How Nature Accidentally Created the Perfect Animal

Find more than 100 videos of wildlife encounters with giant mirrors
installed in the jungle in Gabon (Central Africa) filmed by Xavier HUBERT-
BRIERRE, his wife Anne-Marie and their friend Michel Guiss Djomou. After
viewing each of these videos, please read the attached description, in order to
learn more about the behavior of these wild animals in front of their reflection

Audio might be a little off at certain points, that's my bad, probably need a new mic
Also it's Thula Thula, not Shula or whatever I put up there

Music Used:
A Walk on the Moon- Lakey Inspired
Medieval- Runescape 3
Firefly in a Fairytale- Gareth Coker
Under Cover- Wayne Jones
Documentary Cinematic Music

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If you've read this far, what's your favorite animal?

[mndiaye_]

Well, I don't know how but you guys did it. 150k and counting. Looks like I'm gonna be seeing elephants real soon....

[OG_Dominic]

Crazy how elephants got so many weird looking relatives, them being pretty weird looking too; and yet they earned so many people's hearts, mine included

[frederickapodaca]

Elephants have got to be one of the most unique mammals in history

[BuddyRaw]

"Ill die on that hill, i just hope the elephants come visit it"..Well said my friend

[PimsriYotube]

I went to an elephant sanctuary here in Thailand once, and they got a newly rescued baby and mom. I was a little kid and stupid and my parents weren't supervising me, and I stand a little too close to their pen, and the baby used its trunk to yank my hair. The mommy elephant come running to stop her baby by gently kicking it, pushing it away. Thinking back on it, the elephant parent did better job at watching their kid than mine did at that moment lol.

[marycasanova]

Elephants are human smart. My brother worked for Barnum and Bailey's circus in the early 70's and he told me about a wrangler who was abusive to the elephants. One day he was putting them in their train car and two females blocked the exits and then another leaned on him until he was erased. My brother totally believed with all his heart that they planned it.

[JLAvey]

Stepped on his own trunk-- I never even considered that possible.

[smashers]

Fun fact: Up until the end of the Pleistocene there were members of the Elephant family on every continent except Australia and Antarctica, to the point where North America had 4 living on the same continent, The Wooly Mammoth, Colombian Mammoth, the American mastodon and Cuvieronius a species of Gompthothere. Yea they basically ruled the world before it changed too quickly for them to adapt.

[BhbtheRock]

"There's at least one shark that knows what an elephant is"

I'm way too stoned for this, great vid

[bgoldschmidt]

The Elephant family tree just sounds like a family reunion where you have to play the guessing game of "Am I actually related to you, or where you just yoinked into this family and now I call you uncle?"

[sirfailalotful]

Elephants running a sugar cane tax on literal trucks is one of the best animal facts I’ve heard in quite a while.

[franklinfernandes]

Elephant are truly the definition of "Strong enough to be kind"

[rhincodon_typus]

100/10 video. Learned a lotta new stuff.

Fun fact about elephants in the jungle. Their imprints create the tiniest of puddles, that when filled with water create safe havens for small fish to hatch and grow. They get to the next river by hopping from puddle to puddle. If that's not adorable, I don't know what is. 🐘

[lucasmendoza]

You forgot one thing, elephants understand MUSIC! There's a video of a pianist playing the piano for some elephants and they actually bob their heads to the rhythm.

[Laxhoop]

I think the biggest flex of elephant intelligence is the fact that they’re clearly able to understand that not every human is a threat, but some definitely are, and so they clearly use their intelligence to differentiate on a case by case basis.

[seanfisher]

"Elephants be spelunking"
Is a phrase I never thought I'd hear, but I'm so glad I did.

[nonesuchone]

“The world is just better off when elephants are doing well; I’ll gladly die on that hill. I just hope the elephants come to visit it.” Is such a noble and admirable statement. I believe you.

[heatherjones]

Visiting Kenya, one of the tour operators told of about 15 years earlier when she was alone on a small property suffering with malaria with her months old baby who would not stop crying. She went out and walked around and around the cabin trying to calm the baby and her own feverishness for what felt like 2 or 3 hours. She did not notice that night had fallen and it was pitch black. She thought she had better go inside. This was when she discovered she was completely surrounded by elephants who had probably been there for quite a while. She was freaked but was able to make her way back inside no problem. In my view, a family herd like that one, full of mothers, would have heard the crying baby and known exactly what the mother was doing and probably knew that she was sick. IMO they surrounded her, just like they do their own vulnerable members, to protect her from predators. Once she was back inside they melted back into the bush. When this video reaches 100k views, please go to the Ithumba elephant rewilding unit of the Sheldrick Trust in Tsavo. It will change your relationship not only to elephants but also to the planet. I was there for 3 days and wanted to stay forever. Say high to Yatta and to my lovely foster no-longer-a-baby, Lemoyian, for me.

[rosenrot]

Still cute when elephants sense a new baby so they're just jogging over excited to see it

[Magdalenasfears]

I'm from Detroit and i remember when our zoo sent our elephants to a sanctuary because they needed more space. The zoo tried to buy the golf course next to it, but they refused to sell. It was bitter sweet, because the original elephants helped build the zoo a hundred years ago, and as kids you'd follow the elephant foot prints to get to their enclosure, but the Detroit zoo has always been a put animals first place (some enclosures are so big you almost never see the animals), and everyone knew it was what was best for the elephants.