The herd of elephants happily sheltered to welcome the baby elephant..

[u/PrestigiousTax4223]

[u/deadborn666]

What a freakin' cool baby party! Elephants are such cool, intelligent and humble animals.

[u/ThoroughRat → u/deadborn666]

Can I question the logic of dropping the baby 4 feet first thing in it's life?

[u/superflycrazy → u/ThoroughRat]

In the rain. That shocked me too but then I was like it’s not like they’re gonna on their backs legs in stirrups with with the dad & doc telling her to push. Imagine falling at birth in the rain with a herd of elephants surrounding you. Impressive sight.

[u/OneLostOstrich → u/superflycrazy]

The mother has no control of what the weather is when it gives birth.

[u/Crabology → u/OneLostOstrich]

Fr what she gonna do go to zootopia medical?

[u/LookAtItGo123 → u/Crabology]

Guess it would be great if it exists?

[u/Crabology → u/LookAtItGo123]

Judy Hops memorial wouldn’t sit right with the kids.

[u/AshFraxinusEps → u/Crabology]

Memorial? Is she dead in your version of Zootopia?

[u/Crabology → u/AshFraxinusEps]

The worlds a hard place.

[u/CrazybyRX → u/Crabology]

Dropped into it right off the bat

[u/GrimmFox13 → u/AshFraxinusEps]

Her species has a lifespan of 9 years or so, and she was already an adult at the end of the movie in 2016 sooooo

[u/NhylX → u/GrimmFox13]

Elephants have an average lifespan of 86 years. Poor Francine. She probably had to attend the funerals of every single person she worked with.

[u/WhiteSuburbia → u/OneLostOstrich]

If a woman doesn’t want to have a baby in the rain, their body has a way of shutting it down, ya know?

Yours Truly, Male

[u/burlmy → u/WhiteSuburbia]

Only if it's legitimate rain

[u/Sad-Art8359 → u/burlmy]

If it’s legitimate rain then why was she wet?

[u/No-Turnips → u/Sad-Art8359]

Well if you hang out near clouds, she’s practically asking for it.

[u/utouchme → u/Sad-Art8359]

If it was Ben Shapiro's wife, she wouldn't have to worry about getting wet.

[u/DrunkCupid → u/Sad-Art8359]

It was like 5 minutes of fun rain, why does she have to go and give birth?

[u/mondayortampa → u/OneLostOstrich]

Lmfao. Fr these mfs will pick at anything 😂

[u/ebits21 → u/OneLostOstrich]

… the baby is used to being wet …

[u/haltiamreptar21 → u/OneLostOstrich]

You mean she can't just pinch back the baby and wait for a sunny day? /s

[u/Maverick0Johnson → u/superflycrazy]

Well, this is not like humans, where a newborn baby is very fragile. The baby already develop in the mothers womb like a 1 year old human baby.

[u/rtsynk → u/Maverick0Johnson]

brb, going to find a 1 year old to drop 4 feet

[u/Vivalyrian → u/rtsynk]

Well, elephants are somewhat larger than humans so if you compare size of a newborn elephant to a 1-year-old human, the former is still 15x larger than the latter.
Drop the human toddler 3.5 inches and you've got the equivalent fall.

[u/Accomplished-Bear988 → u/Vivalyrian]

Can we just, not try this hypothesis?

[u/SimulatedHumanity → u/Accomplished-Bear988]

I have heard many times over the years of babies falling out of a second-story window and being just fine. Here’s a recent story. Babies are soft and squishy throughout.

[u/Accomplished-Bear988 → u/SimulatedHumanity]

Can confirm, I am the floor below.

[u/Zaq1996 → u/SimulatedHumanity]

So my hypothesis is that babies are made of rubber and bounce. I will need a sample size of at least 30 to test this

[u/MangoSea323 → u/Zaq1996]

Fun fact: baby ducks will fall out of trees and bounce after they're hatched.

[u/PoonaniiPirate → u/Accomplished-Bear988]

Of course we are not, but stupid armchair redditors thinking they have a “gotcha” at nature makes a lot of peoples gears grind, including me. Human babies are incredibly fragile and need parental care for like years before they can do anything. Elephants, not really. They c an already walk really soon after birth. It’s just not a good comparison.

Now if someone could show me an instance of a newborn elephant dying from this type of fall at birth, maybe the conversation would go different.

[u/mayonaizmyinstrument → u/PoonaniiPirate]

Honestly. If it was a problem, there wouldn't have been a second generation of elephants. The first ones would've splatted and the species would have died out.

Meanwhile, the mother!! She has a placenta likely still partially attached to her get YOINKED by a four-foot fall with like 200+lbs on the other end, and somehow that doesn't cause a massive bleed?! I'm impressed. I mean, just imagine if the umbilicus wasn't cut, but instead we just heave-ho'd the damn baby like it was a hangnail

[u/DrunkCupid → u/mayonaizmyinstrument]

☹️ I agree with everything you said

I appreciate your...colourful language

[u/superfucky → u/PoonaniiPirate]

The fact is the fragility of human babies is a significant anomaly in the animal kingdom. Our babies are basically born grossly underdeveloped because otherwise they wouldn't fit through our bipedal pelvises. It's the trade-off we made for advanced intellect and civilization.

If anything, elephants are looking at us like "why are you birthing it now?! It's not ready yet!"

[u/lazypieceofcrap → u/Accomplished-Bear988]

Then how can we trust the science? 🤔

I say we go for it.

[u/SkatingForTherapy → u/Vivalyrian]

I've thrown my son so much further than that. He seems alright.

[u/sharpshooter999 → u/Vivalyrian]

I remember when our first kid was born. The nurse said "They're simultaneously fragile and durable. Don't be scared to hold them, you're not going to break them"

[u/weikor → u/Vivalyrian]

Do heights work like that?

I feel like a 5 foot fall, is a 5 foot fall for anything.

If anything elephants are heavier, so a drop like that would be even worse. (By your logic, a mouse that's smaller than a human would have a worse fall than a human baby from the same height, when in reality - a mouse weighs less and can survive bigger drops)

But, the elephant drops the baby onto grass. Also the sack (you can see it breaking) probably slows down the elephant. And since that's "how they give birth" there are probably a few evolutionary things to keep the baby safe, like softer bones or an instinct to find softer ground during labor.

[u/HenceProvedhuehuehue → u/rtsynk]

No.. Stahp...

[u/FrenchObserver11 → u/superflycrazy]

This really teaches me how different humans are. We can't do shit for ourselves, for a long ass time.

This thing has got to figure out which way is up, what all 4 of its limbs are, object permanence, mirror behavior, and its entire motor functions, in like almost no time at all.

Aaaaaand, now I'm wondering if we could somehow cook in the womb longer if we could come out more competent (like if we evolved for c-sections or something futuristic).

[u/IANANarwhal → u/FrenchObserver11]

My understanding is we can’t cook any longer or our heads would be too big for mom to handle. It’s a balance between cooking and being birthable.

[u/ZombieHomeslice → u/IANANarwhal]

Correct. Being bipedal and being able to stand upright comes with a narrower pelvic opening. Women who had babies too big for the narrowing birth canal during this transition would have been more likely to die unable to pass the child. The genes passed on are for babies that cook just long enough to survive but not long enough to plug up mom to death.

[u/Eternally65 → u/FrenchObserver11]

cook in the womb longer

Are you kidding? Birth is hard enough on the mother. Ask any woman who has kids if another year would be even more fun.

/s

[u/superflycrazy → u/Eternally65]

Having lost my first born to SIDS, I wish he would have cooked longer 💔💗

[u/D3PyroGS → u/superflycrazy]

damn, sorry to hear that. hope you and your family are doing well.

[u/superflycrazy → u/D3PyroGS]

Tysm <3 i have a rainbow baby girl about to turn 10 and 2 stepsons. We’re thriving.

[u/rabbitluckj → u/FrenchObserver11]

So we actually have babies before they are ready because we'd die trying to give birth if we waited till they were ready. The first 3-4 months of a babies life is called the forth trimester and you should be mimicking a womb environment for them because they really should still be in one. (Swaddling, rocking, lots of skin to skin contact, baths for them to just float in, etc)

[u/eliaquimtx → u/FrenchObserver11]

The thing about human development in womb is more to do with how the human body can't support bigger babies, specially because of the size our heads and the size of our brains. So, to be able to be born and not generally kill our mothers, we come out underdeveloped compared with many animals in the wild and need intensive care for the first years of your life.

Also, as we are a group and work in groups, we are at the top of the food chain, so we can afford to have underdeveloped babies. Animals that are usually prey and don't have nesting and/or communities as a survival strategy, have to be almost fully developed at birth and with motor skills fully working to be able to survive. After all, a frail baby is easy prey to predators if we can't protect them.

Maybe, to be almost fully formed, humans would need a year more in the womb and our bodies just can't.

[u/JavelinR → u/eliaquimtx]

In addition to the big brain thing, humans being bipedal also affected the shape of the pelvic bone since all our weight and center of mass is balanced there. So it's a combination of having a bigger head and smaller opening.

[u/eliaquimtx → u/eliaquimtx]

I think, besides becoming predators, when we started walking on two legs our pelvis got shallower (that's also why human males have bigger penises than the rest of primates, because shallower pelvis, had to be fixed with deeper vaginas) and other mechanisms had to be adaptable to support babies as they are. That's also why women in general have weaker bones then men and are more flexible too, specially when pregnant, the pelvis need a whole lot of moving to have our huge heads pass through.

[u/superflycrazy → u/FrenchObserver11]

Ultimately comes down to contractions and when the body is ready to deliver. My first went two weeks over due date & I was induced. I lost him shy of a month old after a c section. I always wonder if my due date was wrong and if he’d still be with us if we waited longer. But he was 10.5lbs so it was definitely safer to my health to have the induction when I did. So many factors with childbirth but I’m all for technological advances in childbirth if it means saving mothers and babies!

[u/WeepingSomnabulist → u/superflycrazy]

sorry to hear about your son.

[u/superflycrazy → u/WeepingSomnabulist]

Appreciate that. I have rainbow baby girl about to turn 10 <3

[u/lsp2005 → u/FrenchObserver11]

We cannot. Two weeks after forty is when a baby must come out or it dies.

[u/CraftyKlutz → u/FrenchObserver11]

It's a trade off we made evolutionarily when we decided walking upright was the way to go. Narrow hips + big brains meant we had to figure out how to help our undercooked babies outside the womb because we couldn't birth them any larger than we do (c sections as a proper surgery has helped a lot. Before that if your baby was too big it was death for at least the mother if not both)

[u/RedEyeFlightToOZ → u/superflycrazy]

I think birth would be easier if women squatted instead of on their back to push. Gravity and all.

[u/JustSailOff → u/RedEyeFlightToOZ]

Most underdeveloped countries give birth in the squatting position, using birthing polls. Gravity is a thing. I don't know why Americans lay on their backs. It makes no sense.

[u/KiltedTraveller → u/JustSailOff]

Generally these days, doctors recommend that women get into whatever position they feel comfortable.

The reason why lying on ones back is the most common method is because it's advantageous for the medical staff. It gives a clear view into the birthing canal.

[u/superflycrazy → u/RedEyeFlightToOZ]

Some do squat on balls and with assistive bars but ultimately hands held guide the baby out so that might be a little awkward for medical staff lol

[u/Back_Alley_Sack_Wax → u/superflycrazy]

That elephant mom gets my respect. Pushes out the baby and she just keeps on trucking like it’s nothing. Totally not how any of mine went.

Elephants: 1 Humans: 0.

[u/NorthChiller → u/superflycrazy]

Along with rain comes drops in barometric pressure that can result in labor. Happens with humans as well. Bonus points for being able to rinse off some of the baby goo. Can you imagine waking around coated in all that? Ew.

[u/HarryButtwhisker → u/superflycrazy]

On a hill!

[u/KinkyBADom → u/ThoroughRat]

Logic???? It’s just nature.

[u/YIKESVIDEOGAMES → u/KinkyBADom]

No you see redditors need a 34 page essay that explains why elephants don’t give birth like humans with facts and logic.

[u/FetusGoesYeetus → u/YIKESVIDEOGAMES]

Fun fact: Humans are among the most inefficient animals at giving birth because the baby is basically released half cooked, because if it was left to fully develop in the womb the head would be too big to get out without fatally injuring the mother.

[u/SkollFenrirson → u/FetusGoesYeetus]

That is a fun fact, /u/FetusGoesYeetus

[u/Illithid_Substances → u/ThoroughRat]

I've heard that with giraffes (who for obvious reasons have one hell of a fall at birth), the fall actually severs the umbilical cord, opens the amniotic sac, and hitting the ground stimulates its first breaths

Evolution makes us all very different. The fall just isn't harmful to the elephant baby as it would be a human one.

[u/Curious-Story-2634 → u/ThoroughRat]

We’ll contact the designers with your feedback.

[u/Grazedaze → u/ThoroughRat]

Gravity helps get them out of there and babies are bouncy rubbery beings so the fall doesn’t damage them.

This is also where the term Airdrop comes from.

[u/JohnLockeNJ → u/Grazedaze]

Actually airdrop is a concatenation of the latin phrase aird rop meaning to transfer wirelessly between Apple devices.

[u/Bedda_R → u/ThoroughRat]

There is no midwife who can help by pulling once most of the baby is "out", so you need every bit of assistance that gravity can provide. Therefore the best position is to stand up.

In addition to that the skull of most newborn mammals is already fully fused. Only human babies need a non-fused skull bones to get the gigantic skull through those tiny bipedal hips.

Four legged mammals have wide hips, there is enough room to get a full sized baby skull through there.

Therefore most newbown mammals aren't as fragile as human newborns.

If you question "the drop" for elephants you might want to search for a video of a giraffe giving birth.

[u/spacestationkru → u/ThoroughRat]

Sometimes there just isn't a doctor nearby when the baby comes, you know.?

[u/Mash-Mashmallows → u/ThoroughRat]

Well, it’s been working for thousands of years for them so…

I think the elephants got it figured out.

[u/StandbyBigWardog → u/ThoroughRat]

Maybe it helps start their breathing? Like a big ole smack on the back by Midwife Earth.

[u/northernbloke → u/ThoroughRat]

kids are remarkably bouncy, not that I ever dropped my kids,....much.

[u/EnIdiot → u/ThoroughRat]

It is like spanking a baby’s ass to expel amniotic fluid. That momma picked a slight uphill slope for a reason.

[u/Tinktur → u/deadborn666]

and humble animals.

They might well be arrogant as fuck, we really don't know.

[u/CowFu → u/Tinktur]

That one died trying to fight a train, so at least one wasn't humble.

[u/JT1757 → u/CowFu]

maybe the train fucked his elephant wife, man. Don’t be so quick to judge.

[u/Deklaration → u/Tinktur]

They are aware of their body weight, and step gently before supporting themselves. You would be okay if an elephant stepped on your foot, because it would move instead of crushing it. That’s pretty humble for such a large animal.

[u/heeltoelemon → u/Deklaration]

Horses have no such politeness.

[u/Thiege227 → u/heeltoelemon]

Horses are dumb as rocks

[u/heeltoelemon → u/Thiege227]

Truly. Not all of them, but at least a few. Pretty, dumb, and expensive.

Hi, I’m a horse. I managed to find the one thing in the field that would hurt me and step on it, hard.

[u/[deleted] → u/deadborn666]

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[u/modern_consultancy → u/[deleted]]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GROUND

[u/DimesOHoolihan → u/modern_consultancy]

IM AN A DUUUUUUULT

[u/Caracalla81 → u/deadborn666]

Humble?

[u/Brandolini_Law → u/Caracalla81]

Ever seen an elephant brag?

[u/walooofe → u/Caracalla81]

Humble.

[u/AKredlake]

Lesson: don’t mess with baby elephants or you’re fucked

[u/oteezy333 → u/AKredlake]

We should've told that to the lady who got trampled to death...twice

[u/Cosmic_Hashira → u/oteezy333]

what

[u/oteezy333 → u/Cosmic_Hashira]

She fucked with a baby elephant, mama killed her, then came to her funeral and killed her again

[u/Cosmic_Hashira → u/oteezy333]

what in the fucking fuck

you got a source, any document?

[u/oteezy333 → u/Cosmic_Hashira]

Nope

[u/Cosmic_Hashira → u/oteezy333]

ah no worries

but that is seriously fucked up

[u/oteezy333 → u/Cosmic_Hashira]

https://sea.mashable.com/life/20614/elephant-kills-old-woman-then-returns-to-trample-her-corpse-at-the-funeral

[u/67ITCH → u/oteezy333]

Elephants never forget... nor forgive.

[u/Atrocity_unknown → u/67ITCH]

The elephant that never forgets ... To KILL!

[u/bearbullhorns → u/oteezy333]

Who gave that elephant the date and time of the funeral? Lmao just instigating/s

[u/ur_opinion_is_wrong → u/bearbullhorns]

Probably smelled her when they brought the body back.

[u/GreatWentGin → u/oteezy333]

Damn. I think people should start considering using the phrase “mama elephant” instead of mama bear.

[u/Giovanni_Wonderland → u/oteezy333]

That's actually incredible. The woman thought death ended the game, she thought wrong..(cheesy 80's police show music plays)

[u/cthulusgranny → u/oteezy333]

Why is that article about an elephant attack in India illustrated with images of African elephants? Including some in front of Mount Kilimanjaro... I appreciate you providing a link - it's just something that irks me!

[u/LaNague → u/oteezy333]

im sure that is a 100% factual story from those villagers.

[u/FloatnPuff → u/Cosmic_Hashira]

Here you go. Snopes says they're unable to confirm or deny. I want to believe it's true.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/20/elephant-trampled-woman-funeral/

[u/Mr_Abe_Froman → u/FloatnPuff]

Elephants hold funerals, bury their dead, and recognize grave sites so it is incredibly plausible that they attacked her funeral knowing what they were doing.

[u/knowledgeable_diablo → u/oteezy333]

Then torn her house down. Don’t forget the house demolition; just to really put the whole mafioso touch to it. “We know who you are, what you did and WHERE you live!!”

[u/Mr_Abe_Froman → u/knowledgeable_diablo]

That "elephants never forget" saying isn't a fun fact, it's a warning.

[u/driftwood-and-waves → u/oteezy333]

Read that, figured the lady had some something stupid. Read she screwed with a baby and totally support mama elephants actions. I’d stomp a bitch who messed with my kid too

[u/Johannes_Keppler → u/oteezy333]

AND the elephant brought their friends and they destroyed the entire village, including killing the dead woman's livestock.

https://sea.mashable.com/life/20614/elephant-kills-old-woman-then-returns-to-trample-her-corpse-at-the-funeral

Incredibly, the elephant then proceeded to attack the funeral and targeted Maya's corpse, trampling it furiously before letting out a roar that signalled other elephants from its herd to wreck the rest of the village. The same elephant also somehow managed to identify Maya's home, and went on smash it, killing the goats living there.

She must have done something to make the elephant hate her that much, one would think.

[u/knowledgeable_diablo → u/AKredlake]

Probably get you, then find out where your funeral is, fuck you up again and then destroy your house. An Elephant never forgets nor ever forgives.

[u/7th_universe_hopper]

Reminds me of this one vid where a herd of elephants at a sanctuary or something are just fucken booking it across like a whole acre to meet the new orphan they are adopting and they’re all excitedly cheering as they run. It was very cute and also reminded me that elephants are loud as fuck

[u/CorklesTheBorkles → u/7th_universe_hopper]

Got a link to that? That sounds adorable!

[u/7th_universe_hopper → u/CorklesTheBorkles]

yes actually cause I just looked it up after making this comment

[u/pm_me_ur_unicorn_ → u/7th_universe_hopper]

I love this, thank you. <3

[u/TheOtherManSpider → u/pm_me_ur_unicorn_]

Let me introduce you to r/babyelephantgifs

[u/pm_me_ur_unicorn_ → u/TheOtherManSpider]

I love you too.

[u/Johannes_Keppler → u/pm_me_ur_unicorn_]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khLJU9cLDmY this is how the young elephant in the video above ended up in the sanctuary. Slightly longer (four minutes) version of the above video really, offering some context.

His mother was an abused working elephant...

[u/Moal → u/7th_universe_hopper]

I love that they’re like a bunch of excited aunties who all want to kiss the new baby. 😂

[u/Webbyx01 → u/Moal]

That's literally the top YT comment.

[u/PromiseLastAccount → u/Webbyx01]

That’s interesting. Youtube must change the top comment for everyone because mine was “I will never understand how anyone wants to hurt these creatures”

[u/Moal → u/Webbyx01]

I had to scroll for a bit to find the YT comment about auntie elephants. I like that other people saw what I saw too, lol!

[u/ev_is_curious → u/7th_universe_hopper]

Elephants are the best.

[u/BonittaM → u/7th_universe_hopper]

This is precious thank you so much. Elephants are quickly becoming one of my favourite animals. Just pure love

[u/NonConformistFlmingo → u/7th_universe_hopper]

The world doesn't deserve elephants. Such wholesome creatures who have better family structure and support than 99% of the human race.

[u/CreditSea5958]

The relief on the moms face. Almost 24 months of being pregnant

[u/SetSailForAss → u/CreditSea5958]

24!?

[u/Beautiful-Willow5696 → u/SetSailForAss]

Yeah Usually the bigger Is the animal the longer they have to wait

[u/VicodinMakesMeItchy → u/Beautiful-Willow5696]

Yeah, it takes a lot of time to make that huuuge baby!

Elephant babies are also more capable and developed than human babies. They get up right away and have relatively developed senses (minus their trunk-control abilities ☺️). Human babies are… Helpless blobs in comparison. They can’t move with purpose for months after birth, and that’s not even them having independent mobility! Eyes don’t fully open, lungs need to finish maturing a bit… Human babies just aren’t nearly as “well-cooked” as the babies of animals which come out fully baked and ready to go 😊

[u/solum_i → u/VicodinMakesMeItchy]

Because otherwise human babies wouldn't be able to be born, their head would be too big to go through natural birth.

[u/VicodinMakesMeItchy → u/solum_i]

Yep! We got some biiiiig heads in comparison to most vertebrates lol

Edit to add: our larger brains are def an advantage! That advantage doesn’t come into play much until the human baby is older (:

[u/saraijs → u/VicodinMakesMeItchy]

Not just big heads, walking upright means we have narrow hips, too. Not a winning combination for easy childbirth.

[u/Standin373 → u/saraijs]

Not a winning combination for easy childbirth.

This can be seen in population levels, before modern medicine our species incredibly difficult birthing system kept our numbers in check until we got rid of most of the risks of childbirth only then our numbers sky rocketed.

[u/Welpthisishere → u/Standin373]

Also large infant mortality rates have dropped pretty drastically especially in places like Africa which is the fast growing population wise. Other places like Europe and America are having less kids which is helping stabilize the population. No need to have a bunch of kids expecting like half to not make it to 20.

[u/SetSailForAss → u/VicodinMakesMeItchy]

That is super cool! Humans are weak in comparison lol

[u/Nimonic → u/SetSailForAss]

It's why we're so smart, so it's worth it.

[u/kurburux → u/Beautiful-Willow5696]

Giraffes have 15 months.

But Blue Whales for example only have 10-12 months.

Their size is irrelevant to how long they carry their offspring. The porpoise and the blue whale — the largest animal on Earth — both carry their young for around 11 months.

So there are kinda exceptions as well.

[u/cervesa → u/kurburux]

Seems weirdly formulated. It doesnt seem to be irrelevant. Just not the single defining factor.

[u/CaptainEdmonton → u/kurburux]

I wonder if being underwater the entire time helps with the pregnancy

[u/werker → u/CaptainEdmonton]

Well, I think being under Vodka for 9 months helped my Mother ploomf me out.

[u/MJMurcott → u/CreditSea5958]

18-22 months.

[u/ShartThrasher]

Anyone else wonder what that fluid pouring out of that elephant's vagina tastes like?

....

Yeah, me neither!

:(

[u/acanadiangooseforyou → u/ShartThrasher]

Jesus Christ, fucking rank dude, take my upvotes and fuck off

[u/ShartThrasher → u/acanadiangooseforyou]

I'm guessing it's like spoiled pork thats marinated in old 2% milk.

The more I think about it (and I can't stop), the more I just want a whiff.

[u/31337hacker → u/ShartThrasher]

You’re so nasty. My goodness.

[u/That_guye → u/31337hacker]

I regret opening Reddit today

[u/bananabeast07 → u/That_guye]

[u/Just_Games04 → u/bananabeast07]

[u/inf3ct3dn0n4m3 → u/ShartThrasher]

Jesus christ I just woke up and didn't want to read that first thing in the morning.

[u/CorgiMonsoon → u/ShartThrasher]

Buttermilk

[u/DalvaniusPrime → u/ShartThrasher]

^ ^ This Motherfucker needs Jesus

Side note, a friend of a friend ate their babies placenta in a lasagne. They invited friends.

[u/acanadiangooseforyou → u/DalvaniusPrime]

What the fuck, why

[u/cmgrayson → u/acanadiangooseforyou]

Placenta has nutritional value people eat them all the time. You can have them encapsulated.

[u/acanadiangooseforyou → u/cmgrayson]

But there are so many other food with nutritional value, why was placenta picked

[u/hgtv_neighbor → u/acanadiangooseforyou]

This is what I think every time eating a placenta is mentioned. Like, go grab a couple steaks and some leafy greens...maybe a multivitamin to round it out.

[u/cmgrayson → u/hgtv_neighbor]

They probably eat that too but wanted to eat placenta.

[u/wohho → u/cmgrayson]

"all the time"

No, they don't.

[u/Gr00mpa → u/DalvaniusPrime]

About a week after my kid was born, my wife’s friend’s husband was telling me how his sister grilled her placenta and at made sandwiches out of it. It wasn’t the first I had heard of cooking and eating placenta for the nutritional value, but it was a little weird because for a moment there I felt like I needed to say something like: “dude, the placenta’s already gone—go eat something else!”

[u/LethalLetdown → u/ShartThrasher]

What a wonderdul day to have the ability to read.

[u/lily-laura → u/ShartThrasher]

Like blood and saline

[u/imjokingbutnotreally → u/ShartThrasher]

Go and touch grass

No wait it's soaked with Elefant vagina fluids, Touch something else.

[u/31337hacker → u/ShartThrasher]

What the fuck.

[u/Busy_Distribution296 → u/ShartThrasher]

R/cursedcomments

[u/Just-a-Vietnamese → u/ShartThrasher]

What the fuck ?

[u/Nole_in_ATX → u/ShartThrasher]

Oaky afterbirth

[u/TheRealBroda]

The music destroys this kind of videos.

[u/bamiam → u/TheRealBroda]

So does Reddit’s shitty audio encoding

[u/Caayaa → u/bamiam]

Reddit’s shitty video player

[u/absolutenoober → u/TheRealBroda]

The video is enough, there's no need to put in some generic music to set the vibe or whatever.

[u/MrMufflns → u/TheRealBroda]

I sped the video up to 4x and it sounded like weird bongo edm. this on top of a family of elephants zooming around gave me a good laugh.

[u/TrixieH0bbitses]

Yo did that one elephant shit on the newborn at the end? 🤢🤣

[u/jnthnmdr → u/TrixieH0bbitses]

Thank goodness, someone else saw it too.

[u/MSR_Ultra → u/TrixieH0bbitses]

That's a great honour in elephant society.

[u/spektrol → u/TrixieH0bbitses]

wait till you find out what happens during human childbirth

[u/TrixieH0bbitses → u/spektrol]

I'm pretty sure another person doesn't barge into the delivery room like the kool-aid man to shit on human infants. Like 99%. I could be wrong, though. I'm neither a doctor nor a parent 🤷‍♂️

[u/jmadluck → u/TrixieH0bbitses]

More common than you think

[u/BadOpinionsAndOnions → u/TrixieH0bbitses]

I might just be tired, but your comment made me laugh until I cried.

[u/xarsha_93 → u/TrixieH0bbitses]

"Jesus, Frank!"

"Oh, is that not what we're doing? Why are we all gathered together then?"

[u/TrixieH0bbitses → u/xarsha_93]

"Jesus, Frank! We've been over this!"

"What are you talking about??"

"Don't gaslight me, asshole. We both know you didn't forget."

[u/Makicheesay → u/TrixieH0bbitses]

It did fucken hell!

[u/Trivedi_on → u/TrixieH0bbitses]

first shot for the immune system

[u/curious_kitten_1]

Anyone else get a bit nervous with all those legs around??

[u/Lathari → u/curious_kitten_1]

Do you know why elephants have wrinkly soles?

To give ants a final chance.

[u/Janus_Grayden → u/curious_kitten_1]

Elephants are very careful about where they step, they're very conscientious that way. For instance, the whole "elephants are afraid of mice" myth stems from the fact that they really don't want to accidentally stomp on those little guys.

[u/actuarial_venus]

That is a celebration of life!

[u/VicodinMakesMeItchy → u/actuarial_venus]

That was my thought! Family is very important to elephants—everyone wants to come meet the new baby 🥰

[u/mwerichards]

Is it just me or do these elephants look a little skinny?

[u/Lee_Troyer → u/mwerichards]

I'm wondering if this video was filmed in some landscape ratio and later crushed into portrait / 1/1.

[u/TomStanford67]

Feels like this is instinctual protection. The mother is likely weak from all the labor, and the baby clearly can't defend itself, so the herd steps in to protect them both from any predators.

[u/AndIMustFollowIfICan → u/TomStanford67]

yeah, looks to me like more of a circling of the wagons type situation. esp with all the little ones moving to the center. i know nothing about elephants though.

[u/oxtaylorsoup]

That's not rain, that's my tears at how fucking beautiful this is.

[u/Hot_Dog_Cobbler]

WELCOME TO LIFE, BITCH. ITS A THREE FOOT DROP AND IT GETS WORSE FROM THERE.

[u/Wonderful-Cup-9556]

Are the adult elephants in the video looking “skinny”?

[u/gregogary96]

Man I'm tired of these shitty songs, especially on videos that actually have sound.

[u/Oil__Man]

Fuck music in reddit videos

It, without fail, ruins the diegetic audio, as well as my mood

[u/fncraigc]

Gooble gobble one of us! Gooble gobble one of us!

[u/uucchhiihhaa]

Yeeeeeet

[u/KonosNik]

Original https://youtu.be/MSxw6D6Wl4U

[u/funbobbyfun]

Ok just relieved not to have a gender reveal forest fire