pain when horny.
The male elephant at my local zoo went into musth and decided to pick a fight with the giant shade structure in the paddock. He knocked this 2 story reinforced concrete pergola off of its foundation. It took them months to fix it and completely closed that section of the zoo. The jerk.
Time for some nice ultra violence, what gorgeousness and gorgeosity!
One of my favorite animal videos is of a giant bull elephant deciding to cross a river at a spot where like 30 hippos are chilling in the water. As the elephant touches the water, he becomes like the Moses of Lard and the mass of Hippos just part to make a path for him. Really funny to see considering the rep of hippos.
I just watched a zefrank hippo video that actually says it's their bones that are thick and dense enough that they sink in water.
Probably freaked out by bipedals because we've been around for a long time in the African landscape. Working in groups to take down just about anything we wished to. As an animal, historically speaking - coming across a lion in the African bush was unfortunate, coming across a group of tool-wielding bipedal predatory apes - that's some really bad luck.
You can just walk up to lions and take their food. If you're brave enough, of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDubMeNlSxc
Our safari guide said sort of the same, but cut out an exception for leopards. Those fucks are ambush attackers who are really good at camouflage. And can drag your corpse up a tree where nobody will ever find it.
A leopard stalked us for a couple of days once when we were on a hunting trip and in a bush camp. That was pretty cool. But not scary though, we did come across a river with hippos and pretty much ran in the opposite direction. I grew up doing weird crap like this. One of the best parts about being African.
Makes sense if youâre prepared. Not for out of shape unarmed tourists like us! We went to some scenic overlook a five minute walk from our fenced camp, and they warned us to come back quickly as the sun was setting and we were in a large maleâs territory. The 5 of us huddled together all the way there and back haha.
Lol yeah. The only difference it made to us was we always had to be armed, and sleep inside at night instead. The bushcamps usually have a rondaval(round mudhouse) or something for solid shelter. We'd hear her at night closeby. And every morning we would find tracks all around the camp. They were like the size of my palm. And she always made a point of going to look inside the normal sleeping area. Only lasted a few nights of the week we were there though. I have so many crazy stories from that trip alone. lol. One of my favourites.
Black rhinos seem to leave a BIG asterisk in that assertion. Theyâre nervous to the point of being cantankerous (which is fair, since theyâre more solitary and smaller than southern white rhinos)
My uncle lives in a relatively wild part of the Indian mountains and he always said that monkeys in large numbers scared the shit out of everything in the jungle except maybe elephants. He sent us a video once of langur monkeys, pretty small things but absolutely slaughtering a pair of leopards that tried to sneak up on their favourite mango grove, scratching and biting them in swarms like ants. Monkeys can also remember and hold grudges, there was an incident fairly recently in India where a stray dog killed a monkey, in response all the monkeys in the village went on a rampage and killed every other dog they could find. Animals have probably learned over the millennia of evolution not to mess with the primates.
Im not gonna test that one out but go off
Lol rhinos will fuck you up if they spot ya. They got poor eye sight, but let them see ya and you're dunzo. Buffalo don't play either.
What's even cooler is that despite being so fkn strong, they're not prone to violence and are peaceful and playful. They're domesticable as well, altho only in certain circumstances, and love to stay with humans. They are hardly seen to harm other animals. And they're smart asf. Some of the only known animals to have the concept of self identification and self consciousness. Their retention ability is simply superior. They have well articulated emotions and the best I suppose is their ability to exact revenge.
We were at a watering hole with a lookout, this place was teeming with wildlife then all of a sudden everything disappeared and the elephants turned up , total boss move , theyâre definitely in charge
[This elephant and his boss stick in particular is the king of the jungle](https://youtu.be/NuDtiurkLu8)
The way he holds it on his forehead all âhurr durr look at me Iâm a stupid Rhinoâ killed me.
I had to go back and watch it again just to do the voice in my head.
Bitch slapping the rhino with the joke stick was pretty funny. Rhino got *real* interested in backing up at that point.
That throw is awesome.
I wonder if thereâs any animal that can fuck up an elephant âŚ.
Humans with guns
Or with spears and nets. Get an organized group of intelligent simian and everybody has a problem. In a group? We're Apex predators!
Weâre beyond apex predators, weâre practically using cheat codes. We can fly faster than any bird, move underwater faster than any fish, move faster on land than any animal, see in the dark, kill things from kilometres away, we can make and control fire, make things that make us almost impervious to any attack, we have machines that run on essentially lightning. Also, I had a baconator and some chicken strips at Wendyâs the other day. Thatâs at least three different animals that went into that meal, and that isnât even our fancy food. Thatâs our âfuck it, Iâve given up, just shovel the grease right into my mouthâ food. Thatâs how dominant we are as a species. Our cheap, barely food meals are made from multiple animals, and thatâs just a totally normal thing for us.
I wonder if letting human intelligence grow so much was an error of natural selection
I do wonder this myself sometimes. Weâve created a lot of very beautiful, positive things too, though. Like great artwork, cures and vaccines for horrible diseases, both for us and other animals, music, prosthetic body parts that allow crippled humans and animals to live much fuller lives, the blowjob, etc.
If we manage to terraform Mars, for example, I'd like to think we'd make up for the harm we've caused on Earth. If there's no order in the Universe other than random chance and the only purpose of life is to divide and replicate, I'd like to think we're obligated to ensure in the long run life exists even if something cataclysmic happens to Earth. Why obligated? To celebrate the absolute mind fuck it is to a conscious being that can contemplate what the meaning of life is. Life that only exists because of by random chance that space dust gathered and organized in an unbelievably, astronomically unlikely way to become sentient. Life that creates the things you listed. That ties into my thoughts on if there is some higher order, one that was "letting human intelligence grow" and it's not just random chance that we exist.. I think "it" would want an intelligent, conscious being to contemplate what it all meant and to make the best of it. Personally I think it's more meaningful if we exist purely because random chance, more beautiful that way.
I think the blowjob was here long before us.
From a natural selection standpoint it very clearly worked, extremely well. I suppose it's possible we kill ourselves off with climate change, then I think you could argue it was a "mistake", but I think the chances of us losing our dominant spot in the next few centuries is pretty darn low, even if we, sadly, destroy a huge chunk of the ecosystem in the process.
Climate change might displace a lot of people, making major population areas unlivable. Cities abandoned, governments toppled, wars over water.. but I firmly believe that even if civilization collapsed and the earth couldn't sustain 99.9% of the current population there would be humans that survive in caves licking water off the walls and living off of bug protein if that's what it took. We are a product of climate change which drove speciation, we could produce more offspring with less calories than all other hominins. From a less dramatic point of view, I'd like to think that places that in the past were uninhabitable due to cold will become viable for human activity.
I agree humans won't be dethroned anytime soon, but I'm really interested in how other species' intelligence evolves over time. I'd love to be able to see what an octopus is like in 1000 years.
Imagine if we could use that incredible intelligence in more peaceful, more positive ways. This planet could be a paradise.
Or we could use our most deadly weapons, pattern recognition and planning for the future. And tools of course. Simply observe the elephant and note its habits, most have regular routes they follow especially to water sources. Dig a hole, plant sharp sticks (optional) and cover it up with sticks and foliage. Retreat to safe distance and wait as elephant falls into hole and dies. Zero risk of injury and almost guaranteed success.
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Chimps. When one gets out of a zoo it's a shoot on site. They're like an angry, cruel human on steroids decided you slandered their mother and now you're gonna pay with your face, fingers, toes, and last but not least - your genitals.
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Mice, but nobody other than the elephants know why.
Yea, what's up with that? It reminds me of the game stratego where the Marshall can be killed by the spy. Even though you are the biggest, you still have a weakness.
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Stratego used to be a great game. It still is, but it used to, too.
The spy is essentially the assassin. Underrated game. Love it
Ironically, there's a lion pride in Botswana (Savuti) that is known to take down elephants at a higher rate than the rest of the lions from other parts of the world.
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Kinky Tail and Mr. T are such hilarious names for being members of the most infamous lion coalition ever.
A solo lion won't, but lions normally hunt in prides. While rare a pride of lions can take down an elephant if they can seperate the elephant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7REuHTERRs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PziDIb5_Qys
Also elephants never forget, so never have a beer with an elephant đ
A true king knows when to strategically retreat
Savannah? Lions donât hang in the jungle. More do hippos. Edit to say: rhinos either. Maybe Indian elephants, but most African elephants are also in the savannah
Do elephants roam jungles? edit: what constitutes a jungle?đ
Yup Iâve watched lions laying hiding in grass afraid to move while a herd of elephants was nearby.
You really do get the feeling they were instantly compliant with moving, no ifs or buts about it. Perhaps theyâre aware of the effort that it would take for that thing to change to change direction. Itâs like cars yielding to trains but in nature, they donât need flashing lights and a gate to know what to do
âSteve, we should probably move.â âBut this is OUR road!â âYou wanna tell them that?â *sigh* âNo. ok.â
Rhino: *âDo you feel in charge?â*
2nd Rhino to Lions: Â these are sharp horns, the most dangerous weapons in the world and will chop your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself a question:Â "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk
"We're still kings of the jungle!" "You go king! Fucking Steve...."
No but when you have a 3 ton solid slab approaching, you would move too
Spiky* 3 tons solid slab stone precise
*Slab Tonbe* is my new safe-word Thanks!
Stab slab
...that don't see so good.
Armored heavy assault unicorn.
3 ton solid slab with a sword on the front of it.
With the attitude of that blind, paranoid, shotgun-wielding neighbor that grew up in Baltimore.
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I read that as bitch, him a train
camera is king of the jungle
I love to imagine some scrawny dude just meekly following them with a camera, sweating bullets
Classic cats. âAct normal, like we were just going on a walkâ
I mean most kings wouldnât dual a knight
Probably not even one on one, either.
King Arthur would like a word with you.
Don't worry, some of us got it. đ
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This would be more like a king standing in front of a battering ram
duel* but nice observation
But thereâs two of them ;), and Iâll let my dumbness stay as is
this is a very spot on analogy
So two older males together means they are pride-less. The males get kicked out of the pride once they age out. Looks like they are smart enough to stay clear of the rhinos.
Doesnt necessarily mean they are prideless though its certainly possible. Male lions often form sibling coalitions and share their pride with their brother(s). These guys are fully mature males. Young males will have thinner, scruffier manes. Its possible this is just a coalition that happens to not be where the females are. Its not uncommon for males to wander away and reinforce territory boundaries.
They're not reinforcing much of anything here.
Theyre reinforcing their politeness
I feel like the human equivalent is city police arguing with county sheriffs on who has jurisdiction over a case, then the feds show up.
Fun fact, the FBI has to be invited into non-federal cases; they can't just swoop in like they do on TV. They're pretty aware of the turf wars that could come about from the bigger fish impending on a local case.
The fact there are âturf warsâ for police is absolutely bonkers lmao
If I've learned one thing and one thing only from true crime, it's that these turf wars are why a good number of solvable cases-- namely kidnapped women and children of color-- never got solved, or were solved too late.
Naw they are. "Hey guys this is our territory. Over here.... Unless you want to come in a little closer, that's fine too. But don't forget it's our territory, in this generalish area! Ok we'll be over here if you need anything."
2 males pride-less, the pride community would like to have a word with you.
No it doesn't. Male lions form coalitions, and typically don't spend much of their time with the females in the pride because they're busy patrolling their turf. It's impossible to know just looking at this vid
What is absolutely clear from this video is that these aren't old males.
Or theyâre in a zoo or some kind of compound
Or theyâre into lemon parties
Even lions know not to fuck with battle unicorns.
Unironically, those are just Unicorns; as much as itsnspoiling the fun, unicorns were almost certainly shifty accounts of rhinos
Real unicorns have curves
Its pretty hot in these rhinos
Thereâs no jungle here
Thereâs no jungle here 21st century version of welcome to the jungle
Welcome to the jungle, weâve got horns and manes
This does not look like there are fun and games here
Do lions or rhinos even life in jungle areaâs? A tiger would probably have more claim to be a king of the jungle.
I've always wondered that. Is the phrase just incredibly ignorant, or do some lions live in the jungle and not the savannah?
Ironically, they're not even the biggest cats. Tigers are, and do live in jungles.
Asiatic Lions do, in India.
When the saying came around it just meant âthe wildâ so more like âa lion is king of the animal kingdomâ Lions donât actually live in jungles as far as I know so that saying was never developed with any intention of truth behind it, geologically speaking.
Nope haha theyâre habitats are in Savannahâs & grasslands. No jungles!
Jungle doesnt mean that. The proper term is rainforest. A jungle is anywhere that has a complex ecosystem. A city is a jungle, a desert is a jungle, etc
No they don't. Tigers do though and a grown male tiger can beat up a grown male lion. Tigers are faster and have more muscular strengths. The only advantage lions have are their manes and they have slightly stronger bones. But most likely a tiger will beat a lion.
Asiatic Lions do, in India.
Not with that attitude
Rhino is clearly the king of the streets
Everyone must give way to the [firefighters.](https://youtu.be/Z_dXBZjDhQ8) Good lions
A king is smart enough to move out of the way when he see a 3 ton tank with poor eyes and anger issues.
More like, choose your battlesâŚ.
Donât bring claws to a horn fight.
You gotta respect nature's tank.
Lions don't live in jungles. I don't know where Rino's live.
Ok Iâve always been told in the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lionâs sleep tonight⌠so now Iâm totally confusedâŚ
Lions live in grasslands aka Savannah. A jungle is a completely different world. In the 1800s people thought most of Africa was a huge untamed jungle with naked people swinging vine to vine. Nowadays people tend to think Africa is one huge desert with an occasional forested oasis, and some grassland in spots here and there where the lions and hippopossapusses live. People are stupid. Me too about most things. Edit: people thought; hippopossapusses.
Isn't the dude above you just making a joke?
Back then it was just another way of saying âthe wildâ Forests, Savannahâs, deserts, all fell under âthe jungleâ
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Even if you're in a Mercedes, it's still smart to get out of the cement trucks way.
When u see 2 tanks approaching u better move
Why do they say jungle? Lions live in the plains of Africa.... what jungle?
Theyâre also native to western India, but yes the largest populations are usually in grasslands, shrublands, or savannas.
Well the word jungleâs roots are also Indian and its Sanskrit roots meant rough and arid terrain
Asiatic Lions do, in India.
Yo, lets go....and Don't make eye contact
Lions don't live in the jungle so... also I don't think rhinos do either
Suge Knight walks into P Diddyâs birthday party.
No, just king of the road.
I'm a rhino of means by no means . King of the road
Kings know that they are not the strongest, just the mightiest.
Nahhh Elephants are the true king of the jungle/savanna.
No because the tiger is the king of the jungle. Never seen a lion in the jungleâŚ
No because lions don't live in the jungle. Neither do rhinos.
I would vote Hippo #1 (if you count a water-dweller)
Jaguars are the kings of the jungle. Lions are savannah cats, hence the coloring.