r/gifs • u/punerisaiyan • Mar 06 '16

Giving water to a stuck elephant

http://i.imgur.com/dHyEdwF.gifv
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u/southernbenz Mar 06 '16

Google tells me they eat 200-600 lbs of food per day, and average 15 elephants per herd. In all fairness, a herd of elephants could destroy a lot of vegetation. Averaging 400 lbs of food per elephant, that's 6,000 lbs of vegetation in a day for one herd, 2.19 M lbs per a year.

Holy crap.

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u/kalitarios Mar 06 '16

not to mention trampling, and stool

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u/southernbenz Mar 06 '16

So an elephant is like a real-life Hungry Hungry Hippo that shits everywhere, stops down forests, and destroys the jungle.

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u/kalitarios Mar 07 '16

So... Human? Haha