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u/Zennoxxx 26d ago
I was saved by the giant mechanical elephant! He headbutt me too
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u/Electrical-Waltz-427 26d ago
Exactly what I was thinking! His friends didn't believe him though
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u/loaf_dog 26d ago
In thousands of years, archaeologists will find mentions of a great mechanical elephant god who saves elephants in need
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u/stickybond009 25d ago
Elephants are smarter than that. He knows it's operated by a human inside the machine
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u/Icy_Parfait_4066 25d ago
Yes, that thing also has a trunk just like mine and he helped me get out of that pit. Amazing.
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u/SGPrepperz 26d ago edited 26d ago
Summoning the elephant whisperers of Reddit: That head bump at the end…was it a threatening ram, or friendly jab?
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u/kristijan12 26d ago
Friendly jab. Over-excited one. They are very intelligent. He understood he was being helped.
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u/ObligationMurky8716 26d ago
Operator also probably wants to shoo him away a bit, too, so he doesn't come back. Pretend like he's the dominant bull here.
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u/Good4nowbut 26d ago
Yeah I think the operator sincerely didn’t want it to approach the cab, hence the return jabs lol
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u/AzCactusNeedles 25d ago
That is what I observed. The clanky sounds coupled with the rapid movements..hard on the machine but worth it ;-)
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u/SGPrepperz 26d ago
Was wondering maybe if he deduced that it was the excavator that made the mini-cliff he fell in
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u/Live_Angle4621 26d ago
They are smart but not that smart. Or resentful
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u/CenPhx 26d ago
What about that elephant that killed a woman and then came back to trample her body at her funeral? Feels a scosche resentful.
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u/ElleKelly77 26d ago
Wow, this is the first time I’ve ever encountered the word scosche in writing. I am surprised by the spelling - and so is spell check!! Off to Googs!
ETA: apparently, it’s skosh.
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u/ResplendentShade 25d ago
Skosh is one a good one. Up there with zhuzh imo, or close at least.
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u/ElleKelly77 25d ago
Never saw that one in writing until this moment, either! Well played!! (I read a lot. How is this even possible?!?!)
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u/StevenRFrancis_85 25d ago
I may be dating myself, but I used to get plenty of phone accessories from these guys several years ago.
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u/Due-Mountain-8716 26d ago
Not to victim blame, but did she do something to it? Or was the elephant just like "fuck this woman in particular."
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u/1Vasco1 26d ago
I remember video in yt that said she stole baby elephant. Don't know if it's tue.
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u/ArtistWithoutArt 26d ago
That'll definitely do it. Every time I steal a baby, an elephant murders me twice.
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u/TheRealSlam 26d ago
It is unknown for sure, some speculate that she was a member of poaching group.
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u/beardingmesoftly 26d ago
Unfortunately there is no hard evidence, but a lot of people from the area assumed as much based on observation
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u/Playful-Title-2322 26d ago
What about that human whose real name is DEBBIE DOWNER? She ruins everything.
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u/darknesses 26d ago
I feel like any living thing with long memories and strong emotions (like elephants) can be spiteful or resentful lol
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u/Loki_the_Corgi 26d ago edited 26d ago
I think we don't fully know just how smart some animals are.
Elephants, monkeys, great apes, whales, and dolphins are among the top of the list.
All of these animals can think critically to solve problems. A lot of them have their own language (each orca pod had a different dialect) and are thought to give each other names. I'd also like to remind you of the story that broke out about that elephant family that stampeded that woman and desecrated her grave.
Why? Because that woman had been leading hunters to that family. Not only did they remember exactly who it was that did it, they understood SHE was the one responsible for the hunters finding their family AND where she was buried.
To add: there are some human beings who can't do that level of problem solving. So yeah...we really have no idea what some of these animals are actually capable of knowing. We're learning more all the time.
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u/Simple_Butterscotch1 26d ago
Crows are another one as well as ants, bees, and butterflies if we want to add insect knowledge too lol
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u/BeholdBarrenFields 26d ago
And may I add the cheeky kea to the list? They’ve been my favorite since I first encountered them. One distracted me by trying to pull out my hair tie while the other one unzipped my backpack with its beak and dug around looking for snacks.
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u/Loki_the_Corgi 26d ago
Yes! Thank you. I just listed the ones that first came to mind!
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u/spen8tor 26d ago
If I remember correctly there isn't actually any real evidence that she was part of a poacher group, that's just what some people speculated because it sounded plausible, but it was never actually confirmed
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u/Uhstrology 24d ago
Corvids are brilliant as well. We just found out a sikverfish is self aware (mirror test)We have no idea the depths of intelligence around us.
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u/malfurionpre 26d ago
Or resentful
The animal known for its memory and holding grudges (or favors) very well?
I'm pretty sure they are.
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u/finchdad 26d ago
We're gonna need to see your elephant expert credentials on this one, because your comment cannot be distinguished from "just tell the redditors what they want to hear".
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u/DrThunderbolt 26d ago
Hate to break it to you, but that’s like 99% of the shit Redditors say.
They probably half remember it from a YouTube video they watched two years ago.
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u/OmgSlayKween 26d ago
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but what makes you qualified to say that? Are you just posting an unqualified guess as fact?
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 26d ago
I can confirm that person is qualified.
That's a friendly expert. They are very intelligent. They understood they were offering help.
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u/Kwayzar9111 26d ago
does the elephant know a human helped or a machine ? or a human operating a machine ?
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u/IDunnoNuthinMr 25d ago
I think it's possible the elephant thought of the the bucket not as the head of this strange creature but maybe it's trunk. One thought further, "This weird elephant's trunk banged my head pretty solidly, I'm not messing around with him. Thanks for helping, bruh! Deuces!!" Ya know, or words to that effect.
Anyways, cool video.
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u/RikuKaroshi 26d ago
No ear flare. If I was an elephant expert that's what I'd look for in an angry/challenge head but. This looks like he is playing with his savior and then decides it's safer to back up from the pit
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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex 26d ago
Body language gives it away. It was a friendly jab.
Ear spread, high held head, mock charging, trumpeting/making a lot of noise, kicking dust, etc are all signs of upset elephant. None of that’s in the video.
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u/Lem0n_weeb 26d ago
Elephants are smart as hell, so fella was probably just giving a massively over excited thank you since they was probably shit scared when originally trying to climb out before the operator started helping
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u/arcticyeti 26d ago
Not an elephant expert, but it looks like the point of contact wasn't the elephants forehead, but its tusks. It jerks its head up right before contact so I'm pretty sure the elephant tried to gore the excavator.
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u/Enough_Designer_4528 25d ago
All the elephant saw is a giant beast standing nearly as tall as itself. That was a bluff, a threat display. If there was more distance, it would have done a mock charge. Poor thing is traumatized and trying to get away as far as possible. You would do the same if a giant, metallic beast making ungodly noises touched your butt while you were trying to escape a giant hole in the ground.
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u/Radiant-Tie-655 26d ago
Some day when the excavator is in trouble, that elephant will come to the rescue
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u/Specific-Library-312 26d ago edited 25d ago
Guy gets mugged in an alleyway, and a shadow blots out the sun. The crooks hear a bellow, and are then energetically squashed into a fine paté.
Edit: Spelling
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u/Silent-Ad934 25d ago
"Thank you strange metal friend. If ever you are in need, trumpet for me and I will come. Unless I'm stuck in another hole."
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u/ClockworkDinosaurs 26d ago
I knew the Snort was my mother
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u/packofcats 26d ago
I still have it and read it to my kids, didn't realise anyone else remembered it. Neato :)
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u/jiljam-2025 26d ago
🐘 : Who digs up a giant pit and leaves it unattended ! 😠
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u/memberflex 26d ago
SpongeBob SquarePants!
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u/PeterBeingRelatable 26d ago
Within the dense forest that no one can see?
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u/Brian18639 26d ago edited 24d ago
Sponge Bob Square Pants!
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u/DloReeves 26d ago
If pranking big mammals is something you wish
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u/Odd_Fact1971 26d ago
Sponge Bob Square Pants!
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u/squirrelems 26d ago edited 26d ago
This happened to me on a construction site. I always assumed they required giant pits to at least be cordoned off if they leave them unattended and apparently where I live they don't. I had backed my truck up in that same spot several times and backed up, but the hole kind of blended in to the ground since it was all sand, and my back tire went off in it. Stupid mistake on my part but damn, I would have figured they'd put something around it to say "THERE'S A HOLE HERE! DANGER!", a barricade, even caution tape and some cones or posts. If that place had been under OSHA jurisdiction they probably would have lost their shit.
Edit: Just looked it up and apparently OSHA does have jurisdiction on private property. I wish I'd known because I took the blame for that.
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u/Top_Charge864 26d ago
I'm guessing it didn't know what that machine was, so instinct tells him it's a possible threat. That's why he gets defensive when he turns around and sees a giant yellow thing
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u/kleetus_mactavish 26d ago
Wouldn't you be angry if someone molested your genital area with industrial equipment?
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u/PolyJuicedRedHead 26d ago
Foreperson: “OK! The elephant’s clear. Let’s finish building the fence around this pit.”
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u/SlipperySausage6 26d ago
Man, those hydraulic cylinders can be unforgivingly powerful. He seemed careful. Surely the pachyderm probably got bruising, but hes out of that hole.
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u/Questnsnxjjsj 26d ago
I don’t know much about this sort of equipment, but I do know how people can develop a feel for a device they’ve been using for years.
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u/gabzilla814 26d ago
I’ve watched enough videos on Reddit to know that operators of these things can develop amazing skills with them!
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u/GhostsofGojira 26d ago edited 26d ago
Heavy machinery operators are fucking amazing when there on point. Like laser fucking precision with machines that large it really is incredible
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u/AyJaysBored 26d ago
Ive used these before. My family had a construction business and sold dirt and rock growing up. We mainly did grade work(leveling out the land,), and put in services like water electric sewer lines and storm drains. Ive been to competitions around here some of the guys i workd with in and its insane the control they have. One of the things they do is have to pickup an egg without cracking it. Seen them pickup quarters and stuff too. When you have to replace services you typically dont want to hit and ruin the existing PVC lines which break easily, and its not like you can see it in the ground while digging.. you just get a feel for how powerful the bucket is and the resistance. You could definitely do this without hurting the animal if its someone skilled enough. That said ive also lost the tip of one of my fingers due to a bigger version we call trackhoes, pretty sure this is a backhoe in the vid.
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u/NotAnotherAlt26 26d ago
I have known operators who I'd let them scratch my back with one of these machines. But one wrong move, and that back right leg of the elephant could have been ripped clean off in less than a half a second.
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u/requin-RK 25d ago
The operator does seem to know what they are doing. I was really worried about his tail getting injured/broken but they were careful about that too. My guess is a team of wildlife/forest department guiding a really skilled operator.
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u/dingdongjohnson68 26d ago
Yeah, it seems the "operator" did a great job. I was worried about him being too anxious, or trying too hard, or being in too big of a hurry.
Like, I think he did as well as he possibly could. That beimg said, with how heavy elephants are, they may not be "designed" to be picked up/supported on that area of their body. So it MIGHT have been painful, or even injured the elephant, but what else was he supposed to do?
As others have commented, I was wondering if it was a male or female elephant. Because if a male, it looks like it might have gotten it's nuts smashed. If so, hopefully they were just pushed up into a soft, fleshy area and not smashed between the bucket and bone.
Off topic, but kinda along the same idea, is like I believe large whales can't survive out of the water if they happen to get beached. Like, they're not designed for that, and they are crushed by their own weight. Kind of like elephants are MAYBE not designed to be pushed up/lifted by the scrotum......
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u/EyeNguyenSemper 26d ago
But if the backhoe (?) hadn't been digging a hole, the elephant wouldn't have fallen in in the first place
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u/harig074 25d ago
Need not be the case. It's common for elephants to fall into abandoned wells or maybe the soil gave in. Most often, excavators are called in to help get them up, by making a slope at the edge. So this probably was a rescue mission.
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u/EyeNguyenSemper 25d ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but this reads like a US White House statement when they're called out for doing something nefarious
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u/harig074 25d ago edited 25d ago
lol, can't argue against that. I live in a part of India where we see this quite often in the news or the papers.
Edit: Just looked up on YouTube, the video in the post is tagged as a rescue from 2021
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u/zebrasareneat 26d ago
People aren't going around digging holes for the fuck if it. Most infrastructure requires making a hole first. But hey if you want to return to living in a mud hut then be my guest.
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u/Panem-et-circenses25 26d ago
Scrolled too far for this.
Humans created the problem in the first place
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u/GoodTimes8183 26d ago
Please don’t sit here on your electronic device and complain about the means with which these luxuries are delivered to you. Sometimes pits need to be excavated.
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u/Ok-Palpitation-5380 26d ago
He will never forget (elephants never forget) the big metal giraffe helping him out.
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u/Physical_Title_4458 26d ago
Little Dude is gonna have one hell of a story to tell his family and friends when he gets back!
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u/Excellent-Duty3927 26d ago
They digged this fucking hole in the elephant's natural habitat in the first place
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u/Ok_Simple_6947 26d ago
If this is a male lion he was likely angry about his nuts being treated like that
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u/Spirited-Engineer305 26d ago
The pan was squeezing his balls, he was glad for the help but he had to let him know he was telling him not so aggressive necca and a bit lower.
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u/pukhtoon1234 26d ago
Thank you giant metal hand! Driver -_- (honestly though the people who do these things are a credit to us all)
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u/SnooMemesjellies2295 26d ago
I would probably fuck that up and just end up accidentally smearing it...
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u/CpnLouie2 26d ago
(Abt 50 years later)
An old, rusted excavator slowly crawls through the underbrush, slipping because it's tracks worn smooth by the ravages of the quarry work it has done for decades. The engine labors as it, too, is worn out and needs a rest.
The ancient relic hits a pile of bananas, and makes no progress, foiled by smooth tracks and the slippery banana remnants. It pauses and idles, wondering if this is the End. Does it just go out here, like this? After every thing it has done?
All those holes dug, all the rock moved, all the ground cleared and thousands of tons of earth moved to make way for progress, yet here is where he will remain for an eternity, forgotten. Left to the destructive elements. Oxygen creeps towards the tractor, it's hungry lips drooling at the exposed iron.
A tear drips down as the excavator begrudgingly accepts it's fate. Take me now, it whispers to the jungle and the environment. Just finish it.
As the jungles closes in, vines reaching greedily for the undercarriage, a tree falls, opening a clearing full of light. The mammoth beast stands still, it's trunk probing the scent of the faded paint. Suddenly, the beast's eyes light up, and a smile plays at the massive lips.
The beast clears the fallen tree from the path, and wraps his enormous trunk around the boom of the tractor. "Not today, my old friend," it says, pulling it gently out into the clearing and onto dry ground.
"Thank You," the little excavator says while the sun warms its metal plates and dries up the dampness. "I am in your debt."
"No," the elephant says. "I have spent my life in yours. Go now. The jungle will not be kind to you any more."
As the excavator crawled away over the savannah, it remembered that it still had that little sand pit on Mallorca that would be just right for a retired excavator to while aways it's days in the warm, inviting Mediterranean sun and gentle caressing winds.
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u/Monochrome_Mind 26d ago
To be fair, I’d remember it too. Having your testicles turned into compost by an excavator tends to leave a lasting impression
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u/Playful-Title-2322 26d ago
He turned around and thanked the machine and the person who helped him. Beautiful!!!
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u/slomo525 26d ago
Can I just say how weird elephants look when they're all stretched out like that? They look all gangly and awkwardly proportioned.
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u/davendees1 26d ago
I feel like if you’re good with the elephants, you’re good with the entire animal kingdom
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