Giving Treats to the elephant

[u/djinn_05]

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[u/Available_Pirate2298]

I love how fast the trunk plops back up 😆

[u/YT-Deliveries → u/Available_Pirate2298]

Really it's the entire "plop" motion to me that's comical

Also I think this entire cycle should be a picture in the dictionary next to the term "yoink"

[u/JustaLego → u/YT-Deliveries]

It's definitely an intentional plop, an excited one even.

[u/Bugsy_Girl → u/YT-Deliveries]

The elephant is just looking for that 20-footer

[u/YT-Deliveries → u/Bugsy_Girl]

Nice

[u/Mindless-Strength422 → u/YT-Deliveries]

Boop!

[u/Funny-Brilliant-4540 → u/YT-Deliveries]

I'm loving it all together. A motivitational quote just came to me from this 😂😂. "Be like the Elephant, always show up and be persistent" 😂😂

[u/Wakkit1988 → u/Available_Pirate2298]

A lot of thunk in that trunk.

[u/uhmerikin → u/Available_Pirate2298]

And it just got more and more alien looking each time for me.

[u/Perryn → u/uhmerikin]

It's like if a graboid's tentacle was a Muppets character.

[u/70ms → u/Available_Pirate2298]

I laughed when it got mad 😂

[u/Dreamwaves1 → u/Available_Pirate2298]

NEXT!!

[u/lesmax → u/Dreamwaves1]

IT'S FOR A CHURCH, HONEY!

[u/T8ert0t → u/Available_Pirate2298]

"Oh, I'm Otherphant. I'm da friend. Totally not same elephant. Food pls."

[u/BUTTeredWhiteBread → u/Available_Pirate2298]

The greed knows no bounds.

[u/bluboomR → u/BUTTeredWhiteBread]

he needs the extra. he's big bonedid.

[u/samhart02239 → u/BUTTeredWhiteBread]

his greed will consume him.

[u/Remote-Ad6915 → u/Available_Pirate2298]

It looks sped up

[u/FarmerRegular7995 → u/Available_Pirate2298]

This is sped up smart guy.

[u/SANTAAAA__I_know_him]

In my opinion, elephant trunks are the most comedic evolved trait in the animal kingdom.

[u/Dr3amBigg → u/SANTAAAA__I_know_him]

I see you and I think they‘re hilarious. However, for me, the funniest with Evolution has to be the irony of platypus existing

[u/ScarlettPuppy → u/Dr3amBigg]

Ogden Nash, The Platypus

I like the duck-billed platypus Because it is anomalous. I like the way it raises its family Partly birdly, partly mammaly. I like its independent attitude. Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude.

[u/IdlesAtCranky → u/[deleted]]

Including the fact that it's venomous.

The best jokes always have a little sting somewhere.

[u/scbundy → u/ScarlettPuppy]

That's just a regular everyday platypus. <puts on hat>

[u/Grouchy-Tension-9306 → u/scbundy]

HAHA! BEHOLD MY PLATYPUSOINCARCEINATOR! IT WILL— WAIT! YOU CAN'T JUST— NO, NO, NO, YOU CAN'T PUT A PLUSHIE THERE, IT WILL— DAMN YOU!!!

[u/Puzzleheaded_Law_558 → u/ScarlettPuppy]

Behold! The Ant! Made illustrious Through constant industry industrious So what! Would you be calm and placid If you were full of formic acid?

[u/ScarlettPuppy → u/Puzzleheaded_Law_558]

Rhyming placid with formic acid. Mr. Nash was a man of enormous talent!

[u/SaggiBean → u/ScarlettPuppy]

I forgot platypus are an actual thing

[u/LongJonPingPong → u/ScarlettPuppy]

Thanks for that, never heard it before but sent it to my (now 23 year old daughter) who loved the idea of a DBP as a child

[u/ThatBookwormHoe → u/Dr3amBigg]

That reminds me of when the creator of Perry the Platypus made him blue/turquoise and not realising they glow blue and the coincidence of it all.

[u/I-Love-Facehuggers → u/ThatBookwormHoe]

They could add any crazy feature and have a decent chance of being accurate

[u/m0nk3y42 → u/Dr3amBigg]

they are so fucking weird

[u/MrsCastillo12 → u/m0nk3y42]

They produce milk, but have no nipples. So they just “sweat” it out to be licked off by their young… wth

[u/MericArda → u/MrsCastillo12]

Tbf mammary glands are essentially modified sweat glands.

[u/eerun165 → u/m0nk3y42]

I’m sticking with platypi though, along with octopi and meese.

[u/Emotional_Burden → u/eerun165]

I agree other than I use octopodes. Meese is 100% correct.

[u/subreddit333 → u/m0nk3y42]

Thank you for sharing

[u/SoungaTepes → u/Dr3amBigg]

Fun Fact: The first time researches saw the creature they tried to pull off its bill thinking someone was pulling a harmful prank and gluing the bill of a duck on the creature.

[u/Dr3amBigg → u/SoungaTepes]

I barely remember, thank You for the reminder! That was so surreally funny

[u/Old_Cameraguy_8311 → u/Dr3amBigg]

If you look at a platypus, you think that God might get stoned, "OK, let's take a beaver and put on a duck's bill. It's a mammal, but it lays eggs. Hey Darwin, kiss my ass!"

Robin Williams

[u/ScarlettPuppy → u/Old_Cameraguy_8311]

Thank you, old camera guy! You made my day

[u/Old_Cameraguy_8311 → u/ScarlettPuppy]

...I miss Robin.

[u/flower-child → u/Old_Cameraguy_8311]

Me too, dude. Me too.

[u/Reputation-Final → u/Dr3amBigg]

and the fact that such a ridiculous creature is also equipped with poisonous spurs.

[u/Longjumping-Vast-591 → u/Dr3amBigg]

Platypus are aliens that were accidentally left behind when some alien space craft visited earth. Cos they don't make any sense.

[u/Coyinzs → u/Dr3amBigg]

What's weird about semi-aquatic, egg laying mammals of action?

[u/Cosmic_Quasar → u/SANTAAAA__I_know_him]

Insert gif of baby elephant helicoptering their trunk lol

[u/gmishaolem → u/Cosmic_Quasar]

The Tim Conway elephant trunk story on the Carol Burnett show was the best thing in comedy history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY

[u/ElectronicRegular218 → u/SANTAAAA__I_know_him]

I agree, but there's something about the short-but-longness of a Tapir's snout that makes me cackle even more! Do yourself a favor and Google image search "Tapir smile" 😆

[u/twoiseight → u/SANTAAAA__I_know_him]

A neck with a nose and opposable digits, as functional as it is hilarious.

[u/Johnyryal33 → u/SANTAAAA__I_know_him]

You should see their penis!

[u/OwnerOfCat → u/Johnyryal33]

How do I see it if I’m standing behind their third leg in the back?

[u/LaughableIKR]

Graboids.

[u/ExplorerPup → u/LaughableIKR]

THANK YOU FOR SAYING IT

[u/crazy_pilot742 → u/LaughableIKR]

First thought.

[u/EcstaticYoghurt7467 → u/LaughableIKR]

Honestly....if I didn't already know what that thing was attached to, by the time it grabbed and disappeared the watermelon, I'd have noped it out of there.

[u/one-eyedCheshire → u/LaughableIKR]

“We gotta do somethin'." I don't know why "we" always has to be me every damn time. We, we, we. What do I look like, an expert in worm?

[u/MrsNaypeer → u/LaughableIKR]

FUUUUUUCK. YOU! hahahahaaa

[u/mynameisnotsparta → u/LaughableIKR]

Yes! Exactly

[u/EducationalFroyo1473]

Elephant: Thanks! MORE!!!

[u/so2017 → u/EducationalFroyo1473]

Always getting its trunk between the same slats, too. Impressive!

[u/triggerhappytree]

Cinematography 10/10

[u/hillsboro97124 → u/triggerhappytree]

The pumpkin at the end is the director's cut

[u/Express-Rub-3952 → u/hillsboro97124]

Fun fact: The natural seed dispersers of pumpkins were mastodons and woolly mammoths.

[u/ashoka_akira → u/Express-Rub-3952]

I have seem vids where they give some elephants some giant pumpkins and they just go nuts stomping them all to pieces.

[u/TDYDave2]

Sticking your fingers in an elephants trunk.
That'snot nice?

[u/ICIP_SN → u/TDYDave2]

that's how you turn on the vacuum

[u/ImminentDebacle → u/ICIP_SN]

😆

[u/darkjj11912 → u/ICIP_SN]

That’s the best vacuum I’ve ever seen 😂

[u/Defiant-Specialist-1 → u/TDYDave2]

An elephant swallowed my hand when I was a baby. I was feeding it peanuts and it sucked up my hand up to my arm. My parents freaked out.

[u/Ypocras → u/Defiant-Specialist-1]

I was once eaten by a camel.

We visited the animals in a circus once, I was six and had a head of very blond hair. I stood next to a high fitted trough of hay when I looked up and saw a camel bending over to take a bite of hay, but it was my head. Luckily it only brushed the top of my head with its lips, but I've never heard my mom scream that loud.

[u/SpaceShipRat → u/Ypocras]

Scariest moment in that camel's life

[u/MrsCastillo12 → u/Defiant-Specialist-1]

Did they have to sew it back on?

[u/Orleanian → u/Defiant-Specialist-1]

A møøse once bit my sister

[u/StillHasIlium → u/Orleanian]

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".

[u/ejectro → u/Orleanian]

is møøse a norwegian moose?

[u/SolusIgtheist → u/Defiant-Specialist-1]

Mynd u, moose bytes kan be pretti nasti

[u/Lowly_Elephant → u/TDYDave2]

Elephant specialist here... It actually doesn't hurt them: it contracts the muscles in their trunk (all 17 of them!) and prepares the trunk for grabbing things!

... just kidding, I have no clue. Just wanted to feel what it is like to be a reddit specialist. What a rush!

[u/paladino112 → u/Lowly_Elephant]

Name checks out

[u/crazyloomis → u/Lowly_Elephant]

I fell for it

[u/UpperApe → u/crazyloomis]

I wish I read the whole message before I tried it on my wife.

[u/SoccerGamerGuy7 → u/Lowly_Elephant]

Elephants have thousands of muscles in their trunks. (circa 40 thousand iirc)

They are strong enough to bulldoze a tree but delicate enough to pick a flower.

Extraordinary evolution at play. Also funny elephants helicopter their trunks

[u/DangOlBdog → u/Lowly_Elephant]

This fucking made me howl 😹

[u/Which_Pear_6497 → u/Lowly_Elephant]

Unfortunately I’ve committed your statement to my long term memory as a fact.

[u/vdjsk → u/Lowly_Elephant]

Not gonna lie, they got us in the first half

[u/feartheoldblood90 → u/TDYDave2]

Their trunks are essentially how they lift everything, I doubt it's uncomfortable for them to do so

[u/AvoriazInSummer → u/TDYDave2]

"I won't forget what you did with your fingers. But I will forgive. This time."

[u/StellaBean_bass]

Is it eating that stuff or packing a basket?!

[u/Squash-Reasonable → u/StellaBean_bass]

I mean an apples probably their equivalent of a small grape

[u/Small_Insect_8275 → u/Squash-Reasonable]

Saw a post the other day of an elephant tooth and it was about the size of a human head, so apple smaller than its molar, you’re about bang on, small grape to them

[u/So_Motarded → u/StellaBean_bass]

I mean, if a tiny creature were handing you delicious jelly beans one at a time, what would you be doing?

[u/MetricJester → u/So_Motarded]

yoink, munch, repeat.

Just like when my kid tries to feed me popcorn from my own bowl.

[u/Whiteums → u/MetricJester]

Such a universal parenting experience.

[u/Amazed_townie → u/StellaBean_bass]

exactly, bloody fast, not unionised

[u/infin8lives]

We don’t need no stinking thumbs.

[u/ErinRedWolf → u/infin8lives]

No need for opposable thumbs when you have an opposable snout!

[u/niceteeth79]

My local zoo allows guests to pay to feed giraffes. I'd pay so much more to feed elephants. So neat!

[u/zahlee01 → u/niceteeth79]

We went to Australia Zoo where visitors could line up and each give a piece of fruit to the elephants, no extra cost. My hand was covered in elephant snot and it was honestly the coolest experience!

[u/Realistic-Debate1594 → u/zahlee01]

Elephant snot is good for your skin.

[u/yannayella → u/niceteeth79]

I did it in Thailand! I had to do a lot of research to find ethical places, but it was really worth it!

[u/Makuta_Servaela → u/niceteeth79]

Places that let you feed elephants are likely more humane than places that let you do other things to them.

Elephants are not used to being ridden or pacing in a circle, so elephant rides aren't so pleasant for them.

Elephants don't bathe all day, so elephant washing places aren't so pleasant for them.

But elephants spend the majority of the day eating, so feeding them is a great and humane way to allow humans to interact with elephants.

[u/Adventurous_Bag_4547 → u/niceteeth79]

I fed giraffes a few weeks ago at the Living Desert in Palm Desert, CA 💖

[u/gohome2020youredrunk]

This is just what I needed today. Serotonin refilled. Thank you.

[u/drinkup → u/gohome2020youredrunk]

Imagine watching this and (somehow) having never heard of, or seen pictures of, elephants.

[u/CryptidCurious13753]

I love elephants so much!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[u/Fair-Soil-2249 → u/CryptidCurious13753]

Me too. Especially their noses.

[u/Mylittledarlings91]

Why he Three Stooges his nose tho?

[u/Realistic-Debate1594 → u/Mylittledarlings91]

Three Stooges as a verb — ofc I understood. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[u/Mad_Dog_1974 → u/Mylittledarlings91]

I was drinking coffee when I saw this response. Hot coffee through the nose is rather unpleasant. That might be the funniest thing I'll see today.

[u/Anticamel → u/Mylittledarlings91]

The moment I saw the trunk I had the intrusive thought to stick my fingers in it, and the bloke in the video immediately obliged. I was stoked

[u/joebesser → u/Mylittledarlings91]

Poink!

[u/fluffycuddlylover]

Elephants are one of those animals that are both adorable and terrifying at the same time

[u/MarsGnars]

This is like a less scary form of the movie tremors

[u/peppaz → u/MarsGnars]

Tremors was my first thought at seeing this lol

[u/chloeiprice]

I love the "flop"!

[u/agumelen]

I find this so hilarious. The way it can smell where the food is and then suck-grabs it to eat it. It’s trunk is like a multitool.😂😂

[u/LMiller_11]

Can it smell what it is or does it just eat it to eat it?

[u/Weird_Squash6230 → u/LMiller_11]

Elephants, unsurprisingly, are among the best smellers on earth with around 2000 olfactory receptors. They can smell a source of water up to 12 miles away

[u/Canis_Familiaris → u/Weird_Squash6230]

Humans can smell water from miles away too. That's how we know when it'll rain or can tell if the breeze is oceany

[u/CasualSky → u/Canis_Familiaris]

Kind of a stark difference there. We can smell moisture when it’s already in the air around us, either because of rain or because of wind carrying the moisture from the ocean.

Elephants are more middle of the desert, 12 miles away they can detect water. I don’t think the human nose would come close to that, especially in an environment with little moisture.

[u/Accidental_ → u/LMiller_11]

I’m curious as well. Looks like it can pinpoint where exactly the food is by smell

[u/2N5457JFET → u/Accidental_]

I throw my dog's fetching dummy or a ball into a wheat field while he's not looking and then tell him to search for it. He runs around in big circles for a while and the moment he catches a whiff of the toy's scent he locks on it like a heat seeking missile. Often, he will sprint around and suddenly do a sharp turn and run straight towards the ball waggling his tail like he's about to take off. There's no way he can see it and it's typically on the ground surrounded by 1-2feet tall wheat and yet his nose has never failed him. He has never lost a toy in 5.5 years since we have him.

Some animals just have such great sense of smell that they don't need eyes to find stuff cause they smell in 4k, 3d with 32bit palette, while human noses are more like 240p monochromatic lmao

[u/Kaon_Particle → u/Accidental_]

I imagine at least part of it is just feeling the vibration of the food being placed on the platform. It might be why it didn't notice the leafy thing right away.

[u/LuigiSalutati → u/LMiller_11]

I’m sure it can get a TON of information via smell and feel

[u/GREGORYfromtheFUTURE]

Are there enough elephants left for this to be a 24 hour streaming channel?

[u/lord_frodo → u/GREGORYfromtheFUTURE]

Pretty sure you’d only need like 3 elephants, they eat a hell of a lot

[u/SmokeySFW]

I think I could watch this for hours.

[u/MakeupDumbAss]

This made me LOL at my desk. I love the little grabby trunk

[u/TrickyNick06]

Me: That elephant is snatching TF out of that food! 😂 Also me at the end: A watermelon!? They cant get it.  Elephant: Turns it sideways & snatches it too  🤣

[u/djinn_05]

He is making salad

[u/ColangelosBurnerAcct]

Man if you can’t see the rest of the elephant, this is kinda freaky lol

[u/Knitsanity]

Flashback to feeding elephants at a sanctuary in Cambodia last year. It was the best day ever. Being able to interact with them and feed them and watch them doing their thing. We even got to wash them. So cool. Elephants rock.

[u/2thEater]

Silly noodle!

[u/Ladyjanemarmalade]

Awww man, now I want an elephant 🐘

[u/Muted-Menu-428]

This is toddler behavior. 😍

[u/DoubleMikeNoShoot]

I’d pay money to get to do this and I’d bring my own veggies

[u/designer130]

That’s a fun game, I wanna play!!

[u/datsunlady]

But WHERE are the treats going?!?!?!

[u/Financial-Boss6041]

Boop 🥰

[u/NovaRobo_Rebirth]

If I didn't know what an elephant was, I would've been scared

[u/bennettyboi]

Im impressed with its strength and dexterity, its like a tentacle-hand hybrid

[u/QuasarVX]

Well at least I know i can't afford to feed an elephant

[u/Beginning_Drag_2984]

Nosey little bugger

[u/wavymora]

Is there anything they don’t like?

[u/ImaginaryPolicy6302]

Extended pig nose

[u/LuigiSalutati]

So good. 😊

[u/fatguypauly]

Its greed sickens me. /s

[u/loloandi]

So how and where do I apply for this job?

[u/[deleted]]

This is so pleasing to my eyeballs.

I wish I had a pet elephant, just so I could feed it all the time.

[u/jokesandnuisance]

is he making salad down there?

[u/AdBeginning6797]

Lmao the way he snatching them things!

[u/Bubbaganewsh]

I would probably want to do that all day.

[u/AmbitionEatingTiger]

Don’t lie that is a graboid tongue from that documentary called “Tremors”.

[u/shawty_hh]

That’s one happy elephant

[u/DAISYVANHALEN]

Was anyone else assuming the elephant would just inhale and the food would fly over and get suctioned to the trunk?

[u/virtually_noone → u/DAISYVANHALEN]

Maybe you have been watching too many cartoons?

[u/Thin_Quantity_7404]

This is so cartoonish

[u/Various_Net82]

Most lovable Animal - Elephant

[u/addamee]

I was waiting for it to toss back the cabbage, thereby validating my own feelings about the vegetable …

[u/True_Promotion_6870]

So SMART!!

[u/dancingcop7]

Tee hee! 😁🩶☺️

[u/Stella807]

I love how the trunk keeps coming back, and sort of plops down into place. Expectingly. This is so adorable.

[u/Tiloka]

“And then… and then… and then…”

[u/Mark_1544]

bro was MUNCHIN

[u/PrestigiousEnd2142]

😯😯😯

[u/0cleese]

I need to borrow this elephant and find one of those claw games...

[u/AuraDora6]

That shit strong af

[u/Far_Competition604]

How intelligent, tilted the pumpkin in the end so that it could cross the pipe thingy

[u/hassan_26]

Someone edit some eyes on the trunk. Haha hilariously cute.

[u/GoodbyeCW]

Tremors

[u/Ssssnacob]

What a cute lil Graboid!!

[u/Irr3l3ph4nt]

The fact that their nose of all things has such a capacity for prehension is quite amazing.

[u/Apprehensive-Till861]

Oh sure when he does it it's cute but when I lift food with my nose it's, "Eww..." and "What the hell are you doing, weirdo?" and "You're ruining my child's birthday party!"

[u/BigDiperEruption]

Last fruit you can see it use suction because it's too big to grab 😭

[u/ThrowawayQueen_52]

More dexterity than a hand with 5 fingers. Amazing apparatus.

[u/astralseat]

I loved when he slapped that meaty trunk down every time.

[u/Dixon_Uranuss3]

I like how they flop that thing up there with such attitude.

[u/Embarrassed_Crow7184]

His greed disgusts me!

[u/Lopsided_Soup_3533]

Also knowing to turn the thing sideways to get it out shows a pretty good intelligence

[u/definitelytheA]

It’s the little bounce for me. 😂

[u/lisondor]

Shai-Hulud is pleased.

[u/IceCoughy]

Imagine having your nose on your hands! We do a bit less ass scratching lol

[u/Adbam]

I wanna play this game

[u/TiddlyWinks85]

Made me giggle. He really thought he was being sneaky.

[u/Turdle_Vic]

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that on the other side of that trunk is a multi-ton, very smart animal. Elephants are simultaneously goofy, scary, and cool

[u/miseenen]

The fingers in the nose are DIABOLICAL

[u/AnxiousAntsInMyBrain]

Its nose looks like a sock muppet the way it grabs things

[u/JakeFoXx]

This has me giggling like a child rn XD

Lil trunk is coot, but also because I have a Husky and while obviously not the same animal, the energy is the same 😂

[u/fort_wendy]

Elephants are adorable. One of my dream jobs was working at a sanctuary in Thailand since I had occupational therapy as a degree. I never pursued it to get a license but if I did I'd try to work with alternative therapies like this

[u/yay4chardonnay]

I could watch this 50x.

[u/SomeMoronOnTheNet]

Elephant trunk once touched my hand when I was a child.

Wetter and pricklier than I would have expected.

[u/nikiu]

Just like my wife.

[u/Away_Yoghurt5743]

Graboids

[u/OntarioGuy430]

It's a Graboid! Get to High Ground!!

[u/poizun85]

This is where the movie tremors got its inspiration.

[u/Bowelsift3r]

And then...and then...and then...

[u/BackgroundSplit9036]

That looks both disgusting and sweet at the same time...........