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It’s a common saying that elephants never forget. But the more we learn about elephants, the more it appears that their impressive memory is only one aspect of an incredible intelligence that makes them some of the most social, creative, and benevolent creatures on Earth. Alex Gendler takes us into the incredible, unforgettable mind of an elephant.
Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by Avi Ofer.
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Me: cannot remember my friends after summer break
Elephants: hey bud how u doin after 43 years
Yeah i forgot..well my classmates...cause i have no friends..
They don't know what a year is tho. I think
43 years is like yesterday when they saw you again...
yes, kiss of 50 years old brand
“Friends”
I saw a study recently that showed that elephants' brains light up (when looked at during an FMRI) when they see humans, the same way humans' brains light up when we see cute puppies and kittens!! So apparently elephants see us as adorable little creatures and when they see us they think the same "awww" as we do when we see cute little things! So cool!
wut I didn't know that O_o I thought humans were murderers but okay I guess
@@OswaldGaming95 This is for the humans that aren't murderers
I guess yeah
I can't stop thinking about an elephant wanting to pet a human while 10km from there these cute puppies are shooting some other animal for illegal goods.
@@Hyperversum3 then they probably see those people as wolfs, or wild dogs
I have a real story on an elephant.
I live in Kerala , India and here there are lots of elephants.Both wild and domestic. Domestic once mainly used for temple festivals. In a festival with many elephants there a keshavan( male elephant). One crazy man throws a stone on him and man ran away. It's hurt the elephant he taken that stone and kept it with him for many years. Years passed away one day in a festival place elephant saw that man and he give it back to him.
The best revenge for that low life guy.. Good job mr elephant!
r/wholesome
Prove it
@@dr.strange6458 it's true
Is that you, Karl Pilkington? Where would the elephant have stored the stone for YEARS? Did he have a giant backpack?
I feel pity after watching the video. At first I thought it was a pity for such an intelligent and sympathetic animal not able to change the world and live a convenient life as we do. But then I realized I should feel sad for humans, because though we are smart and creative, we don't use our intelligence to make the world better; though we're sympathetic, we don't always have the willingness or courage to stand for the disadvantaged, the voiceless or even people we love. What a pity.
Anything unrelated to elephants is irrelephant.
Cursed comment
JK
Booooo!
haha nice one
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Lmaooo
Wow, I'm tearing up here. Elephants are to good for this world.
*too
just lay beside me... thats an order! and we gonna die together
+Jozef Vladovic gaaaaaaaaaay.
Matthew Coupland :)
JustFatima >:(
It’s the elephant rocking up at the funeral for me 😂
bye
LMAO🤣
Ok I actually burst out laughing when the elephant smelled the herd's butts to recognize them
"poop? Oh, this must be dave!"
Lmao
I can relate to that
Lol
I want an Elephant companion now. Fuck humans lol
where did i imply that humans are bad? I simply commented wanting an elephant as a companion.
You said "fuck humans". Did you not?
what does that imply? it's highly ambiguous as to the meaning behind it. it is simply a statement.
oh ok.
Instead of having an elephant as a pet, I'll rather wish to be an elephant in my next life. Keeping an elephant as a pet is no different from slavery
elephants are so pure.
Khushi
*are less intelligent than humans
Pietro Tettamanti but they’ll remember u
@@pietrotettamanti7239 that's a weird way to spell "more."
Yep yes they are, they kill about 11k poeple a year but yep so pure
@@fadesk6865 they aren't more intelligent than human ;-;
Knowing elephants can suffer from PTSD breaks my heart even more knowing Kaavan lived alone in dire conditions for so long.
Lets protect these magnificent animals and all others. Treat them with kindness.. who would want to live in a world without these beautiful beings? ❤️ 🌍
🤭beautiful beings you 🎸 🤘
This is so true in Kenya where elephants have been known to co-exist with the Maasai people for generations but get agitated in the presence of other people because of previous poaching attack experience 👆🏼
elephants are so underrated honestly
Nah, Krill is underrated, elephants are everywhere in movies and stuff, elephants are sadly *disrespected* but not underrated
@@royscott9162 wrong. A lot of humans are just worse elephants.
They’re perfectly rated. Not too rated, and certainly not underrated.
Do you think they should be needed or buffed?
*BARNEY*
The illustrator clearly deserves a raise mann thats the cutest animation ever😂😍😍
Yes, totally agree!!!
I would die for them
Yes, it was so beautiful and expressive! :) Such a great job.
This is so ironic popping up on my recommended now with that elephant and that funeral lady 😭
youtube doing something…… they’re really recommending this to us after that one incident
It's hard to understand how people could hurt such a magnificent animal.
jose vansco money :((
...any animals.
@@ccdaven81 actually the global warming does which is created by humans...
Elephants can kill and they are also a great price so...
Monay
i wanna hug an elephant.
Gisela Swaragita I wouldn't recommend
Kedi Stars Stephen McCranie, author of Brick by Brick, says you should give it a biiiiiiiiiiiiig bear hug. Since I loved Doodle Alley AND Brick by Brick, I will hug and elephant.
Gisela Swaragita Im an Elephant
ur not an elephant... you are a Trex
I can relate lmao
Did I just get this recommendation after the incident in India where the elephant stomped on this lady’s grave?
Elephants are so amazing. My mom absolutely loves them and has a big shelf in her house dedicated to elephant stuff like figurines and elephants carved from stones, wood, etc. Our family took a trip to Nepal a few years ago and my mom got a chance to ride one and I don't think I've ever seen her that happy. She was laughing the whole time. Even when it got close to the water and took a drink and then shot it out through it's trunk at her face, she had the biggest smile on.
You’re not supposed to ride them. It can actually damage their spine
@@catherinecao4810 horses aswell
If I ever get to be showered by an elephant, I would have a big smile too
Gotta put it in my bucket list now
I'm very sorry to say but if your mom was able to ride an elephant that elephant was almost certainly abused horrifically throughout its life.
You should not ride elephants
After we’re gone, elephants will look after the world.
if they live to see the end of humans..
you say it as if we're looking after the world!
What made you think that we are looking after the world?
Nah the random chimp attack is coming
You know what, im ok with that
"refused to place a log on a hole where a dog was sleeping"
Awwww
Damn these onions!
Stop crying your making the onions cry.
Like why did these humans want to trap this poor dog do they not have feelings
HELP THIS REMINDS OF THE LADY AND THE ELEPHANT
So that why he went back to her funeral
ELEPHANTS MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS
All animals deserve the same treatment
@@chrisp.9385 no, firstable some need more help/treatment, some may not let you treat you the way, so that's really incorrect
The Creator Exactly.
but they taste sooooo gooood
@@FartMansion Wtf you eat elephants?
Someday this is what the Aliens will say about us.
Lol. This really gets you thinking..
+Iris G. ye it does
+Minotaur ayy lmao
+Minotaur
Random alien: Look, they are launching their nuclear bombs, isn't that cute!
Or vice versa
This video pop up on my recommendations for a reason
TH-cam knew what they were doing 😭😭
I am never going to borrow money from an Elephant now.
🤣🤣
*borrow
@@the_picsopedia I don't know the difference.
@@gawagames7877 lend means giving, borrow means taking. Simple. 🙂
Basically, they are opposites.
@@the_picsopedia Oh ok thanks.
boyfriend: i didn't cheat on you, Ellie!
elephant: you sure? Because I remember seeing you eyeing another elephant two years ago on Monday of January 23rd 2017 on 2:45 pm when we were going to breathe in a cafe in Manchester-
Lmao
😂
I guess my ex is an elephant 😂
hold up
😂😂😂
this didnt age well w that elephant destroying that woman’s funeral 😭😭
I mean apparently she attacked the elephant. So.. it aged well. It remembered her and wanted revenge.
i was looking for this comment 😭
Here for this
Not sure what event you're referring to, but one elephant is one elephant the same way one human is one human. Just because one of them did something 'bad' doesn't mean they represent the whole species. Plus someone said that the elephant was taking revenge, so if that's the case this just demonstrates how the video got ot right.
Coming back to this video because I need to know what that lady did to make the elephant trample her at her funeral
Same lol
Does anyone else want to befriend an elephant now? XD
+hystericaldominolego
lol i was watching the video and i was like ima gonna get an elephant pet someday. then i looked at comments. XD
it's a honor to be (their) friend
it's just because i type quickly, but thank you any way
+hystericaldominolego So bad. Majestic creatures
+hystericaldominolego Yes.
Humans never forget:
1. Who broke their heart.
2. Who owe them money.
3. Boys never forget their bois
4. Their ex
5. Their pets
You broke?
@@TheMessiahOfThe99Percent me?
@@kaizen_stoic i think he meant Malhuth X
@@kaizen_stoic i forgot my ex
Aww the two elephants recognizing each other after the circus is so sweet.
youtube knew what they were doing bruh ☠️
ong dawg that elephant went back for revenge
Ong🤣🤣
Now I want to have an Elephant friend :(
It can’t be possible😞
@MatZ 👍👍😊😊
I hear they're better than human friends
I have one in my neighbour in india..it was always sleeping or playing..
why do you think only about having ?
I was today years old when I learned that Elephants can have PTSD... This is the saddest thing I've ever heard
Forgive me for asking ... but HOW do scientists know this?
I instantly thought Dumbo
@@watchtellyinuk well it’s not like they can see a elephant having ptsd but they can know from looking at a elephants and humans brains
A pregnant wild elephant was killed in southern India when she was thought to have eaten a pineapple planted with a firecracker that exploded ...
@@kev5924 i could have avoided nightmares if i didn't know that
Not this being recommended after the elephant lady incident
Very informative video. MOSTLY accurate, except the part that says (Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead) many other animals mourn their dead
Elephants are too perfect to live in this world yet we destroyed them for our own purpose.
" That's what he said. "
fuck condescendence and patronized dummies
Lance Barreto sure thing.
+Lance Baretto that's why we destroy them, they're too perfect to live in this world
Alif Kazeryu so we destroy something cooler than us, i see the problem here
And that's why they suffer from crippling depression.
We should give them access to r/me_irl and r/2meirl4meirl
. . .
Tofu Kingpin iii
Lemon what is that
its because of poaching.
Why is this recommended to me after the incident in India recently. 😂
Fr TH-cam trynna be funny😂😂😂
My grandma loved elephants alot, I never really got why though. After watching this I can say I love them alot too. I want to have an elephant friend lol
Ill be your friend I weigh a lot
Fun fact time: Elephants have a specific call that means "Humans!"
It's a warning of imminent danger.
because of anger, would you like it if someone killed your family, stole there skeletons and walked off?
+KillRoy Washere you are the one who fucked up, dumb human
TheBlueSquid figures
TheBlueSquid Prairie dogs also have that
Wow so deep, have a cookie.
Humans should understand they are not the only Masterpiece Nature has Created and respect all life forms.
Nityanand Saswade Well said 👍👍.
Humans are not a masterpiece nature has created
We’re greed and death with thumbs
(I’m joking, there are a lot of really good people out there, though I do think that I accurately describe some)
Humans a masterpiece ha ha ha
Uh oh, vegan alert
we aren't the only masterpiece, beauty exists in all life forms
I almost lived with temple Elephants.Whenever I go to temple procession,some elephant comes to me & caress my head.They remember our affection.
This popped up at my recommendations after that elephant killed a old lady then returns to trample her corpse at the funeral😭
Can we just take a moment and appreciate this amazingly cute animation
No
Lenin Singh dammmmn
Copied
th-cam.com/video/QQ0__WKpf2s/w-d-xo.html
Nah I am fine
So if you abuse an elephant... they wont forgive you....
*DO NOT ABUSE*
Let me assure you that my decision to not abuse an animal has very little to do with it's ability to hold grudge.
+Quinn Vanderbilt How's that "abuse"?
I mean the Elephant is dead, and then non existent things cannot choose anything in this case forgive.
@Alka Oraon Entertainment or Money
th-cam.com/video/_K36Zu0pA4U/w-d-xo.html
Who else here from the elephant that killed women then came back
Elephants have huge heads.
Therefore their brains are huge.
And that’s why elephants never forget.
That was a good poem!
:_:
Fox?
And yours is obviously small 🤓
Nothing makes me sadder than to know that elephants can have ptsd
They're so pure 😭 i cried several times while watching this
@@min_shan138 yeah "it's all in your hEAd"
@@clararose7934 and even after all that torture and human greed they still try to befriend us. they are very forgiving and can clearly see not all humans are bad.
Lots of animals can experience PTSD not just elephants that's why it is important to treat them with love too
and humans are quite responsible for a lot of their PTSDs..
Lol same!!!!!
Fun Fact: Elephants are the only animals that think we humans are cute.
xxP1ST0LER0xx ，don’t forget dolphins and whales
xxP1ST0LER0xx actually that’s false
Those animals at schools who bully other kids don't think humans are cute. Heartening to know elephants do
xxP1ST0LER0xx ouch
Dude....imagine being the pet of an elephant. New life goal
Since childhood I have had a phobia of elephants.. Watching this made my heart melt. I now cherish these beautiful beings
they're so genuine.
All I learned is elephants are pretty cool.
All? Is that really the word you're looking for?
Milind Tripathi Look above mate. Something might be there.
This ain't just useless trivia. Just saying.
Milind Tripathi Your just saying shit everybody already knew. The thing you didn't know about was the joke.
Poorly constructed joke, tbh. Well, I am laughing now.
And some people kill them to make money. :/ What a stupid world.
or for sport and their ego...
Humans are disguisting creatures.
But when you think about it insects get killed the most out of any animal species
But they easily mass reproduce.
just remember it's some humans not everyone
Who's here after learning an elephant trampled a 70 year old lady in India, and then came back to attack her at her funeral?
TH-cam recommended me after i read the news in twitter. It went viral in Thai twitter lol
What
I love elephants. They are such beautiful and smart creatures.
Elephants are sadly disrespected 😔🐘💙
“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.” ~John Donne
thank you for the quote
Also cow, you see they will give you milk and treat you like their child. Thats why we Hindus call her 2nd Mother.
senses shut up and go shut on the streets.
@Earl Gray Your TDS pushed you to lie and deceive didn't it Mr. Gray?
You posted a PuffPiece from 2017 w/o mentioning that Pres. Trump didn't support the reversal & in fact spoke out strongly against elephant poaching. But you couldn't be bothered to mention any of that in your hate screed against the family instead misleading people on here. Now it's going to be up to each country on a case by case basis.
Pres. Trump even called it a horror show even though his sons are in fact hunters who did not break any laws. You also left out the fact that the Obama administration did not follow proper procedures in issuing the ban.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/reversal-trump-administration-won-t-ban-import-african-elephant-trophies-n854121 Oy Vey in deed Mr. Gray.
@@zacharyfelder6604 try learning about it..... Instead of showing ignorance
So...how much longer until Elephants create their own nation and join the UN?
A couple thousand or million years
Idk quiet a long time tho
on its way
Yay! Elephentia nation would join us. 😆
Well, it took us humans around 12000 years...
I now feel like having elephant as a pet friend.. . Too cute..
No...after watching all this and you still care about you...not the animals?...
1st u can feed them . They eat a lot and they like living in herds, captive ones are always in stress live less years.
You want to imprison an elephant?
Takes elephants food*
Elephant: *I will remember this*
Imagine living almost your whole life in a circus/tourist attractions and you can remember everything :((( the elephant's trauma will be with him forever
Or her
Deep
@@yali2926 I think that, by definition, keeping animals trapped in a circus and forcing them to perform for the entertainment of others means treating them poorly. How much abuse you apply on top of that could lead to varying degrees of mistreatment, but the animals are being mistreated just by virtue of being kept in the situation that they’re in as a bare minimum.
@@yali2926 I highly doubt it.
@@yali2926 animals are also used to having complete freedom, until people take it from them.
I think I've found my new favorite animal. ❤️🐘
dasilverwelshman 👍👍 SAME
Same here
Me too❤️😄
That's exactly what I thought ❤️
What was the last favourite
The words which are used in this video are complex and it's not easy to understand for an English learner like me. I gather that my English is not good so I'll say the thing I thought without 100% grammar correctly, please give me sympathy. I'm an animal person, I really love animals including elephants. My country has a song which is composed about elephants. When I was a little kid, I always cried when my mother turn on that song because they are so piteous. This video gives me a chance to recondition my childhood, I experience a pang of nostalgia when I recall my childhood time. Thanks for the helping vocabulary.
Who’s here after the elephant stomped on someone and then again at their funeral
Me 😭
😅😅
Me lmaoo
Once at a fair my mom saw a female elephant (she loves elephants) and she was clearly thirsty. She spent her entire day going back and forth between the elephant and a water point with a bucket to give water to the elephant. Three years later she saw her again, her owner has changed (she was way better treated... even if she sould be in nature) and when she saw my mom she litteraly petted her whith her trunk... The owner told my mom "Ha, you've been nice to her in the past"
These animals are so wonderful...
The new trainer treating the 🐘 much better than the previous one also knows that fact!
I want elephants to gain the ability to talk, so I can have a conversation with them.
+Kacie Anderson
You mean like your therapist?
+Flynn Parish I would love an elephant therapist
+Kacie Anderson or maybe we should learn their language design a computer program to read and study the infrasound they use and body language
your not funny justa crlon
Klaym8
i couldn t help myself
this had aged really well 💀💀💀
I don't understand.
?
The fact that we still keep them in some ZOOs should be a crime
It shouldn't be a crime as long as they have a huge space it's not easy to introduce a captive animal into the wild especially if it was born in captivity.
@@adamoliveras9947 this misconception gone too much
"one two three four five...five"
takes away three
"one two WHHAAAAATTT???!!!"
"these elephants are more than just giant walking hard drive"
What a bizzare statement.
Not really
We must examine elephants' brains to invent 512 terrabyte usb s
These elephants are more than just quradapedal flesh bags
@@erdemgunduz3527 what you will copy in this flash drive?
@@MohsinExperiments Every data I've produced would just get a fraction of that hard drive.I'd put holiday photos, beyblade matches, my lego designs and my minecraft worlds. Actually, we better use them in space stuff . Lightness and high capacity would come with a huge price tag so I'wouldn't buy it unless I needed it.
Thank you Alex and the team for producing this video!! ❤
The art in this is freaking adorable
Does this mean that circus elephants get mega PTSD?
Yes. Many rescued circus elephants showed depressive behavior. They would isolate themselves and show lack of interest in anything. They have to be rehabilitated by slowly introducing them to other elephants.
@@anonuser365 they could probably run into a wall or drown themselves if they wanted to
@@anonuser365 They are smart. There are many ways to do that
I seen something about "zoochosis", pretty much a mental illness they develop from captivity
but that's for a lot of animals
Elephants have always been my favourite animal so this video made me very happy... at first, then it made me extremely sad :(
Soooo trueeee
I remember doing a research project on elephants and Flamingos in elementary school. Me and my mom went all out on those posters and we learned a lot about both species. I grew to love both Flamingos and Elephants by the time we were done. I also liked Horton hears a Who, so there's that.
They do that on purpose make you sad these people are satanic believe me they exploit these animals and I love them so much
This was so beautiful and awesome... And then that last part was so heartbreaking...
I am also because of...RIP to that lady.
I need an elephant in my life
unicorns, ROBLOX and such can bem true ..It is because habits ABS culture more than other things. o grow up playing with my sister and they teach me a lot just with the friendship. most mans have to know their feminine side to understand grila,but the inportant ia really about be Nice conpreensive and dont give "food-attetion" to bad behaviors If they dont r friendly. some guys hás more womans Brain than mana Brain and somegrils hás more mana Brain than wonens Brain. the real difference begins on 12 years to 18 yaear old..before that almost lotes about culture and bahavior. people have to bem reapectfull And ser yourself in the other! That is some If the best things in human relashionships
They’re like the gentle giant version of us
Or we're the cruel and violent version of them.
@@ricktyman4709 exactly
@@ricktyman4709 I find it no coincidence that every single animal video includes a comment like this
Yeah its true
No they're not. Humans are awful.
Got to appreciate good art, brilliant animation by Avi.
They are so kind that fill pureness in your heart ❤❤
This brougt tears to my eyes and i dont know why
I also had tears in my eyes by the end but I know why, it's because of all the suffering we cause and the horrible things we humans do to these amazing creatures. And they don't forget the pain.
it s ok
you ll get by
the worst is...
when you don t feel the pain anymore
same 😭😂 why
Beautiful sentence :)
Yeah same over here :'(
i literally cried omg, elephants don't deserve this at all! i love them so much 😭
We also love you so much.
mohlodi tshimollo no we don’t speak for yourself you can’t love someone you don’t know
i also cried!!!
Omg I love elephants. I can’t believe people would want to hurt these beautiful creatures. Please don’t let them go extinct
I was so shocked and grateful at the same time when i saw Persian subtitle, thanks to whoever did that thanks a lot.
I love it when different TED-ed videos counter each other in what they say.
The dolphin one said dolphins mourn their dead too.
+Julia Binarystar Yes this is only the second video I've seen, watched the dolphin one first and thought that to myself, contradictions lmao
+Julia Binarystar The scripts for their videos are written by different people, but spoken by the same actors, so sometimes an elephant specialist and dolphin specialist might contradict each other.
This video was probably older then.
+Julia Binarystar in its okey to be smart they made a video of the subject
apes and gorillas men the dead too. Alot of animals do, dogs, other primates.. And just because animals don't show it the way we do, doesn't mean they don't feel sadness.
Imagine if we never forget. Damn my dark childhood memories
and the embarrassing moments😂😂
I used to get penetrated feet deep by my step brother
For real 😣
What if we remembered everything? Even when we were in the womb?
@@jakefromstatefarm7363 tff??
Elephants are unlike us, they never "forgor 💀"
This is so beautiful and sad at the same time
Rest of the ecosystem: *lives happily*
Humans: hol’ up hol’ up hol’ up
Hahaahhahahahahaha🤣😂🤣😂 hol op hol p
Yeah "happily"
That’s not true stop giving us fake news you silly boy how dare you that’s really annoying you should be ashamed I’m disappointed in you stop feeding other people fake news that’s really bad and illegal do you want to get caught by the police because if so we’ll done because I’m reporting you to them honestly shame on you. 😡🤬
We are part of the ecosystem.
@@henreereeman8529 it’s not fake news it’s real just like climate change.
The username 'hattie' at 0:06 translates to elephant in Nepali and Hindi.
Robinhood Junior
Also in Urdu
Irrelevant
@@luiginocharles9990 your comment is irrelevant.
Didn't notice that until you said it lol. A better spelling would probably be hathi
And the password is password
The fact that elephants seek revenge is scary, imagine having to 1v1 a literal tank.
They are majestic, loving, and incredible animal.. ❤❤❤❤ it's heartbreaking to watch ppl hurted them
That's why elephants are my favourite. They have emotions, they have selfless love for each other, and for other creatures, too!
th-cam.com/video/RbbAuPkFDQg/w-d-xo.html👈🤣
Elephants are my favorite animals too 🙂
@@karthickrajassec4509 Now kiss each other then
😂😂
@@vallburetti7824 what are you laughing at ball vutetti
I absolutely adore the animation in this!
But, did you grasp this video’s theme?
This is the cutest and most informative video in elephants I've seen 🥺🥺🥺
This made me SO emotional.