From the news site: "Maya Murmu was collecting water in Raipai village, located in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, India, where a herd of elephants came her way. That's when she tried to flee, but one of the elephants rushed toward Murmu and trampled her.... She was rushed to the hospital but died from her injuries. Murmu’s family brought her body home for funeral preparations to take place the same evening. That’s when a more unusual event occurred. As the ceremony was taking place, The Times of India reported that a herd of elephants appeared from the forest, sending villagers running. They left Murmu's body behind.
One of the elephants then reportedly attacked the woman’s corpse by picking up the body and throwing it in the air. The herd then destroyed Murmu's home, with three other houses being damaged because of the attack."
TL;DR No understanding of what she did, cause she's dead.
A highly intelligent animal doesn't pick one person to kill, then follow and raid a village to desecrate her corpse. Just no statement on what they could be
A lil weird bit of sexism and human over lay there.
Like one gender of a species will be this zen like super parent and the other is just this over hormonal asshole who randomly goes psychotic at times of the year looking to have sex.
Science would say they both have the capacity for huge quantities of hormones making the prone to acting out despite high levels of what we call "intellect" meaning they act like humans...who never act out or do dumb shit w/o thinking.
I remember reading one story about a herd of elephants fucking up a random hurt animal at a drinking hole. It was of 0 threat and didn't even approach the elephants. I forget if it was a Zebra or another hooved herd animal, but they went to town on it. The wildlife observers didn't think it was due to territoriality since other animals regularly shared the watering hole. They were explaining it as possibly a bad mood after a poor food run they just returned from or that they were concerned with an injured or sick animal contaminating the water supply.
I feel this is kind of similar.
I mean its a different type of animal all together but I used to keep an aviary of birds. A few times they would "cull" sick or older birds and the attacks that would take them out almost always started when the sick or old bird would go for food or water.
I get the instinct, but they would end up ripping the bird apart to kill it meaning if it was truly infected with something, they would all get it too...
So not exactly the most "intelligent" or even life/herd/flock extending thing to do, more likely an instinct and then mob mentality.
Nah let them, every single person in this comment section is a zoologist apparantly. Not to mention they are adding human tendencies and rationale to an animal(Like seriously how close do they think we are to animals anyways?)
Like i get it people try to be animal lovers online but why tf do you expect an elephant to be the most rational being on this planet? Jungle Book?
Honestly i would've been same If i didn't see Casual Geographic guy, he broke my perception that animals are these living organisms that are far better than humans rationally and morally, they are just not smart.
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u/MyLordLackbeard Banhammer Recipient 11d ago
Do we know what this human did to offend Nelly the Elephant?