Best chicken fight partner ever. And at least he was polite enough to not knock over the beer. PS, this wasn't zoomed it, this was actual distance. **UPDATED: This is NOT a chlorinated pool. FILMED AT www.elephantsands.com/
It killed me how the person filming slowly panned to the left to reveal the 2 people in the pool. I cant even begin to imagine what it would be like to be faced with such a massive beast in such a casual encounter. Elephants are so majestic.
I had an encounter like this. Sitting on the doorstep of a hotel with my brother, a truly enormous bull elephant wandered up to us while we were sitting there enraptured. After a while we were only about 2 metres apart while this big fellow sort of contemplated us. After a minute or so, we heard our dad speak up from the other side of the small building where he was showering (outside). He called out, unable to see us, “oh goodness. there’s an elephant in my shower!” It turned out that another elephant had come up the side to find a drink. They can be so unobtrusive for such enormous creatures. “Boys?” We obviously couldnt say much because of our own predicament, so he thought no one could hear him, and in a very disgruntled voice he said to the elephant on his side of the building. “Oh, no one listens to me anyways” We were desperately holding in our laughter until the big elephant tip toed away.
idk about that considering they decided to build a pool in the middle of the wild where an elephant can just walk in like that. Who knows about other animals that might get thirsty.
What do you mean by “intelligent” they are about as smart as a two year old child. If that is smart to you, you may want to rethink this whole intelligence thing.
The chlorine can’t be good for them, but then they’re probably used to drinking water that literally has shit 💩 in it, so they’ve probably built up immunity to lots of stuff.
@@sshepherd7659 Or salt. I don't think chlorine dehydrates you (little tablets are used for purifying fresh water), but it does destroy important gut bacteria. That's a serious problem for herbivores, but he didn't drink much, so it's probably fine.
The way the whole interaction went and how he just casually strode off into the brush afterwards 😂 like, “Ahhh, that hits the spot! Sure is hot out here. Well, thanks for the water folks, much appreciated. Have a good day now mmmkay?”
I'm glad you mention about the pool not being chlorinated. When the elephant first started to drink the water, I expected him/her to spit it out. The elephant did leave with grace though :)
That was a well-mannered Elephant. He needed water so he walked in nicely, drank as much as necessary for the moment, and left quietly without disturbing the humans.
Not much of an issue here very few animals are aggressive at watering holes, you will find hyenas, lions, elephants, water buffalo, all drinking around the hole without aggression. It is kind of an unwritten rule amidst the animal kingdom and most abide by it save the alligator and crocodile.
I respect these enormous creatures hugely, when you compare them to every other land creature, a grown elephant is the real boss of the animal world. Talk about a live sentient tank and terminator. I cannot think of a single land creature that can singly take them on and win. A lion, tiger, polar bear, rhino, hippo, they're all known to be pretty powerful but they don't hold a candle to a fully grown elephant. They are more than capable of destroying any other animal in their path.
@@po-qo7vd I love such people, everything is about racism and politics for them. Have you ever got to shit yourself by being scared? Can you think a little or you are that much braindead. And for other braindead people who dare not to understand my comment, ye, I was refering to the man shitting himself from the fear.
Astounding. Elephants are such amazing animals. It makes me feel good that such a majestic animal would even want to be near to another animal species (us) that have caused them so much grief.
He was thinking, "Shit, this water is TOXIC!" (with chlorine and other human chemicals, which he's probably never tasted) "They're trying to rufie me - I'm out!"
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The best part is at 0:50 when he is done drinking and suddenly looks first at the person holding the camera and then at the people in the pool as if only NOW realising they're there and then he slowly and awkwardly backs away like going: "Oh....oh. Didn't see you there...well...I think...I think I should go now...yeah...sorry."
I had the same image there! LOL It was like this for me: Elephant softly humming as it walks up to the pool. "Oh... good some water, could use that... Yum..." Sticks trunk in and takes a good gulp... then sees something move he looks over, the water nearly gets stuck at halfway the swallowing. "Oh... eh... sorry, did I... Did I just drink from your water here?" Looks intently at the humans in the water who remain earily silent "I... Oh dear... I guess I did... didn't I? Well ehm... I am sorry... Won't happen again... Bye!" and the elephant makes a quick exit, but if one were to listen closely one could hear the elephant mumble on its way out "Trust it to humans to make delicious waterplaces right in the smack walkway of us elephants who have roamed these planes for centuries!!!! Grmph... I will just wait till they leave and drink all the water. That will teach them..." :P Ah well sometimes one has to endulge ones fantasy a bit....
SimGandr That is not the scenario. One wrong move and it would have been messy. They don't like humans at all. Trust me I have seen them live. He just backed off since he didn't feel threatened. The humming is irritation. You saw he was watching them sideways as he is leaving. Try sudden movement and nothing can save you.
They are the boss of the animal kingdom. No other land creature on its own would stand a chance against a fully grown elephant. Polar Bear, Tiger, Hippo, Lion, Rhino, whatever the fuck. A grown ass elephant will wreck any other land creature.
I have a lot of admiration for those beasts due their boss status of the animal kingdom. They are literally a sentient tank. No other land creature would be able to take them down on their own, and a bare handed human is like an ant in comparison.
@The Caped Baldy For real? A single hippo or rhino wouldn't stand a chance. They may be badass but as if a single one can take down a creature of an elephant with that height and weight. Elephants are a machine of annihilation.
I love how at 0:47 he notices the person filming him, then sees the people in the pool and just looks like he's saying "Oh I uhhh... Didn't know there were... I'm just going to leave now." then flaps his ear as if to wave bye.
@Retarded_Squid 2000 Elephants will attack people depending on the situation. Females have a higher chance attacking people then males. Females are prone to attacking if they have a baby by there side, and females without tusks or also prone to attacking. Males attack more during the mating season. It's probably likely the elephant didn't see the people as potential problems as long as they didn't make any sudden movements. Though, the camera person got its attention for a little bit.
WOW!!! Can you believe how those humans invaded that elephant?!! 🤯They came out of nowhere and just put a pool out there and acting like they're shocked to see AN ELEPHANT out THERE. The poor creature...guy must be stunned!!
Rxonmymind Elephants are more courageous if a Giraffe thinks it will lose a fight it will run for its life if a elephant thinks it will lose it will not run it will fight to the death
They are very smart creatures. The elephant totally has that “Yeah…this is kinda awkward” look before walking. I guess he just wanted a drink, who wouldn’t in the raging African heat?
@@kurtsudheim825 elephants flap their ears primarily to remain cool in hot weather. They have many blood vessels in there and flapping helps the blood cool to regulate their body temp.
