The Elephant Mystery Science Still Can’t Explain
Maybe it’s okay not to know…
Clips Used
Thula Thula elephants visit Lawrence’s home- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6t2dyL7_48
San Diego elephants protect baby during earthquake- https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1jzdvbc/elephants_in_the_san_diego_zoo_instinctively/
Elephant kills crocodile- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN2H11IZPBA
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@sunlight9056
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
positive comment
@zeronenine0
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
im just gonna say it's god, there will be a scientific explanation for it but heyy
God: yo [Information]
Animals: Oh word?
@phineasandfon
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
2:58 Bro it's Mmmmpumalanga, not mapulanga 😭😭
@attilaberdy9728
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
I love elephants, such unique animals.
@IntellectualDilettante
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
I think we’re learning now that many animals can understand us perfectly well , smart old elephants doubly so, if only we have the wisdom to be humble and accept that we are animals too and it’s our responsibility to build the communication skills
@RonBaker456
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
Interesting and amazing stuff. I have to ask though – Do you really know they didn't separate the elephants before "gunning them down"? LOL
If an elephant hurts humans it becomes dog food. They have certainly traumatized enough humans over the centuries and would kill us and run us off if they could, just like they do any other animal that comes into their territory. Literally survival of the fittest. Nature is way more brutal than humankind. I watched my cat tear a bird apart alive over 1/2 hr period just so he could play with it. We're a bunch of softies compared to the rest of the animal kingdom.
@ray1956
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
Humans BIG brains 🧠 probably block out other clues in nature 🧐👀👨🏿⚕️
@oldboy1904
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
Carte Blanche was a staple every Sunday while growing up.
@thisisaperson660
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
if elephants communicate through vibrations they sense in their feet and mourn in gatherings- is it possible the elephants felt all the cars/people gathering when they KNEW their friend wasnt home- and assumed right away that it was a funeral/greif gathering?
@Bernard-j6g
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
We arrogant humans keep under-estimating the capacity that animals have for consciousness, emotion, and cognition. We are so blinded by our pride. I suspect that they may wonder if we can think or feel anything, such has been the extent of our abuse of them and the natural world. We are CLUELESS about what is really going on. We are great at destroying the natural world; we are great at killing animals and destroying the natural world. God forgive us.
@探索猿
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
The Thula Thula part of this one always gets me. Two separate herds walking for hours to the house of a man who hadn't been out to see them in over a year — and they arrive the day after he dies. That's not "cute animal does thing," that's genuinely uncanny.
What I keep coming back to is that it doesn't require anything supernatural to explain — just senses we barely measure. Elephant rumbles carry through the ground for miles, they can pick up seismic vibrations through their feet and trunks, and their sense of smell is absurd. Somewhere in that mix there's a signal chain we haven't decoded yet.
Honestly the real mystery might not be "how did they know" but "how much are they perceiving that we never will."
@rjindian2995
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
We had Elephants at our local zoo. As a child I even remember them letting kids into the enclosure and touching/riding the elephants. Although I did notice they were shackled. When I grew older and revisited, the elephants were gone and that enclosure is still empty today. As it turns out, the day after we visited, the elephant (there we're 3, a calf and 2 adult) killed it's handler and apparently broke the shackle too, so it could have been much much worse but only the handler got killed and the other got injured. And i can almost swear I saw the shackle pretty much break the day i visited
@yusheitslv100
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
12:42 if you know who this is, you know
@fullmetal929
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
6:55 Lmao, this is the type of shit I think about any time I stumble upon one of those "animals are so much better than humans" ppl 😂😂
@JasonMazzulla
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
What I really think you're obligated to these creatures and everything else on Earth we have dominion of. I think the way things have turned out have been a trick. We traded in what we were supposed to be for personal gain.
I was just reading that not all neurons are created equal and that there are neurons that elephants, chimps, whales and humans have exclusively that other animals do not have. These are special creatures. All creatures are special but we really need to start doing our job and giving these animals the protections they deserve. Who else can do it but us? I think is a species we are obligated
@BubbleGumzKorner
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
The birds. The birds told them
@seraphik
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
10:04 the way they sleep puzzled together is so sweet
@tuataha1419
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
12:57 what do you mean iykyk!? 😨
@FantasyAddict95
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
I have a theory as to the Thula story… perhaps vehicles moving to and from his house and around the reserve produced a kind of vibration that they could detect from further away? And they recognized the patterns and behaviors of different vehicles, workers, and situational schedules. Whenever Laurence was away, other people would step in for daily routines and maintenance, and they recognized different people and learned that if they took over certain tasks in certain orders, that meant he wasn't home. Meanwhile, the day that he died, there was likely a lot of unusual activity that made the elephants nervous on top of knowing that he wasn't home. As they never saw him again, that place was the only thing they had that was associated with him, and that event was their only signal that something was wrong, they decided that that time and place was his "resting place."
@SibusisoFaya
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
Mnumzane isn't pronounced like that and it means Gentleman
@GabrielMbokaOFFICIAL
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
Mnu-nzane ‘u’ is ‘Oo’ not ‘a’
What on earth is Mananmnzuna😂
@okamifang4059
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
Sensitive to vibrations
@georgeadusei1003
October 19, 2026 at 10:42 am
12:55 Mad u didn't put polar bear