Comments by "MikeAG333" (@MikeAG333) on "Elephant Saves Injured Lion From Hyenas" video.

  1. The elephant DIDN'T (knowingly) help out the lion.
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  2. Stop anthropomorshising. There is nothing other than your imagination to suggest the the elephant knew the lion, or that the elephant was in some way protecting the lion. Oh, and "two little bastards"........there's something "better" about lions than hyaenas, is there? "Two little bastards" and "I love animals" in consecutive sentences!! You really need to have a little think.
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  3.  @oliviam191  I am an ethologist (look it up). I've also been travelling in Africa my whole life. This elephant was doing what elephants do all the time: charging animals which get in its way, or which annoy it, or which it just fancies charging. I've seen them do exactly the same thing with warthogs, giraffe, buffaloes, and countless other, many, many times. The fact that it apparently benefitted a lion is 100% incidental.
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  4. Male lions are kicked out their pride as they reach maturity. Solo sub-adult male lions are absolutely standard. Same with bull elephants. Spotted hyaena's clan structure is also a matriarchy in which the males leave in ones and twos to try to start their own breeding group. So all of these sightings are absolutely standard.
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  5. @winterbreak Hyaenas can smell blood, and they can smell hormones in urine which indicate injury, but they cannot smell "weakness". They can determine injury by sight by the movement of other animals. That lion was pretty safe from just 2 hyaenas. They might have harried it to see if it could defend itself, but it was mobile enough to deal with them.
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  6. Of course it would. Do think real life is like a Disney fantasy?
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  7.  @mirabellaolson6410  No of course you don't need my approval. You're wrong, but you're perfectly entitled to be wrong. This sort of channel attracts people who want to kid themselves that animals behave altruistically, and that there are "good animals" and "bad animals". Believe whatever you want to believe.....but you're wrong. And yes, I know quite a bit about the savannah, and many other ecosystems. I'm an ethologist (look it up).
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  8. @winterbreak Yeah, but you said "smell". They can't SMELL weakness at all. That's a fabrication. More Disney-style nonsense in a thread absolutely full of it.
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  9. Absolute nonsense of course. The elephant drove off the hyaenas, but out of its own interests. It had no regard for the lion at all. To claim otherwise is infantile anthropomorphism, and to do it in the title of a video is to simply produce click-bait. For pity sake, grow up, and don't treat your audience like children.
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  10. Mystical? What on earth are you talking about?
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  11. There was no compassion whatever in that engagement. It was an elephant chasing away some hyaenas. If the lion had been on his feet or looking interested, he'd have been chased away as well.
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  12. You need to not only have a little think, but go on an anger management course. Your behaviour is very poor.
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  13.  @mirabellaolson6410  Don't be ridiculous. Hyaenas think every bit as much (or as little) about themselves as lions do. You're anthropomorphising.
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  14. No. The elephant would have chased the lion away if it had perceived it as a threat. It chased the hyaenas away from itself, not from the lion.
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  15.  @Supernumerary  Senses, not sensors. And no, they don't. They have the same senses as us but often far more acute (sensitive). The only possible exception are the pit vipers (and a few others) who have directional heat sensing organs.
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  16.  @williamreed5470  Including you. An amoeba, a tsetse flie and a tape worm are animals. The bot fly is to.
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  17. Many sub-adult male lions are alone. It's standard.
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  18. Oh, there are "good" creatures and "bad" creatures, are there? You really ought to grow up a bit.
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  19.  @angelmartin7310  Righto........god has favourite animals, does she? Does she have favourite colours, too?
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  20. Blood stinks. Just ask any forensic scientist.
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  21. @winterbreak They hurt the truth, not me. I'm an adult. I'd rather live in a world where people are in awe of the natural world for what it actually is, not for what they imagine it is, or what some executive in Hollywood wants you to think it is. Some of the deeply dippy comments in this thread show that people don't have a clue as to how the natural world works. Not a single clue.
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  22. @winterbreak What do I mean by what?
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  23. No, nothing like that at all. Elephants chase all sorts of things away. It chased away the hyaenas for his own sake, and not for the sake of the lion. If the lion had been perceived as a threat, the elephant would have chased him as well.
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  24. It wasn't a favour.
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  25. The elephant didn't chase the hyaenas away from the lion. It chased them away from himself (the elephant). If the lion had been perceived as a threat, it would have chased it away as well.
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  26. Exactly. So many people here view the world as if it were some Disney movie.....
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