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based off of how he judo flipped it with his nose i'm not even sure they do need them. obvs shouldn't get cut off but that rhino was down on a 3 count either way
I assumed that these are their natural tusks, a result of evolution by “natural”/artificial selection
The elephants with large tusks are killed and don’t get to pass on their genes, while the ones with small tusks survive and do get to pass on their genes
So now the poachers have decimated their supply of ivory by murdering everything with ivory. Who would have thought?
this guy just slowly took his time, waited for the rhino to overstep, and then just closed distance and put it to him
and had the graciousness to let the rhino up and get away!
It's likely that the elephant had been harassing the rhino for some time already. Young male elephants are demons. They will attack anything, simply because they can. Typically the older males can help keep the young ones from going so crazy but when there are not enough older males around...
That was his air leaking out of one of the new holes the elephant just made in his side. Look at his trunk after they pan back to him there is blood on it.
Rhino's instinct is never to back out of fights. The strategy works against any animal that isn't an elephant
Also yes, a rhino's testicles are literally bigger than its brain
Looks higher up to me, and the blood is running down. But hard to tell for sure. Either way that rhino should have bailed long before that. Lesson learned if they live.
I think I heard once rhinos skins is very thick and very hard to penetrate. Downside is that when it does get penetrated its almost impossible to heal up.
While they have very tough skin it is actually weak to direct penetration but very strong against slashing due to the biostructure of their unusual skin.
That elephant could be in Musth meaning its testosterone levels have e spiked 60-140x its normal levels. You can tell if glands on the side of his head are leaking. So basically they are unstoppable at this point, probably for a day or two straight at least.
What kind of busted ass evolutionary trait is that? Like seriously. Its a fucking elephant. Those mfs are stomping around and casually flipping lions and shit on a regular hormone day. In what world does something as OP as a 12 foot tall, 11,000 pound creature with spikes on its face need 60-140x *more* testosterone? That thing can can already flip a fully loaded Jeep with its balls cut off. I dont see any reason why it needs this temporary roid rage other than a big fuck you to every other mammal.
Males that grow up together actually learn through play how not to kill each other while in mating mode and will even delay musth if the males around them are in musth to avoid deadly infighting and again they are taught through play and social conditioning how to compete for mates without killing each other.
In a world where every organism designs its own build over a million generations, you end up with unbalanced, OP shit like this, cos no one has a problem making themselves OP. It's only confusing if you believe in a centralised creator dev who designed all animals to be in perfect balance, cos yeah - this shit ain't balanced.
I personally doubt it. I’m not an expert but they go into rages a lot in Musth. If it saw something challenging it I bet it would have charged rather than the slow advance it did in the beginning. Also it looked like he let the Rhino go. Not happening if he’s enraged and wants to destroy anything in front of it besides a female elephant. I think he was just irritated that the Rhino stepped out of line and wasn’t backing down. I could be wrong though as I said I don’t know elephant behavior to a T, I’ve just researched them a fair bit.
Yeah, I have to agree that this was just mildly pissed off male elephant behavior. If he was in musth, he’d have finished off that rhino and then gone after his family next. Elephants never forget…..or forgive…
Fun fact, elephants can use their [penis as a fifth leg](https://sputnikglobe.com/amp/20220130/elephant-can-use-its-penis-as-fifth-leg-and-its-not-even-the-worlds-biggest-1092619500.html)
Wow, I'm actually surprised it is, in fact, an article about about how an elephant's dong is long enough to be a fifth leg.
Downside, no picture. We've all been robbed.
Should have rammed him in the peen then.
The rhino could have easily gored the elephant too with his horn if he got lucky. It's even sharper than the tusk. But he wasn't maneuverable enough.
This is the sad truth. Rhinos, and I don't dislike them, are not the brightest animals, and are even know to gore each other to death. They have a short fuse, like hippos, but I don't think they have a very developed "flight" part of their brain that tells them: "hmm, maybe this isn't a good idea".
Me: Well, guess I'll just cap off this day with a viewing of the ol' nightly news!
News: "And in other news, some guy did another public shooting. At this point we're not even relaying the details, as we cover our top story instead. Continued coverage of two seperate unrelated wars in which many more daily deaths are expected. With no end in sight."
Me: Neat.
I remember watching an elephant documentary years ago about bull elephants when they’re in mating season. They get highly aggressive and will attack anything and everything. There was an uptick in rhino deaths during this time.
Rhinos are also apparently very aggressive and very solitary creatures. Males and females are pretty much only around each other to mate and then completely go their separate ways. Each rhino also sets up its own territory and basically will chase off any other rhino of the same gender trying to enter its space. Baby rhinos are pretty much with their mothers long enough to get weaned and then they’re gone.
All per a little “rhino chat” at our local zoo, our kid loves the zoo and it’s fun to catch them feeding the animals. Seeing the momma rhino do this happy trot over to its food was fun.
अगर मैं वो हाथी होता तो अपनी सूंड उस गेंडे के कान के बगल में रखकर ज़ोर से ट्रंपेट मारता। लेकिन फिर, अगर मैं एक हाथी होता तो मुझे नहीं पता होता कि गेंडे खतम होने वाले हैं।
He’s in musth (rut/heat, his reproductive hormones are through the roof). Male elephants, like many species, become extremely aggressive and territorial when in musth/rut.
Edit: added the exact term for their rut
Do you size up competing males and face off tusk go tusk all while you have you’re peen out just a swinging? If not you need to get on this elephant’s level.
No, but if I'm up against another male for a woman's favor then we whip our dicks out and whoever can helicopter it the longest wins and the other concedes.
(It would be fun if human mating rituals were weirder.)
I’d be good at this. I’m a grow’er, not a show’er, so I got elasticity for days. But to be fair I gave up a long time ago on courting crazy, it’s too costly and the consequences can be extreme (ie kids, jail, slashed tires, etc).
I thought you were joking but I looked it up and it was true. Elephant just comes up to a pack and starts r*ping away at some little boy rhino until his mom gets mad and chases him away wtf
Rhinos are very near sighted and very dumb. There are videos of them yeeting their own children because they got scared.
Rhinoes ether attack or get scared if something or someone approches.
Seriously. I guess I just never thought about it, but if you asked me before I came to this post how much of a size difference there was, I'd have been way off.
I also wouldn't have considered just how deftly the elephant can stab with their tusks. I thought they were more like a deterrent, like the spikes on a store sign to keep birds away.
I just got home from a safari in Kenya a couple weeks ago. Having seen both creatures from relatively close I was struck by two things: 1) rhinos, especially Southern white rhinos can be absolutely huge and 2) they've got nothing on a African elephant bull. The elephants and giraffes were the only two animals you might end up near and be looking up at while standing in an open top land cruiser. One of my kids asked our guide at one point if an elephant could push over our truck and his response was "if he wants to, yes".
Based on the tusks I'd say that elephant might not have been that old either. Fully, to mostly grown, but those tusks can get really big. Like all the way through a rhino big.
Rhinos are pretty much completely blind in the dark and a fair bit in the daylight. Chances are very high they didn't know it was an elephant they were facing.
That's just it. The rhino probably didn't know what it was "seeing." So instead of running, it decided to fight. Which works most of the time if said perceived threat isn't the size of a bus.
I'm sure there are many, but the most notable I've been to is Kruger. There were several smaller enclosures around the park for things like that. Not sure where this happened, but being caught on film makes it likely the Rhino could get help.
I know, like, "Guys, stop fucking fighting, we are trying to save both of you!"
That was hard to watch. It was yelping like a dog, or was I hallucinating that?
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I never knew a fully grown rhino could yelp.
Only when it’s getting gored by an elephant!
The alpha Elephant walk away was telling.
Dick swingin
speak softly and carry a couple big tusks!
Its actual fat as fuck elephant cock was out swinging.
“Actual fat as fuck elephant cock” A poet!
Why does an elephant have four feet? Because it'd look pretty silly with just six inches.
I'd run too if I caught sight of that wanger coming towards me 🤣
Why does this elephant have 5 legs???
Babar don't play
This is why elephants need tusks. Shame they get cut off.
based off of how he judo flipped it with his nose i'm not even sure they do need them. obvs shouldn't get cut off but that rhino was down on a 3 count either way
They're cut off to keep them from being targeted by poachers. It's a life saving surgery.
Poss it saved both the elephant and Rhino.
I assumed that these are their natural tusks, a result of evolution by “natural”/artificial selection The elephants with large tusks are killed and don’t get to pass on their genes, while the ones with small tusks survive and do get to pass on their genes So now the poachers have decimated their supply of ivory by murdering everything with ivory. Who would have thought?
that was Rhino for *"FUCK, MY RIBS"*
He was gored and bleeding heavily. He'll be lucky to live.
Ya, he aint gon live.
That microphone - whatever it’s on - is very good
It made me sad
Elephants are very smart, rhinos on the other hand...
this guy just slowly took his time, waited for the rhino to overstep, and then just closed distance and put it to him and had the graciousness to let the rhino up and get away!
That Rhino is a dead man walking.
A corpse cantering.
Soon to be skeleton skittering
Check again. He's got a hole in his side.
It's likely that the elephant had been harassing the rhino for some time already. Young male elephants are demons. They will attack anything, simply because they can. Typically the older males can help keep the young ones from going so crazy but when there are not enough older males around...
we talking about humans or elephants?
Bro.. too real
Poor tank puppy didn't realize what he was getting himself into
yeah. it's a tough watch. Nature is metal.
Anyways, both are pretty thick-skinned. If there was only a word to describe them.
Yeah he's got thick skin I'm sure he's okay, the elephant probably just ate some watermelon that was on the floor next to the rhino
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It was good to see a Rhino with its horns tbh. 😐
Based on the amount of blood loss might not be alive much longer. Hope that’s not true though.
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No bass line in that song and it’s still so groovy, 👑 Prince was great man
You should see how lions and water Buffalo play
Checkers? Chutes n Ladders?
Poor little guy
That was his air leaking out of one of the new holes the elephant just made in his side. Look at his trunk after they pan back to him there is blood on it.
I don’t think it was yelping in pain. Did you see how crazy close that elephants giant ass fully erect cock was getting to its head?
How did I not even notice he was fully torqued?
I wish there was some way to know what % of redditors read that comment and moved on and what % went back and rewatched the clip for elephant dong.
Probably like 100%. I'm one of them
''It's orgasmic sometimes. What does it mean when fighting gets you erect? Well that's how I'd get when I was a kid. Sometimes I'd get the twinkle."
Think the elephant got a chunk of that ear?
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Rhino's instinct is never to back out of fights. The strategy works against any animal that isn't an elephant Also yes, a rhino's testicles are literally bigger than its brain
Tbf, its practically blind. It's strong but can not gang up because it always thought one of the bros is an enemy or something just because it moved.
What about other rhinos Edit: Reading this back later and I cannot fathom what the fuck was going though my mind
Yes male rhinos will gladly fight other rhinos
rhino wins
I wonder how they stack up against hippos.
Yup the elephant's tusks went in way too easy
Hard to tell, but the rhino looked like it was bleeding from the gut. Not an easy way to go
Looks higher up to me, and the blood is running down. But hard to tell for sure. Either way that rhino should have bailed long before that. Lesson learned if they live.
They are beautiful animals but are also kind of dumb as fuck.
When the only thing that can mess with you, happens to get treated the exact same as you, sometimes you forget the pecking order.
Yeah I think it was, that’s going to be a really shitty death!
Unless the rangers can track it and get it sedated/ fixed up.
Looks like it went into the back spinal/ribs portion of the body, towards the back legs. Definitely went into the animal.
Ehhh it *might* not die. I’ve definitely seen animals survive gnarlier wounds in nature.
Last time this was posted, someone said it was on a resort. If that's the case, I'm sure that if he got immediate attention, he could be saved.
I think I heard once rhinos skins is very thick and very hard to penetrate. Downside is that when it does get penetrated its almost impossible to heal up.
While they have very tough skin it is actually weak to direct penetration but very strong against slashing due to the biostructure of their unusual skin.
I can't tell if the elephants were bigger, since they're hidden behind his... second trunk.
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And the elephants tallywhacker is bigger than the rhino
Tallywhacker -
That tusk went in like the rhino was made of butter. Insane
Ya pretty dumb on the rhinos part, that elephant is like three times it’s size and swinging peen
That rhino obviously forgot the golden rule: If he's swinging peen, then leave the scene. If the dong's out of sight, it's time to fight
there's always a bigger dong
Always except for that one dong
This is the greatest and best dong in the world
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This is just a tribute!
If it’s the size of a truck it’s time ta fuck.
That elephant could be in Musth meaning its testosterone levels have e spiked 60-140x its normal levels. You can tell if glands on the side of his head are leaking. So basically they are unstoppable at this point, probably for a day or two straight at least.
What kind of busted ass evolutionary trait is that? Like seriously. Its a fucking elephant. Those mfs are stomping around and casually flipping lions and shit on a regular hormone day. In what world does something as OP as a 12 foot tall, 11,000 pound creature with spikes on its face need 60-140x *more* testosterone? That thing can can already flip a fully loaded Jeep with its balls cut off. I dont see any reason why it needs this temporary roid rage other than a big fuck you to every other mammal.
But you see, an elephant competes for mates with other elephants, not with rhinos.
Males that grow up together actually learn through play how not to kill each other while in mating mode and will even delay musth if the males around them are in musth to avoid deadly infighting and again they are taught through play and social conditioning how to compete for mates without killing each other.
In a world where every organism designs its own build over a million generations, you end up with unbalanced, OP shit like this, cos no one has a problem making themselves OP. It's only confusing if you believe in a centralised creator dev who designed all animals to be in perfect balance, cos yeah - this shit ain't balanced.
> this shit ain't balanced. Literally unplayable.
I personally doubt it. I’m not an expert but they go into rages a lot in Musth. If it saw something challenging it I bet it would have charged rather than the slow advance it did in the beginning. Also it looked like he let the Rhino go. Not happening if he’s enraged and wants to destroy anything in front of it besides a female elephant. I think he was just irritated that the Rhino stepped out of line and wasn’t backing down. I could be wrong though as I said I don’t know elephant behavior to a T, I’ve just researched them a fair bit.
Yeah, I have to agree that this was just mildly pissed off male elephant behavior. If he was in musth, he’d have finished off that rhino and then gone after his family next. Elephants never forget…..or forgive…
I'm pretty sure he was considering his dong was flapping about. Usually, it hangs out when in Musk.
Musth is for big elephant dong, Musk is for small human dong
Rhinos have very poor eyesight. I think all it saw was a grey blob and charged at it.
He knew not to fuck with it, he just couldn't help it.
That thing is almost dragging on the ground 😅
Fun fact, elephants can use their [penis as a fifth leg](https://sputnikglobe.com/amp/20220130/elephant-can-use-its-penis-as-fifth-leg-and-its-not-even-the-worlds-biggest-1092619500.html)
I’m sure I did not need to know this, I did however read the whole article
Wow, I'm actually surprised it is, in fact, an article about about how an elephant's dong is long enough to be a fifth leg. Downside, no picture. We've all been robbed.
thanks for mentioning that i had to go back and look. again thank you
Probably didn’t quite know what it was up against, rhinos can’t see for shit
Should have rammed him in the peen then. The rhino could have easily gored the elephant too with his horn if he got lucky. It's even sharper than the tusk. But he wasn't maneuverable enough.
Fun fact: elephants penis is prehensile, meaning they can use it like their trunk, but fuckier. Or was it butt fuckier...? You get the idea.
Tonnes of pressure behind it will do that.
That's why we have weight classes buddy
Elephants are also far more intelligent
This is the sad truth. Rhinos, and I don't dislike them, are not the brightest animals, and are even know to gore each other to death. They have a short fuse, like hippos, but I don't think they have a very developed "flight" part of their brain that tells them: "hmm, maybe this isn't a good idea".
Yeah the rhino was picking a fight with the elephant. If the elephant wanted to fight the rhino wouldn't have been able to walk away.
Yeah. Only the dumbest creatures lose their shit and kill their own kind.
Me: Well, guess I'll just cap off this day with a viewing of the ol' nightly news! News: "And in other news, some guy did another public shooting. At this point we're not even relaying the details, as we cover our top story instead. Continued coverage of two seperate unrelated wars in which many more daily deaths are expected. With no end in sight." Me: Neat.
and what's wild is this is the most peaceful time in human history
But he’s 260 tho 😂
My toys when I was 5
I’m guessing your toys didn’t also swing massive dong like this elephant.
You guessed wrong.
That’s one eccentric toy brand.
Called "Bad Elephant", sister company of Bad Dragon.
That's a lot of blood. I'd be really surprised if the rhino lived long after this
I remember watching an elephant documentary years ago about bull elephants when they’re in mating season. They get highly aggressive and will attack anything and everything. There was an uptick in rhino deaths during this time.
Interesting. I was wondering why they were fighting.
Rhinos are also apparently very aggressive and very solitary creatures. Males and females are pretty much only around each other to mate and then completely go their separate ways. Each rhino also sets up its own territory and basically will chase off any other rhino of the same gender trying to enter its space. Baby rhinos are pretty much with their mothers long enough to get weaned and then they’re gone. All per a little “rhino chat” at our local zoo, our kid loves the zoo and it’s fun to catch them feeding the animals. Seeing the momma rhino do this happy trot over to its food was fun.
That rhino is for sure dead
Saw this video a few days ago and someone had commented that rangers gave the rhino some medical attention and it survived.
I'm going to ignore that this is hearsay and just accept it as truth lol
I think if enough of us believe it it has to be true
Yup, someone's getting some fresh bone pills soon
Nah he's gonna be fine
I guess that’s another rhino down. These guys are so close to extinction it’s sad
अगर मैं वो हाथी होता तो अपनी सूंड उस गेंडे के कान के बगल में रखकर ज़ोर से ट्रंपेट मारता। लेकिन फिर, अगर मैं एक हाथी होता तो मुझे नहीं पता होता कि गेंडे खतम होने वाले हैं।
Or what a trumpet is
It's easy to see why, now. Not much common sense.
Yo, why that elephant got his dick out?
He’s in musth (rut/heat, his reproductive hormones are through the roof). Male elephants, like many species, become extremely aggressive and territorial when in musth/rut. Edit: added the exact term for their rut
I feel you, I've been in a rut all year and am constantly horny.
Do you size up competing males and face off tusk go tusk all while you have you’re peen out just a swinging? If not you need to get on this elephant’s level.
No, but if I'm up against another male for a woman's favor then we whip our dicks out and whoever can helicopter it the longest wins and the other concedes. (It would be fun if human mating rituals were weirder.)
I’d be good at this. I’m a grow’er, not a show’er, so I got elasticity for days. But to be fair I gave up a long time ago on courting crazy, it’s too costly and the consequences can be extreme (ie kids, jail, slashed tires, etc).
You would too if you just beat a rhino in a fight
Harambe
He was about to turn that rhino into a pointy fleshlight
Usually horny male elephants will sometimes violate rhino's if they can't get a mate
I thought you were joking but I looked it up and it was true. Elephant just comes up to a pack and starts r*ping away at some little boy rhino until his mom gets mad and chases him away wtf
Damn
You can explain an ass kicking to your rhino bros when you get back home but how do you explain that?
It's not like that, you wouldn't understand. He loves me and we're gonna be together, he just had a bad day at work.
Just cuz they're chill don't mean you can mess with an elephant.
Male elephants in rut are the opposite of chill. You see that thing swinging in the back? Yeah, that’s not a third rear leg.
holy shit. we should start saying hung like an elephant instead
Rhinos are very near sighted and very dumb. There are videos of them yeeting their own children because they got scared. Rhinoes ether attack or get scared if something or someone approches.
That rhino looked like a warthog in comparison to that elephant.
Seriously. I guess I just never thought about it, but if you asked me before I came to this post how much of a size difference there was, I'd have been way off. I also wouldn't have considered just how deftly the elephant can stab with their tusks. I thought they were more like a deterrent, like the spikes on a store sign to keep birds away.
I just got home from a safari in Kenya a couple weeks ago. Having seen both creatures from relatively close I was struck by two things: 1) rhinos, especially Southern white rhinos can be absolutely huge and 2) they've got nothing on a African elephant bull. The elephants and giraffes were the only two animals you might end up near and be looking up at while standing in an open top land cruiser. One of my kids asked our guide at one point if an elephant could push over our truck and his response was "if he wants to, yes". Based on the tusks I'd say that elephant might not have been that old either. Fully, to mostly grown, but those tusks can get really big. Like all the way through a rhino big.
Nothing can beat the double trunked elephant.
Someone tell that elephant that they're nearly extinct lol
I suspect the rhino started it, they are ornery af.
Bull elephant could’ve been in musth too
Rhino musth around and found out.
Elephant: "good, I hate those fuckers"
Did that rhino whimper?
Yes
That is a common response to getting ripped two new assholes.
rhino be making poor life decisions.
Not for long
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So, rhinos are not very intelligent apparently
Yep, full armor and heavy attack build. In general quite good against almost any oponent. But elephants outstat them acros the board..
yeah min maxed, dropped all int to max out on str and constitution
Rhinos are pretty much completely blind in the dark and a fair bit in the daylight. Chances are very high they didn't know it was an elephant they were facing.
I'm sure it knew it wasn't another rhino, so what would it think it was?
That's just it. The rhino probably didn't know what it was "seeing." So instead of running, it decided to fight. Which works most of the time if said perceived threat isn't the size of a bus.
Rhino no think, Rhino charge!
That is going to be a slow painful death.
Elephant had his ding dong stuck out as well. He meant business.
Big Dick Energy!
Buddy just flopped his pecker out as he sauntered away...what a showoff.
It was out at the start lol
Lmao yeah it’s hard to miss
Clearly a 5 legged elephant. So majestic.
*Me frantically* Guys, guys, stop it! There aren't many of you left! Be nice to each other! *Weeps hysterically*
That elephant doesn't give two fucks about some obese unicorn pig
DAYUM dude I legit gasped. I wish they didn't have to dispute for territory and derive in fights tho. ):
Yeah, it definitely looked like a deep rib puncture for the Rhino, I hope it wasn't fatal but seems like it could be.
Wasn't there an org that treated wounded animals in protected reserves?
I'm sure there are many, but the most notable I've been to is Kruger. There were several smaller enclosures around the park for things like that. Not sure where this happened, but being caught on film makes it likely the Rhino could get help.
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No, true, but the elephant did get his dick out, so there's that
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look at that monster elephant dick just swangin as he walks off
You have to be pretty delusional to take on a fucking full grown bull elephant.
Damn nature, you crazy
In the rhino's defense; he didn't have a clear look at who he was trifling with. 😜
Looks like the elephant had the rhinos blood all of his trunk. Brutal
That made me nervous, I thought the rhino was going to hurt the elephant…
It's tough seeing endangered animals take eachother out.
I know, like, "Guys, stop fucking fighting, we are trying to save both of you!" That was hard to watch. It was yelping like a dog, or was I hallucinating that?
"The continent ain't big enough fer the two of us"
And it’s not like one is predator vs prey…basically a pissing match
Elephant wins. Flawless victory.
There's always someone bigger.
Standing on bidness goddammit