yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Shocking Footage of Baby Elephant Tossed Around by Adult, Explained | National Geographic


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

Suddenly, a young male comes into view, pushing a baby elephant. "Oh my God, that's a boom!" No, no, he picks it up.

Oh, meanwhile, a female, if the baby's mother, I believe, comes in and tries to rescue the calf and runs in front of him. He runs after her with an erection. He's chasing after the infant's mother and backs up toward the infant, who was looking for its mother, and goes back and grabs the infant again, pushing it. He still has an erection and puts his, what we call, reach over. He rests his trunk across the infant's back, which is what's done also when a male mounts a female. Where we were, he moved before.

Meanwhile, there's commotion, anathema, where the left one tusk is trying to rescue the baby. The male picks up the calf and drops it again. A young female, a tuskless female, is also there, but then the mother runs past him, and the male chases after her.

In observations that I've made around the birth of a baby elephant or around newborns, young males seem to get very excited by the smell of a new mother. I've always found it quite fascinating because when a baby is born, the whole family will rumble and trumpet and create an incredible commotion, and that commotion attracts a lot of males who come in to see, you know, what may be happening in the family.

Maybe the sounds are similar to when a female is mated, and they come in. What I've seen is that the young males get very confused by the smell of the mother, and they get excited, they get erections, they try and mount the female. The male in question is in his 20s, and this is the age group that still is not able to discriminate, it seems, between the smells of a new mother and of a receptive female.

The strange as it seems, [Music] you.

More Articles

View All
Mean (expected value) of a discrete random variable | AP Statistics | Khan Academy
[Instructor] So, I’m defining the random variable x as the number of workouts that I will do in a given week. Now right over here, this table describes the probability distribution for x. And as you can see, x can take on only a finite number of values: z…
Chi-square statistic for hypothesis testing | AP Statistics | Khan Academy
Let’s say there’s some type of standardized exam where every question on the test has four choices: choice A, choice B, choice C, and choice D. The test makers assure folks that over many years, there’s an equal probability that the correct answer for any…
Graphing arithmetic sequences | Algebra I (TX TEKS) | Khan Academy
We are told that F of n is equal to F of n minus 1 plus 6. So, the value of this function for each term n is defined in terms of the value of the function for previous terms. We’re essentially adding six to the previous term for each whole number n, where…
Why I Own Over $4,000,000 In Real Estate
What’s up you guys? It’s Graham here. So, I think it’s no surprise that throughout the last 11 years I’ve made my entire focus centered around real estate. I would save up as much money as I possibly could. I would not buy Starbucks with it, and then once…
Can the US avoid the End of an Empire?
Is there a political solution in the US to avoid the end of Empire, or is it a function of physics? I think this is a big part of, like, Sax’s point of view that there’s a solution; we need to change these people. Or are there too many, call it, conflatin…
Checks on the judicial branch | US government and civics | Khan Academy
In other videos, we have talked about how the other branches of government can limit Supreme Court powers. We’re going to continue that conversation in this video by discussing how the amendment process can also limit or overrule a Supreme Court decision.…