Elephant 'Faa-mai' want to join interview with lek at the Elephant Nature Park and take her to play together. learn more by visit: www.saveelephant.org
I assume elephants can be quite protective to the humans they see as family. And a camera looks comparable to guns to some extend where many elephants have experience with...
The Asian elephant seems to weigh about 3 or 4 tonnes where as your average man would be around 70 kgs or so. So the elephant would be about 43 or 57 humans, so more like 44 or 58 vs 3.
It makes Me wonder, In the wild they will have seen people with guns, Maybe the elephant thinks the cameras are guns, so is trying to protrect it's friend.
David James they are curious animals, his attitude was pretty relaxed, chances are that he wanted to interact with these people, when they feel threatened by something they usually make themselves look bigger and make loud sounds to warn others.
Metonymy1979, yes lol very cute in animals, but can be deadly in humans. Faa mai is already possessive of Lek just like Kham lah with Darrick. This behavior is pure love in animals.
Elephant is not jealous, its protective. Sees her surrounded by 3 dudes and wanted to go make sure she was safe. Hence why it was shunting them back and wrapping its trunk around her.
@@miriam7779 I would trust the elephant over a camera crew. Most people, actually, are not to be trusted. Keep company with all "God's creatures great and small", but with man be very cautious.
From the elephants standpoint this looked like 3 male adversaries were confronting her favourite human, complete with some unknown weapon( the camera ). The elephant simply showed protective maternal behaviour by gently making it’s presence known and corralling the lady back to the safety of the herd.
@@periechontology That elephant can smell the difference between the male and female humans. Most importantly, they know the difference. Incredible animals.
@SlowPro The park officials should rip out the ivory poachers teeth, then burn down their homes, and kill their whole family. I believe poaching would come to a screeching halt. Dead poachers can't poach.
Faa-mai strolls over and is like "You good her, girl? You need back up?" Looks at camera crew "I don't know what you're selling but she ain't buying so you fellas get to steppin!" 😄
I’ve been there before. Not only do they have plenty of kind elephants, but they literally have hundreds of dogs and cats. It’s an animal lovers dream. Do the overnight package do u can sleep in a bungalow nearby the elephants and hear them snore. It’s hilarious (and cheap!) The sunrise is pretty beautiful there, too. After the tour and work load is over you have plenty of hours of basically free reign over the park. You can walk up and greet almost any dog, cat, or elephant you want.
She's quite an el-LAW-phant! jajajajjajajjajajaj! I'm here all week folks!...All fucking week, bored out of my mind, leaving stupid fucking comments. smh
Elephants are such wonderful creatures, they are massive and cute at the same time. You can tell by the playfulness of this elephant that they are being well taking care of and love.
I think she's being very politely protective. It's what you'd observe her doing with another elephant. They protect the herd pretty consistently and the first thing she wanted away from her friend was that camera setup.
I went to Sri Lanka in 2013 and was lucky enough to get to see some elephants up close covering their bodies in mud with their young. This video just brought back some wonderful memories for me. My grandmother told us we had to go on a safari but we were a bit sceptical because other friends of hers went and didn't get to see anything. The tour guide told us we were extremely lucky that day. We got to see many animals when previously they hadn't seen much at all for the last month. I wish I could post the videos I got but sadly my phone broke not long after returning home. I really miss her. My whole point was they're so lucky they got so close to that magnificent animal but I ended up going down memory lane and getting a bit sad
SuperAnime4444 - Possibly, although the interview setup may have looked like a confrontational situation to the elephant- you have these people facing directly head-on to her carer which is an aggressive stance in body-language terms, so my guess is she could see this and came over to check everything was cool, rather than being an attention-seeking effort.
@@K1lostream Nah, if the elephant would have categorized the situation as aggressive or dangerous it would have ran there not slowly walk. Elephants can hear very good, it noticed that the voice of her friend wasn't alarming, the elephant was just jealous like the op said.
WokeAF - I wasn't there, I don't know. Elephants are intelligent and I'm sure it was capable of interpreting a situation and deciding it would stand closer scrutiny without requiring running (which is an expensive thing for an elephant to do). It must be nice being as sure about this sort of thing as you are, though.
@@K1lostream it was pretty obvious and recognisable behaviour. Dogs tend to do the same, like children. They're not used to share. The woman on top of that stated that the elephant wanted her to care for her only - and it basically ignored the crew as soon as she stepped towards the elephant and allowed it to 'embrace' her with the trunk. Oh and elephants run - it is expensive to do for humans as well. That's what adrenaline is for.
corbeau Well, for the first part, like I said, I don't claim to know for sure. When I said running was expensive for elephants, I wasn't talking so much about energy expenditure (although that is true), I meant more in terms of the loads being transferred through their frame and risk of injury which, whilst humans are also at risk of injury when running, the risks go up dramatically as mass increases because it's not a linear relationship.
What a beautiful animal! breaks my heart to see all the poaching & hunting done for the stupidity of their tusks... thank you for working with these majestic animals !
Elephant was like: "What? You want to spend time with her? NO! She's my human friend! I'm not sharing!" Then tries to grab the caretaker and bring her away from the cameras; "NO! Dont go!! I'll miss you!!" XD
You know, I watch a lot of these elephant videos. Only at this place are the elephants so protective of their human that they chase them around with their trunk like another elephant. It’s funny and wonderful and adorable. They are affectionate at other elephant sanctuaries but this one is special.
People underestimate the intelligence of elephants, right here Faa-mai spotted her favourite person surrounded by 3 men. She calmly walks up to the group, letting them know she's there to protect her person.
Now what really happened here is, that was the Elephants pet Human who escaped and found other stray Humans... So like a good Human owner the Elephant went and brought her Human back. What a vigilant and caring Elephant. (:
Faa-mai loves her human friend and wants all the attention so intelligent and emotionally open and honest with her feelings, humans can learn alot, as lots of folks keep their feelings inside instead of just telling people like Faa-mai and many elephants do, dogs also express their emotions in the moment with ease, no walls!
"Its visual acuity is based on movement. Keep completely still." "Wait, have you been watching _Jurassic Park_ dude?" "Oh, yeah, that's tyrannosaurs, not elephants. My mistak----" *SPLAT*
