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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

A elephant never forgets, 9/11…

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So manly, his trunk has an 8-pack

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago

Bro's trunk is JACKED

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

Many human families are led by a matriarch whose word is law.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Have you seen an african bull elephant in musth? Fucking terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Additionally, only young, sexually immature bulls live in their family. When they're grown up, they live in bachelor groups led by a dominant male. During musth, they are roaming the savannah individually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

should I have been an elephant instead of just a dude?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

highest overall or highest percentage by body mass. Because one of the highest makes it sound like its a group of the largest mammals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

That's an excellent question, otherwise we'll end up with the whole lone alpha wolf meme nonsense again.

For example, this study talks about 'musth' when male elephants experience increased testosterone - perhaps that's what it's refering to. With a very quick Google search I couldn't find any general ranking of testosterone to body weight in animals.

Male elephants experience a biological phenomenon called “musth”, which is characterized by increased testosterone production, temporal gland secretion and urine dribbling, heightened aggression and sexual behavior, and therefore can pose unique challenges for human safety and animal welfare.

https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=elephant+testosterone+levels+animal+model#d=gs_qabs&t=1751411578610&u=%23p%3D-2jT7oivOEYJ

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

How do you perceive this from:

Male elephants have on of the highest tesstosterone levels of any animal

?

A level is already a relative quantity.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

I mean maybe. Im not really sure what level means. Is it an amount in a particular volume of blood as that would definitely be relative.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago