>no predators
>snakes can’t hurt it
>undrownable
>unlimited food supply
Besides Man, who has only evolved in the last 100k or so years, what has kept Elephant from sweeping across the earth and making it his domain?
>no predators >snakes can’t hurt it >undrownable >unlimited food supply Besides Man, who has only evolved in the last 100k or so years, what has kep...
mammoths once roamed asia and north america
but anyway to answer your question: food; they need more than grass to survive
It's a big ass animal, it take 100s of lbs of food a day to live. Also woolly mammoths did actually once dominate the entire planet across Asia, along with the elephants in Africa. Mammoths were only wiped out by humans, which is the main story with most animal extinction which have happened across the past 20k years.
>it take 100s of lbs of food a day to live.
Worth it though. I would take 1 elephant over 1000 homosexual little mice.
elephants are scared of mice tho
debunked by snopes
even though I like mice and want them to be strong
I know, I was just messing around, this board isn't really good for anything else than that either way
rebunked by mythbusters. its true
Also, snoopes:
>If there’s any truth to this legend at all, it likely comes from elephants’ being anxious about nearby sounds or movement they can’t identify, such as that caused by mice darting around underfoot.
So they're scared of mice then
It's interesting to see how once Snopes became a politically partisan organization, it became unable to post about anything, even non-political topics, without engaging in spin. It has become ingrained into their thought process.
holy shit snopes unironically debunked this
i thought they only did orange man bad-true
interesting
They were wiped out by a flood.
You forgot
>liked by God
>liked by Terry Davis
Elephants are literally the modern descendants of dinosaurs. They're huge, they're grey, they have armored skin. I think from an evolutionary point of view elephants, hippos and rhinos are more closely related to triceratops or brachiosaurus than to monkeys.
same niche as the big veggie dinos, yeah
everything is. didnt just start over
don't they only eat peanuts?
We also like craft beers, especially if they're hoppy.
An elephant typed this with his filthy trunk.
You probably also believe in skin-walkers recruiting online when skin-walkers don't even exist, much less have the ability to post online.
the only rival of humans on earth are dogs, cats and ants and we have two of them under our thumb
High maintenance. Can't thrive in every possible environment.
>gigantic sized
>hervibores
>like semi arid/savanna/riparians ecosystems
>possibly lives in glorious herds
Based sauropods
did the neck evolve into a trunk, and the head move down, or did the head evolve a trunk, and the neck shrunk
boafe
Geography and seas, no proboscideans in Straya and South America (before the formation of panama isthmus).
It's too big
>>no predators
*pic related enters*
>pic relatedggers
>*Walks you down*
How the frick do you beat this homosexual species?
wait for it to kill itself.
*Technology researched*
Thank god for white man or they would be in the stone age
Only the new world didn't reach Iron.
Interesting that the Sentinelese have entered the Iron Age due to shipwrecks near their island.
Piracy not salvage
>Ukraine background
Did he know?
And despite that we were still able to kill it
The fact that many predators will eat several mice a day is very hot to me due to my vore fetish.
Imagine a fox-woman who has eaten thousands upon thousands of young mouse-boys in her lifetime, and then realize that holds for every fox-person in that world. Millions of vored mouse-boys turned into boob fat.
You need psychiatric help
kek. saving this
>besides man
but it is because of man. before that, elephants were everywhere
Ummmmm they move around too much. Relying on old paths and migration to follow the food they need. so if something disrupts that travel ( flood, quake , fire) not just one or 2 elephants are in danger the entire heard is in jeopardy. Also there is the strange thing that elephants and hippos do that when a prominent member of the heard dies they almost mourne the death - and in general are strange in the dealings of death and heard politics..
>no predators
You forgot humans
We nearly hunted them to extinction
No but seriously OP has a point. What were their predators, sabre tooths? Teeth would’ve been big enough to puncture their hides, or am I getting it wrong and it’s just a blue whale scenario where they managed to outmass everything in their environment?
logic would say that the Saber had easier prey to hunt at the same time.
Even if a wolf could kill me they know even with their little wolf brain that my arms and legs are going to need to be dealt with. and even if the kill is successful I could potentially gouge its eye out, or break its leg. which would equal a slow and eventual death
It's a mouse, the one thing all elephants must fear, least they wish to be eaten alive.
The reality is the elephant is scared of the mighty goose. Waterfowl are the ultimate lifeforms, If you could be any animal and you don't pick duck/goose/swan you are just dumb.
Ok but I pick stork.
Tf do ducks even eat? Storks obviously predate on the big fish, and with a beak like that nobody ought frick with you, all goose bluster aside.
Storks and herons and the like cant swim well though, they must stay on the edge or in shallows. Ducks can swim to the middle, some can even dive well. Some diving ducks even chase fish down there and snack on em. Also longer take off times mean the predators will snatch you before you can really get going. Anseriformes are perfection, masters of land air and sea.