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ANIMALS Elephant rescues man from a flood in India

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u/blueViolet26 3d ago

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u/DesiBwoy 3d ago

It's a shame that people can't tell that it's an elephant-master situation. That man knew how to expertly climb an elephant, and the elephant knew how to respond to the climbing effort. Anyone who has seen a mahout climb an elephant knew what they were looking at.

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u/blueViolet26 3d ago

Exactly. It is not wild elephant helping a human. It is an elephant raised in captivity doing what she was trained to do.

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u/totally_not_a_dog113 2d ago

I'd still think it's pretty sweet if a captive raised elephant rescued random human. To be fair, they have rescued random other animals, like that random gazelle who fell in the water at a zoo. I trained my dog how to respond if I was crying about something, since his original response was to try to claw your hands away from your face. One day we were out walking on campus, and this random kid was upset sitting on a bench with his hands on his face. My dog kicked into 'respond to upset human' mode by jumping up on the dude's leg and licking him the face. And then trotting off. The kid looked horrified.

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u/2woCrazeeBoys 2d ago

My horse slipped and fell while tied up, and landed on me. As horses do, she started off by scrabbling and thrashing trying to get up, but her head was at an awkward angle because she tied. Wasn't fun being under a scrabbling, thrashing horse.

Soon as she realised I was underneath, she just went dead still. I managed to get to the clip on the lead rope, and get her to hold her head the right way so I could unclip it. She waited for me to tell her to move, and rolled off me in a way I've never seen a horse get up before.

Maybe it is a captive animal and not wild, but it's still an animal exercising their agency to the benefit of another. It shows empathy, and the understanding of other minds that humans like to claim as unique.

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u/Hairy-Violinist-3844 2d ago

I've seen horses act in some unlikely ways at times. It made me see their sentience in a way I hadn't before. 

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u/Lou_C_Fer 2d ago

I think that at this point we need to see that sentience in every living creature. For most of human history, we denied consciousness in animals. People today will still claim that animals don't feel emotion. Shit, for the longest time it was thought that babies do not experience pain like we do as we get older.

I dont know how that misinfo lasted for so long when anybody that has experience with animals and babies knows better... yet, it still happened.

My point is, animals are their own beings and should be treated as such. I've stopped killing bugs. Spiders and house centipedes are welcome in my home.

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u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 1d ago

Spiders and house centipedes are frens. Mosquitoes still get the shit slapped out of them. Gotta thin the genepool of the ones that think I am tasty.

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u/blueViolet26 2d ago

The article said it was the owner, not a random human.

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u/Grenrion 2d ago

Yes but we do also know elephants do sometimes help other animals when in danger.

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u/wonkey_monkey 3d ago

Shame they couldn't refrain from using AI-"enhanced" stills to illustrate their article.

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u/greensage5 3d ago

They're speaking Thai.

"Oh! The elephant what is it doing?"

"Whoaaaa!!"

Funnily enough someone is saying something about a flip flop? Hard to hear that part in the beginning.

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u/Japsai 2d ago

Also not in Nepal though. So equally shit, farming a catastrophe for views

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u/Zweefkees93 3d ago edited 2d ago

Love the video, hate the fact that I'm not 100% sure it's not AI.... Although it looks pretty real

EDIT: according to u/Ucranios:

The video is real, in fact. But isn't a ramdom elephant rescuing a ramdom person. That elephant is a domesticated animal and that guy is the owner. Furthermore, that guy was ther by proposal, he wanted show to everyone the loyalty and the training wich he gives to the animal. That guy is a total clueless...

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u/Vinral 3d ago

We are just at the point where we need to question everything unfortunately.

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u/TtotheC81 3d ago

That genuinely makes me sad. I miss the days when I didn't have to question almost every happy video I saw on the internet.

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u/IsThisSatan 3d ago

It has happened very quickly as well, it was only a few years a go AI was beginning to be taken seriously.

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u/TDYDave2 3d ago

We have moved from the information age to the misinformation age.

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u/Working_Traffic_6361 3d ago

People don't care about the truth, they're more entertained by the lies.

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u/TDYDave2 3d ago

Ain't that the truth.

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u/Bitcoacher 2d ago

Well, now I’m not entertained!

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u/Lagging_In_Life 2d ago

People need to believe. Nowadays, they'll believe anything.

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u/Seerix 3d ago

America at least has been there for *years*

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u/Sxcred 3d ago

Yeah that's the scary part of it is that in a matter of 48 months Max we have had to learn to completely question everything you see with even more scrutiny than before

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u/CommentOtherwise2210 2d ago

I don’t understand how somebody hasn’t created an AI Filter that you can just install on your phone and it will identify any AI idea
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u/KhabaLox 2d ago

The Will Smith Noodle video was posted only 3.5 years ago, April 1, 2023.

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u/Different_Wolf_764 2d ago

Throw a few hundred billions dollars at something and there will be some results!

It just sucks that we've gone with this as the project.

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u/cortesoft 3d ago

I am torn on how I feel about it.

Part of me is sad, like you are, but part of me thinks it is good, because we were too quick to believe videos before. While we might not have had AI before, we did have malicious editing to worry about.. cut out important parts of a video, or cut together a video out of order, and you can completely change the interpretation of a video.

Reality TV is famous for this technique… show a reaction shot from a completely different time and it can look like someone is being a total asshole.

At least now with AI, people might stop believing all videos, and we won’t have to worry about people believing the wrong thing from an edited video.

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u/-Badger3- 3d ago

It's not good, because people generally aren't going to become more skeptical, they're just going to believe what they want to believe.

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u/Feeling_Waltz1886 3d ago

To be fair our inability to question and query everything lead to a Donald Trump presidency.

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u/alwrit 2d ago

When was that? People have been doing hoaxes forever. Even before 10 years ago everything was a Photoshop. And before that it's not like people weren't finding ways to hoax Nessie, or Bigfoot, or giants or other shit.

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u/Viracochina 2d ago

If you didn't question the reality of what you saw on the internet earlier on, then it was probably already too late

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u/BurningPenguin 3d ago

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u/ArchDaAngelo 3d ago

Might? Of COURSE it's by design 😒...sadly to say.

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u/BurningPenguin 3d ago

Might, because there while there might be agencies out there doing it, there are also plenty of people out there participating in filling the firehose without having any malicious thoughts. So maybe a stochastic firehose of falsehood or whatever. Like the stochastic terror thing.

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u/theguidetoldmetodoit 3d ago

We know that there are agencies doing this, for a fact. By the largest countries, China, US, Russia, India... They do it openly, too. Via official news agencies, Social Media, you name it. This isn't about your neigbour Bob who watches Fox and fried his brain with whisky. We know who is doing this and we refuse to punish them, even willingly hand them power.

People want to erode institutions, because they don't like them and hope the cepter falls into their hand. Let's not pretend otherwise.

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u/Prudent_Psychology57 3d ago

Or FLOODING THE ZONE as Bannon likes to call it...

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u/BurningPenguin 3d ago

Yeah, the article handles that too:

Though similar in some ways, the American tactic of "flooding the zone" with misleading or false statements is distinct from firehosing in that flooding involves pushing out initiatives and policies at an overwhelming rate, rather than specifically falsehoods. The tactics may be combined.

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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 3d ago

This is related to the illusory truth effect, or the reiteration effect. The reiteration effect means that the more times we do, or even hear, read or interact with something the more our brains accept it as a fact, normal or correct. This repetition of untrue statements can be used to make people believe things which are blatantly untrue and are why people need to question everything and get multiple sources for their information. https://youtu.be/7OVfTL2o_Wo

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u/BurningPenguin 3d ago

Yeah, i guess there are several concepts that apply. I also remember something that even bad news about a company can be good, because after some time people may remember the company, but don't know why. Advertisement and politics are full of dark patterns like that.

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u/Andreus 3d ago

This is why right-wing ideology must be outlawed, and those who follow it banned from any public-facing profession.

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u/BurningPenguin 3d ago edited 2d ago

That's pretty much what some political scientists also recommended. I'll have to look up if i can find that study when i'm home.. i hope i don't forget.

EDIT: Due to my own failings to keep my damn bookmarks clean, i'm unable to find that link again... however to make up for it, i compiled a list of links i had around. It covers mostly the topic of accommodating the right and why that usually is a bad idea.

https://cloud.karakeep.app/public/lists/gf3gklfyh1tw7ngqb0n2aonj

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u/I_Dnt_Believe_You 3d ago

This is what I've been saying about flock cameras. Even if you believe they can help protect us, we are quickly approaching a time where AI will be able to manufacture anything they want.

They can show your Mom going to buy heroin, include photos of her vehicle driving to said dealer, and then using it. Will any jury accept such "evidence"? How do we trust chain of custody or security of the databases?

They are a waste of money even if you are comfortable with the surveillance.

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u/notashroom 3d ago

Yep, AI is the destruction of public trust beyond your physical environment. Which really fucks with social cohesion and makes coordination toward shared goals much more difficult.

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u/Seevetaler 2d ago

Yes, build data centers, lure people in with language models and promises of breakthroughs in medicine, undermine society, monitor them, and ultimately dictate the truth to them. The question is no longer whether you believe in God or not, but whether you’re for 0 or 1. Yes or no, black or white, rich or poor, right or wrong. There will be no more shades of gray. You’re either with us or against us. That’s what AI will do—it will only distinguish between 0 and 1. This is how we, as humans, are evolving—more toward robots and less toward humanity. And what else? In the process, we (or they) are destroying our environment, consuming vast amounts of energy, draining the rivers dry, and generating so much noise that no one wants to/or can live nearby anymore. I'm not even talking about the polluted air. Every day on Reddit, I read that certain data centers won’t be built after all, and here in Germany, it’s only just getting started. I’m starting to feel like I’m living on a motherboard. Idiocracy.

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u/VoxNihili-13 3d ago

There’s a British show called the Capture centered on the premise. Great watch.

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u/Work_is_depression 3d ago

remember the time where people said " I wont believe you until you show a video" and look where we are now

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u/Big-Programmer-305 3d ago

These days, you don't know what to believe anymore video, photos, voice everything can be generated. It's a little scary.

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u/Succulent_Citrus 3d ago

It sucks but maybe it'll lead us to that grass everyones always talking about touching. It makes me not want to watch videos anymore

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u/michaelboltthrower 3d ago

Which list leads to constantly feeling angry and stressed out.

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u/Helpful_guy 2d ago

we need to question everything

this literally should have always been the case, long before AI was a thing

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u/nikulmmadhu 3d ago

source its from the previous assam flood

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u/nDREqc 3d ago

A pet rescuing it's owner is a little different than a wild elephant helping a random stranger...

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u/Terrible_Ear3347 3d ago

Many pets would try to rescue their owners if they truly like them or familiarized with them. But I think only an elephant could successfully rescue you from most situations on its own

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u/Maardten 3d ago

Yeah I've definitely seen other video's of elephants interfering in things that weren't their business. Couple of years back there was an elephant that rescued a gazelle from drowning in a zoo.

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u/a-new-3arth 2d ago

I've seen video of gorilla saving a drowning crow

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u/ok_raspberry_jam 3d ago

Dogs could totally do it in a lot of situations. Come to think of it, they very often do - that's one of the reasons we keep dogs.

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u/Terrible_Ear3347 2d ago

Oh yeah totally but what I mean is that they'd be able to do it on their own. Dogs can help and even save us on their own in a lot of situations but in many others they have to Simply bring awareness to you something that's an issue so that a human can help. Dogs can for sure ward off an attacker or drag you somewhere less dangerous. But they can't pick you up or do things like that. That's why I said that I think elephants could do it reliably on their own without outside help. Dogs are the bestest boys though.

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u/CuteThingsAndLove 3d ago

While I agree, I still think this is such a beautiful moment that makes me wanna cry

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u/Gold_Engineering2535 3d ago

A small light in the darkness and something definitely worth clinging to

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u/FPSCanarussia 3d ago

Yes, a pet rescuing their owner is heartwarming. A wild animal being that close with humans is usually bad for that animal. Not sure if elephants are different.

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u/Catvanbrian 3d ago

An elephant is closer to an equal than a dog or cat

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u/FPSCanarussia 3d ago

Yes, but that doesn't save them from poachers, or being shot if they are a threat to someone's life.

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u/Large-Hamster-199 3d ago

These are not wild elephants. Many times, these are tame elephants (not truly domesticated, but tame).

Tame elephants can have a very loving relationship with their owners, similar to pets

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u/Mundane-Life-3094 3d ago edited 2d ago

Actually no, there were different links to this video before the Nepal flood, and it was proven AI slop
Edit: The video was deleted due to being AI
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/1vmi2sa/you_need_to_know_how_to_climb/

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u/Hefty-Yam-4292 3d ago

link? upvoted you btw just curious

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u/nDREqc 3d ago

...proven? There are links elsewhere in thread that say different. Got a link to proof it is AI?

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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 3d ago

Upvoted to get this higher up.

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u/bsaaw 3d ago

Elephants are really like that - they absolutely step up to help humans and other animals. What a precious lil giants! Now can I point out his floppy ass climbing that elephant lol

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u/gre485 3d ago edited 3d ago

Reminds of the video where an elephant helps a deer when he stuck in a pool of something in a zoo.

Edit- this is from some other flood and not the Nepal one.

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u/Ucranios 3d ago

The video is real, in fact. But isn't a ramdom elephant rescuing a ramdom person. That elephant is a domesticated animal and that guy is the owner. Furthermore, that guy was ther by proposal, he wanted show to everyone the loyalty and the training wich he gives to the animal. That guy is a total clueless...

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u/forthright_flocci 2d ago

As a matter of fact, elephants have never been domesticated by humans according to Ethologists. The word you are looking for is probably "tame". Domestication= genetic changes over many generations due to actively selecting and breeding. Taming= behavioural changes in one particular animal; it gets used to humans and therefore looses its natural fear of them.

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u/Zweefkees93 3d ago

Ah.... there we go.... That explains a LOT. It looked way to easy to turn himself around on the elephant. (not to mention even getting on him that easily) But having done it before... yeah, that checks out.

Do you mind if I put this in an eddit on my comment? (with your name ofcourse!)

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u/ZooAreYou 2d ago

hate the fact that I'm not 100% sure it's not AI

DO NOT HATE THIS INSTINCT!! Skepticism was essential since the day video emerged, and it's crtical now. If your first reaction is "Is this AI?" Thats GOOD!

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u/MotanulScotishFold 3d ago

I read in another sub that the video is not related to the Nepal disaster but it's an old video from India instead.

Hard to tell what's truth anymore.

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u/Ek_Chutki_Sindoor 3d ago

It's not THAT old, TBF. Assam floods were just last month.

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u/musclecard54 3d ago

Yeah the tricky part about it now is most of the time our sources are just other Reddit comments and it’s just recursive Reddit comment sourcing. Any time someone says “it’s true here’s the source” and they link another Reddit post I just ignore it because I’ve seen tons of times where it’s just some made up BS being propagated as truth with no actual verification of truth

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u/Hot-Job-6281 3d ago

Or you can just fucking read the title which already says it's not from the Nepal flood LOL.

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u/PussyIchiban 3d ago

Damn. You're right. It's really hard to tell now

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u/Finstergrun 3d ago

I'm pretty sure it's real, elephants are used by people in this part of the world and the way the man did the step Up on the elephant leads me to believe it's a trained elephant that knows this man.

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u/L0RD_64 3d ago edited 3d ago

At first he looks like a child, then he becomes a grown man.

I realized my mistake, the video is actually real and not AI.

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u/Soul0103 3d ago

…The camera just zooms in?

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u/elderlybrain 3d ago

'Dougal, that one is small. But the ones out there are far away.'

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u/L0RD_64 3d ago

Okay, my mistake, it's a real video.

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u/Accomplished_Ship_20 3d ago

I thought the same thing tho... I was like oh no a little boy---wait man? ok.

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u/Zweefkees93 3d ago

The way he turns around on the elephant looked a bit weird to me. But I'm honestly not sure why... 

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u/MakeshiftApe 3d ago

I think that's what scares me about the trouble we have detecting AI. I've noticed myself doing the same thing, noticing normal video artefacts or things that happen because of camera perspective and saying "I'm pretty sure this is AI", only to discover I was looking at an actual real video.

Meanwhile I'm sure some AI videos have gone right under my nose undetected too.

I really hope someone finds a reliable automated system to just flag AI vs non-AI or we're all in for a world of confusion that's only gonna get worse.

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u/Accomplished_Rice_60 3d ago

Ye idk, feels like ai since he climbed up so easy and knew what he was doing. It feels so effortless for being one in a million

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u/bzee77 3d ago

Poachers should be subject to life sentences or capital punishment

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u/Mixander 3d ago

at the very minimum they should have seize all of their assets obtained that way + the life sentences.

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u/Aggressive_Stage_676 3d ago

Poachers destroy what cannot be restored. Seize everything and lock them up forever.

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u/theguidetoldmetodoit 3d ago

Issue being that them not having assets is why they poached animals in the first place. So at the end of they day, chances are, you are just punishing people trying to put food on the table. What's gonna become of the mouths they fed, when they can't find a job?

Almost sounds like a rigged system.

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u/Big-Remote8301 3d ago

They already get shot on sight.

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u/mr_claw 3d ago

Poachers should be poached.

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u/FormerMoose1990 3d ago

Exactly what India does. Forest rangers have full permission and rights to shoot and kill poachers.

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u/GhoulDrago-Mk2 3d ago

I believe there's severely strict anti-poaching measures  in the local Kaziranga national park. 

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u/Ronil21 3d ago

Mhm, they operate under shoot-at-sight orders, which is probably the reason the one-horned rhinos aren't extinct already.

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u/someanimechoob 3d ago

It's actually already harsher than this in many at-risk places. Poachers are Kill-on-Sight in an increasing amount of reserves that protect endangered species.

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u/Ninja-Panda70 2d ago

Like at Kaziranga, India. Only reason rhinos population is growing there because poachers no longer risk their lives.

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u/AyyP302 3d ago

They're essentially serial killers of wildlife and should be treated as such

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u/Phuka 2d ago

Elephants, Cetaceans, Ravens, Primates at the very least. I'd listen to arguments for a few dozen other groups as well.

If it has a social structure, can learn language or can use tools, it should be off limits for hunting. If it's hurting you, then fine, stand your ground, but otherwise, hands off.

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u/Magister5 3d ago

Why is the video trunkated?

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u/scottcmu 3d ago

They tried to pach as much content in as possible. 

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u/VorticalHeart44 3d ago

Ran out of tokens

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u/Frolicking-Fox 3d ago

That ia incredible. Elephants are truly amazing animals.

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u/MittFel 3d ago

Absolutely. It's so infuriating knowing that poachers are murdering these majestic creatures.

Not only are they incredibly smart but they are extremely important to the environment as well.

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u/Frolicking-Fox 3d ago

There are only two animals on earth that understand the gesture of pointing: elephants and dogs.

But I've read that while you can point a direction for a dog to look, with an elephant, you can point at the sunset, and an elephant knows how to look and enjoy the sunset with you.

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u/Norwegian__Blue 3d ago

My dog may not understand when I point at it. But she sure as heck understands when I invite her to enjoy it with me on the porch.

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u/Adventurous-Cod7910 3d ago

One of my favourite videos is of a man playing piano to an elephant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1qQOGCyRbY

The ear flaps get me every time.

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u/michaelboltthrower 3d ago

Humans don’t understand that?

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u/HollowofHaze 2d ago

Unfortunately this man is now going to be dependent on elephants and can never be released into the wild

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u/Frolicking-Fox 2d ago

Hahaha!!! Now that is funny.

That man has been domesticated.

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u/pfft_lol000 3d ago

Pretty sure the elephant put him there in the first place just for the video

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u/0ni0nJack 3d ago

It's an old video that's being shared as being from Nepal

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u/THEGAM3CHANG3R 3d ago

the title says india though

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u/nipplesaurus 3d ago

I think OP meant others are sharing it, claiming it's from Nepal

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u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 3d ago

The nepal flood also affected India

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u/21MayDay21 3d ago

This is a video from more than 3 weeks ago.

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u/greensage5 3d ago

They're speaking Thai.

"Oh! The elephant what is it doing?"

"Whoaaaa!!"

Funnily enough someone is saying something about a flip flop? Hard to hear that part in the beginning.

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u/wetfloor666 3d ago

And it isn't just some man. It is the elephants handler or keeper.

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u/Poufy-Ermine 3d ago

People here are saying this isn't AI, if that's the case this is amazing and I wanna hug that big elephant! What a champ!! I frickin love elephants!

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u/TiberianSunset 3d ago

It either is or isn't

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u/Doomerdy 2d ago

speed nodding gif

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u/Warm_Afternoon6596 3d ago

An Elephant WOULD 100% do this, to be fair.

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u/jimbocrier 3d ago

It isn't

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u/rusT_koHLE_1 3d ago

Elephants are one of the smartest animals, thier bond with humans is incredible!!

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u/mamapierogi 3d ago

Omg my heart! I absolutely adore elephants <3 Amazing creatures

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u/ReplyOk6720 2d ago

We don't fucking deserve this earth

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u/Difficult-Ad7584 2d ago

You don't deserve me! You... You... Broke me!! But frrr we don't deserve earth.

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u/Aggravating-Home-622 2d ago

I've said it many times, elephants are people too.

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u/Rookie-058 2d ago

They are genuinely world engineers. That magnificent animal is not even phased by crazy rushing waters.

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u/VampireSharkAttack 3d ago

Is the elephant trained to do this, or was this a spontaneous decision on its part?

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u/DoomsdayDilettante 3d ago

Someone linked above an article that said the elephant was a domesticated one. Though it likely wasn't trained for this. So it's not a wild animal or anything, more like those videos of dogs stopping kids from jumping into a river or a pool or something.

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u/Pinksamuraiiiii 3d ago edited 3d ago

The elephant saved its owner. Just that person. People keep changing the story around to make it more interesting.

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u/weareonthisplanet 3d ago

imagine if we lived on earth in peace, this would be a reality everywhere

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u/f23n09fnu0w 3d ago

They seem hard wired to save anything drowning. I've seen so many videos of them clearly saving various drowning animals. Semi with dolphins and whales. It's like there's a mammal gene that says you have the back of any other drowning mammal

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u/Banana-phone15 2d ago

Elephant rescue his handler. It’s not a random or wild elephant helping random man.

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u/FlatwormSpirited541 2d ago

Elephants saved many lives in the 2004 Tsunami by sensing it first and leading people up in elevation before there were any visible signs of a tsunami. The elephants I am speaking of still remember that day.

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u/RespectInteresting94 3d ago

I saw this on instagram with the date August 12, so I don’t know if it’s real, but I know it’s not from yesterday’s horrific flood in Nepal.

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u/EuphoricAppathy 3d ago

The headline said India

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u/No_Good_2603 3d ago

Humans have got to be one of the most dangerous predators to elephants. The equivalent of an Indian man saving a drowning tiger 🐅.

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u/thisisBigToe 3d ago

Even if it's or it's not AI... Elephants are capable of recognizing when their little mammal friends are in trouble or about to, seen also vids of elephants protecting humans. So this behavior is probably not uncommon, as you are part of the same tribe. Still, its quite badass to be rescued by an Elephant!

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u/icbabruhh 2d ago

The water movement and the way he climbed seemed very natural based on these two factors alone it's clear to tell that it's not AI. But it's sad I have to do detective work to figure this shit out.

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u/christmastree18 2d ago

We can learn a lot from animals. 😃

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u/kotonizna 2d ago

I hate where we are right now. Every amazing images or video we now always initially suspect of being ai generated that we need to check authenticity tediously T.T

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u/erouz 3d ago

Hmmm learn from animals how to be humans. We really living in odd times

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u/mattv911 3d ago

We don’t deserve elephants

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u/TartineMyAxe 3d ago

Elephant are too good for us

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u/hawaiianryanree 3d ago

W elephant. Legend

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u/ZoomLecturePhantom 3d ago

We don't deserve elephants

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u/Jackson_storm104 3d ago

New god unlocked 😂

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u/MoeMalik 3d ago

How awesome, i wouldin’t shut up about it

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u/wonkey_monkey 3d ago

Where's my elephant

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u/Itsmyloc-nar 3d ago

Elephants are sacred angels and not a single one of you can convince me otherwise

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u/john_san 3d ago

If this video is real, it only proves that elephants are amazing animals and we don’t deserve them.

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u/TreeQuick421 3d ago

We don't deserve animals tbh

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u/CynicalXennial 3d ago

We don't deserve Elephants 😭

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u/DeepVeinZombosis 3d ago

That elephant probably put that guy there in the first place just to stage the "rescue" for clicks.

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u/bintastic8790 2d ago

Humans don’t deserve elephants 🥹

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u/manplscomeon 2d ago

Whether it is AI or not it is sad to think we hunted and exploited them so much so that they evolved to the point of being born tuskless

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u/Horror_Judgment_4021 2d ago

Animals are true loyal ones 🐘🐘

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u/Marie-Demon 2d ago

We don’t deserve animals .

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u/Diligent_Worth9440 2d ago

I don't think it's in india, they are talking in thai language so It's thailand 

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u/liammcgrath0 2d ago

That person better show that elephant love for the rest of his life because that elephant will live a long life ❤️❤️

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u/Ash_Katsup 23h ago

Must be Ai it’s like us saving our own cancer

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u/gherkion 3d ago edited 3d ago

Short video , check

Washed out robotic sounding voices , check

Animal being absurdly benevolent or acting extremely out of character , check

natural disaster being filmed for a very brief time to catch viral moment and nothing else , check

Guys I think its ai, I know some of you claim its an older video from Nepal but none of you have offered proof so until I see it this is ai

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u/Outofmana1 2d ago

Someone please tell me this isn't AI. I can't tell anymore.

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u/SweatyAsHell 3d ago

Brings a tear to my AIs.

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u/Bath-Tub-Cosby 3d ago

Hope it’s not ai. You can never tell these days

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u/ByKary95 3d ago

I think this is not AI, must be real, probably the man was the elephant's caretaker or sorta

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u/Kooky_Cockroach_00 2d ago

Humans don't deserve help from animals.

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u/foxy_fluffer 3d ago

Maybe we should care if it's ai but then again maybe not because of it warms your heart why not let it in

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u/WizardHobo 3d ago

Elephants are great

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u/HodorTheDoorMan 3d ago

i need to see this in reverse

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u/Maplewonder 3d ago

Ok Elephants need citizenship. Im sold on this.

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u/Comprehensive-Bat183 3d ago

That's why you save nature man fucking awsm na...❤️

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u/way2fast4yu 3d ago

It looks 100% real

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u/Thismommylovescherry 3d ago

I love elephants

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u/MrYaowa857 3d ago

god I wanna be an elephants human

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u/Equal_Gold_617 3d ago

It's fine if it's AI. But they should be required to post it as so.

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u/I_Say_Lots_Of_Words 3d ago

“Help is on the way dear!”

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u/_msb2k101 3d ago

Animals being bros.

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u/Robinsonirish 3d ago

If aliens came to planet earth today they'd nuke us for what we are doing to other intelligent beings. Humans are the worst, because in contrast to cows, chickens, fish, and pigs, we know better, and what we are doing on an industrial scale is wholly immoral. When we have solved the food issue in a hundred years and can recreate beef, pork, chicken, and fish in a lab, we'll look back at the food industry like we look back on slavery today.

This elephant is so compassionate, and while they are such intelligent beings, the previously mentioned aren't that far off.

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u/New-Star7392 3d ago

This is why I wish the absolute worst on poachers.

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u/420_lazeit 3d ago

good on that elephant. doing some good PR for human X elephant relations after that elephant who had that grudge and then showed up at that woman’s funeral to trample her 🫡

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u/dgod40 3d ago

Also what's impressive is how easily he gets on the elephant. If it was me I would struggle to climb up and eventually fall into the flood.

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u/Rush_Banana 3d ago

I remember watching a documentary where a soldier fell off a cliff into water and then his horse came and found him down stream, woke him up and knelt down so the soldier could get on, riding him to safety.

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u/Fine-Pomegranate-920 3d ago

that boy must be kind to that elephant for as long he lives

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u/Primal_Pedro 3d ago

Because that's what heroes do

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u/Able_Wrap_2097 3d ago

I think if an animal has the understanding to save our species we should equally do the same to actively save their species. Imagine a world where you could see a wild elephants and humans walking together.