Chimp & See Talk

ELE CHALLENGES

  • NuriaM by NuriaM scientist, moderator

    Hi all,

    this is a thread for us all to participate by sharing ele. videos showing interesting behaviours/traits etc. and where everyone is allowed to give an opinion on that. Any sort of explanation is allowed, even if you think it´s crazy...at the end I will give an expain it and you will realize that you might know elephants more than you could imagine.

    so here´s the first one:

    Challenge #1 :

    in this thread @Felpa would like to know what this guy might be doing with the back leg here:

    ACP000djqk

    what do you guys think? 😃

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  • Batfan by Batfan

    Hmm, not sure. At first I thought it was preparing to pee but then I think its leg goes too far back for that. Could it be trying to keep an elephant behind it at a distance? You did say even crazy suggestions were acceptable!!!

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  • Boleyn by Boleyn moderator

    Yay, a challenge, great! 😃

    You want crazy, you get crazy: It looks like stretching to me, but maybe she is trying to fell a tree? They don't seem to be very thick and it could work that way I think.

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  • Snorticus by Snorticus in response to NuriaM's comment.

    The camera view has been knocked to a diagonal. Is this elephant brushing the ground to explore it with the feet kind of like the front elephant here?

    ACP000dk4e

    enter image description here

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  • PauDG by PauDG scientist, moderator

    Yoga, sunbird pose, much better than me :p

    The skin is awesome!

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  • AnLand by AnLand moderator in response to PauDG's comment.

    Good one! This made my day!

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  • Boleyn by Boleyn moderator in response to PauDG's comment.

    LOL @ Paula!

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  • Boleyn by Boleyn moderator

    Here's another little ele challenge. I hope Nuria won't mind 😃

    Simple question: what is it?

    enter image description here

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  • Felpa by Felpa

    Hi, Nuria, what a surprise!
    The first thing that came to mind was... that the elephant was very interested in showing something to someone.
    Maybe just to the camera. I've been watching other videos and it seems that elephants sometimes feel annoyed with the cameras, maybe because they emit something. Of course it moves slowly, it does not seem angry like in the video of Batfan ACP000drn0.
    Or maybe the elephant wanted to show his ass to a fellow. I would say that if so, it would be a challenging sign ... It does not seem like a sexual attraction behavior ... ¡¡ Or is it ??
    On the other hand, diving on the Internet, it seemed to me that elephants do not satisfy their physiological needs like dogs, that is, they do not raise their hind legs for it.
    About streching her leg as in yoga, well... now I see why elephants live so long, they keep away arthrossis....

    Nuria, I have not found the video of the same behavior from another perspective that you mention. But in this way I've reviewed lots of videos of hind legs and elephants asses 😃

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  • Batfan by Batfan in response to Boleyn's comment.

    View up an ele's trunk ???

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  • Boleyn by Boleyn moderator in response to Batfan's comment.

    Exactly @Batfan you earn the prize! ...uhm...a warm back-slapping 😄 😛

    Here's the video: ACP000di74

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  • MimiA by MimiA scientist, moderator

    awesome!

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  • puddock by puddock

    This is fun! Good spot @Batfan! For the first video I'd have said it was a lovely and very impressive yoga pose too!

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  • Batfan by Batfan

    Yay !! That was a lucky guess! Thank you for the metaphorical back-slap - I shall collect on it later 😛 Love the original video, it's not often you get such a personal view of an elephant .

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  • lauraklynn by lauraklynn moderator in response to NuriaM's comment.

    Providing counterbalance? Is the elephant bending or reaching for something with its trunk?

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  • NuriaM by NuriaM scientist, moderator

    Hey!!! sorry for the delay, here I go:

    challenge #1:

    @Batfan: the "distance theory" could make sense, but actually what I see is that this ele. is checking the camera with the foot. Elephants use their back legs to check interesting things (in this case it could be the camera), and also to kick (@Pugli can tell 😄 ). Like cows, they can kick sideways.

    @Boleyn, when eles. want to fell something they usually do it with their foreheads...

    @Snorticus :

    The camera view has been knocked to a diagonal. Is this elephant brushing the ground to explore it with the feet kind of like the front elephant here?

    exactly 😃

    Paula: LOL!!!!!!!!, sorry, no yoga here, but crazy answers are very much welcome!!

    So the solution is: checking something interesting with back leg...in this case the camera.

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  • NuriaM by NuriaM scientist, moderator

    Challenge #2 :

    @Boleyn , a view inside a trunk, awesome!!

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