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
https://www.youtube.com/XHB06400CANNES/videos
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
ANNOUNCEMENT: I have a calendar out, based on my book 100 Animals That Can Effing End if any of you are interested: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Animals-That-Can-F*cking-End-You-2024-Day-to-Day-Calendar/Mamadou-Ndiaye/9780789343680
Check out my book: https://a.co/d/e94Lxl9
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
Clips Used:
White ghost elephant: https://youtu.be/mEqwRVEkeY0?si=_VoMujJqCVA7jCHL
Giant tusker: https://youtu.be/zgN14oadbRw?si=GuaN0-FJwBL9GSr1
Elephant throws stick at rhino: https://youtu.be/NuDtiurkLu8?si=75I9gQp_-ixGacJ6
Baby buffalo presses elephant: https://youtu.be/4ar3m8ZFI3A?si=ioh3jTkS464j6mmZ
Elephant swimming: https://youtu.be/9xK1jfiuj_w?si=_QmvMAIersfQIJuV
Elephant crosses river: https://youtu.be/bEsLP9Nc6GQ?si=GQ0cFKmyDII0_ffV
Koshik the talking elephant: https://youtu.be/PR6Mf9dhZrg?si=sxBn35QJuOiA8dPB
Thula thula sanctuary elephants: https://youtu.be/R6t2dyL7_48?si=CtVkOCTW40XYnGEP
Elephants run to meet new baby: https://youtu.be/H_D4qqciraI?si=8O6YueaQo9h7_Qhf
Elephant tries to rescue rhino: https://youtu.be/ei4Epgz8dgA?si=EGcS8tMrzblHtc9u
Elephant outsmarts electric fence: https://youtu.be/54MEscueiYg?si=TLzIAVSK-xisBK_q
Elephant awareness test: https://youtu.be/akjDRRgeUoI?si=KKr60_FNemfvSPtI
Elephants grieving: https://youtu.be/TjtrdpSwEUY?si=E0EWRiFtTXTELfhp
Research Referenced:
Elephant sunflower experiment: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Plotnik-et-als-2019-study-Elephants-smelled-two-buckets-containing-sunflower-seeds_fig4_350830859
Elephant Awareness: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/elephants-body-awareness-adds-to-increasing-evidence-of-their-intelligence
If you’ve read this far, what’s your favorite animal?
@mndiaye_97
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Well, I don't know how but you guys did it. 150k and counting. Looks like I'm gonna be seeing elephants real soon….
@simoncity9145
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
5:00 BRUH HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 😂
@chitoge7816
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Where my elephant sanctuary video at?
@risingbull84
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
(A) Elephants [in general] are my favorite animal as well. (B) I completely agree with you that they shouldn't be held in captivity. (C) I sometimes wonder how similar or different mammoths were from modern elephants [e.g., Were they as intelligent as extant species?]. (D) I just liked and subscribed.
@theDaftmuse
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Elephants are also immune to cancer due to their genetics having so much redundancy.
@michaelcooke8531
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
5:05
@nipammistry9616
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Wow!! There's this fantazy web novel where the apex hegemons on land are elephants and thier clansmen – I'll Surpass The MC
@ONF8
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
5:43 Veritasium music kicks
@korinobara
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
i learned at Disney that Elephants are afraid of beehives; if that cap or fact. Sea world lied to me enough about animal well fare
@22Kalliopa
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Very cool seeing Lawrence Anthony mentioned online. Thula Thula game reserve is just down the road from the farm I grew up on in Heatonville (the local community).
@KylezGotGame
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Ain’t no way I’m playing OSRS and wanted to learn about elephants and heard the background music on this vid 💀💀
@ultrabutstink5532
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
11:38 now I'm no scientist, so prove me if I'm wrong, but they would have to understand the cycle of days, and our orbit around the sun right? BUTTT again this is just me — I don't know for sure LOOL
@quangtuantran7181
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
There s a fable in my country, abt a bunch of blind fortune tellers trying to describe an elephant. They r blind, so each one of them describe the elephant in a different shape n form, hyperfixating on the parts they can conceive. This is a story abt seeing the bigger picture, and something is more than the sum of its parts. But it also shows us, how effing weird an elephant is if u just look at its individual features, like a bunch of animals rolled up in 1. Im not surprised abt the theory that behemoths, the king of beasts, were just elephants.
@jmsgridiron5628
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Man animals are so dope. Elephants being able to mimic/understand humans is beyond impressive to me. Life really do find a way.
@Julia-lk8jn
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Well, whatever that is at 0:08 is adorable beyond words. Looks like roman armor and a piece of jewelry had a baby. 😍
@chelseagrasso5391
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
I think you've convinced me to make elephants one of my top favourite animals, and I never would have thought that before! This vid brought me to tears of awe…
@WhiscashFC_amp
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
The elephant in the thumbnail is just a shiny elephant
@amirrazor666
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Very well done video 😍
@RobloxStudioEnjoyer
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Crabs solos
@atheistsince1210
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Honestly I simply can't deal with poaching evil greed Chinese traditional medicine the entire biosphere is at risk fck the Chinese I'll take nature .
@thescrimble
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
0:45
woah, they're actually just giant hairless rodents huh
Suddenly the elephant's relation to the hyrax doesn't seem so far fetched after all 🤔
@grephi6416
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
if someones got their nose bigger than my leg, the sense of smell gotta be strong to match the sheer volume of the nose
im not surprised they can swim this well, elephants have built in snorkeling tube after all
@yunantheobserver6841
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
They say monkeys would rule when we suddenly gone some even argued octopus and squids….nah this is it.
@iWonchan
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
korean speaking elephant is wacky
@naDu4653
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
There is an elephant sanctuary in Hugo Oklahoma. I went there. It was amazing. We had a private tour. We were able to pet and wash one of the elephants they saved from a circus. We went for my birthday. At the end of our tour, I hugged that lovely elephant, and I cried. I thanked her for being a live.
@neo660311
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Drake 4:38
@steampunk1902
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
romans:what a pacific day here on the alp- WHAT THE FUCK ITS EVEN THAT?
Anibal:hello 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘
@MrCcking
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Hey if you want to role play as something like an elephant play path of titans it has a mod that is available on all versions of the game in some servers.
@VinwardWasHere
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Alright so who’s gonna genetically modify elephants so they stay small 🙄
@millenials_best
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
I was happy about baby elephants but yo, now I'm literally crying towards the end of the video. Look what we've done to these beautiful sentient beings
@millenials_best
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Baby elephants 😂 helicopter 😅 that's adorable
@razgriz1ne1ne48
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
I remember a while back a museum trip when someone proposed a hypothetical "what if dinosaurs were brought to modern Africa?" And obviously the side question "how would a T rex vs Elephant situation play out?"
Some said T rex would win cause … well T rex, others said Elephant cause it was essentially a while less armored, slightly bigger and way more intelligent Triceratops, but one of the guides said Elephants would likely fair well against a rex because of their intelligent minds , mainly they could employ weapons like throwing branches and rocks at them.
@bambisita6857
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
thank you for putting in your thoughts about elephants in zoos!!
@walnzell9328
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
"Perfect animal."
*Takes two years to pop out a single baby.*
@myleswelnetz6700
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Life has been around on Earth for billions of years, and some things never changed in that time. For example, there are a few exceptions to this rule, but the proboscideans are the biggest land animals ever since the dinosaurs.
@Rondman
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
This dude didnt waste anytime with that Helen Keller Line. Thats cold lol
@Steam152-g6b
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
hippos running under water is the funniest shit in the animal kingdom
@vibeslide
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
The "Why you running?!"-joke hit hard.
Real hard.
@FoxxyFire-HellFrost
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Elephants are one of my mom's favorite animals. She got to interact one on one with former work elephants in Thailand. Everyone was assigned their own elephant that they fed and bathed with. She said it was one of the best things she ever got to do in her life.
However, we also went to Tanzania and got to see wild African elephants, mostly herds with babies. Though, we did get charged at by a big male Bull who came rampaging out of the bush and that was very scary. You don't even realize how big they are until they're literally feet away from you and coming up on you like the police on a thief. They are scary fast and when they flare their ears, they look bigger than the vehicle you're actually in.
@JakeJohnson-j8z
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
7:32 my heart stopped yo
@Classysassy12
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Yahh, but i dont see them on the moon, ooops sorry lurned to throw a rock sowwy😅
@CrazyBenWRYYYY
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
them elephants think they kars lmfao
@axiezimmah
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
11:30 ok but how do they know the date?
@JerdMcLean
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Arent you that idiot who thinks nature hasnt shown scientific evidencd of alpha makes in wolf populations?
@thetornadocrusader968
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Or God created it?.
@prabhatpatil2383
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
One thing you should know is that natural doesn't do anything by accident it us humans who do things by accident
@JackrubEchternach
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Na 2:02 it's a collectable
@AndersonElCapitan
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Don't mind me, I'm just crying about elephants. They're a better species than we could ever hope to be
@myleswelnetz6700
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
4:27
Puts on goggles and spins around with her trunk in the air.
@dirkschobben6530
October 13, 2024 at 12:41 pm
😂😂