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I’m reading the Wikipedia article on elephant cognition and this story about an elephant family really got me. I actually read it years ago but I forgot how poignant it is. It’s a story recounted by Cynthia Moss, an ethologist specializing in elephants:
“Two members of the family were shot by poachers, who were subsequently chased off by the remaining elephants. Although one of the elephants died, the other, named Tina, remained standing, but with knees beginning to give way. Two family members, Trista and Teresia (Tina’s mother), walked to both sides of Tina and leaned in to hold her up. Eventually, Tina grew so weak, she fell to the ground and died. However, Trista and Teresia did not give up but continually tried to lift her. They managed to get Tina into a sitting position, but her body was lifeless and fell to the ground again. As the other elephant family members became more intensely involved in the aid, they tried to put grass into Tina’s mouth. Teresia then put her tusks beneath Tina’s head and front quarters and proceeded to lift her. As she did so, her right tusk broke completely off, right up to the lip and nerve cavity. The elephants gave up trying to lift Tina but did not leave her; instead, they began to bury her in a shallow grave and throw leaves over her body. They stood over Tina for the night and then began to leave in the morning. The last to leave was Teresia.”
The article also explains that elephants are also highly altruistic:
“Elephants are thought to be highly altruistic animals that even aid other species, including humans, in distress. In India, an elephant was helping locals lift logs by following a truck and placing the logs in pre-dug holes upon instruction from the mahout (elephant trainer). At a certain hole, the elephant refused to lower the log. The mahout came to investigate the hold-up and noticed a dog sleeping in the hole. The elephant only lowered the log when the dog was gone. When an elephant is hurt, other elephants (even if they are unrelated) aid them.
Cynthia Moss has often seen elephants going out of their way to avoid hurting or killing a human, even when it was difficult for them (such as having to walk backwards to avoid a person). Joyce Poole documented an encounter told to her by Colin Francombe on Kuki Gallman’s Laikipia Ranch. A ranch herder was out on his own with camels when he came across a family of elephants. The matriarch charged at him and knocked him over with her trunk, breaking one of his legs. In the evening, when he did not return, a search party was sent in a truck to find him. When the party discovered him, he was being guarded by an elephant. The animal charged the truck, so they shot over her and scared her away. The herdsman later told them that when he could not stand up, the elephant used her trunk to lift him under the shade of a tree. She guarded him for the day and would gently touch him with her trunk.”
I just… I love elephants you guys 🥺 The fact that they’re exploited and killed to the point of being endangered breaks my heart.
“ Towards the Sun “ // Solly Levi
Happy elephants
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something very beautiful to me about the way elephants are these enormous unbelievably powerful creatures capable of incredible destruction, and they have a special appendage that specifically allows them to interact gently with the world
Peek-a-boo Pachy
Peek-A-Boo Pachyderm- Ready or not, here I come...
Hide and seek by Staffan Widstrand
An elephant in the African savanna tries to camouflage itself behind a bush that is too small compared to its size, in a humorous attempt to hide from the park visitors’ gaze. When it finally realized it had been discovered, it calmly walked away.
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Day 743 of posting pictures of elephants.
When you're being a grump and your best friend won't leave you alone until you accept a hug.
Source: BBC
Kamal Edwan Hospital's director:
4 children died of malnutrition and dehydration in the past few days in the North of the Strip.
Sahar AlZubda is the latest casualty of malnutrition and dehydration in the North of the Gaza Strip.
There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.
Edit- I added the visualizer for this piece on my YT, check it out here
-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned
@/dr_rajhasn on IG has a tent in Gaza where he provides free medical care to children who are displaced. Here is his gofundme, please donate and spread if you can’t!!
Current aesthetic : Desi women in paintings
Not my art
kya kuch zyada maang liya?
ye "wyd", "netflix and chill", "hookup" culture kya hai yar?
i want a "chai piyogi, mere saath?", "ye khat likha hai tumhare liye -- akele mein padhna", "apna dhyaan rakhiyega", "gulaab -- tumhein pasand hai na?", "chalo, saath mein khana banate hain", "ghazalein sunogi?", "aap chinta na karein, main hoon na" type of love!!!
Markets of Assam by Imdad Barbhuyan
Peak intimacy : Uncontrollable laughter together
Reports from Rafah and Khanyounis are horrific. A correspondent from Al Jazeera was just saying that with israel forcing everyone in Khanyounis to relocate to Rafah, they had also set up a checkpoint at the southern part of Khanyounis where everyone passing through has to give up their belongings (clothes, money, covers) and they would let women and children get through while men get arrested.
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023)
Port workers of India stand with Palestine
"B-but Palestinians can get their freedom with peace not violence 🥺🥺" no. Screw your feelings. The armed resistance against colonizers and murderers is what will give Palestinians their freedom and what will eventually achieve real peace.
An enemy that bombs and uses white phosphorus against civilians doesn't know nor practice what your broken moral compass describes as "peace". Freedom was proven throughout history not to be achieved through kneeling and asking the oppressor to kindly stop. Freedom needs to be taken by force. Your little Utopian way of thinking doesn't work in the real world. Your feelings don't matter because you're not the one living under occupation. Your feelings don't matter because you're not one of the thousands of children who lost their limbs. You're not one of the children who became orphans due to this genocide. You're not the mother who lost her child to the carpet bombing. You're not the father carrying the remains of your child in plastic bags. You're not the newlywed woman who lost her husband. You're not the one at risk of either getting killed any second or losing your loved ones in the blink of an eye!
"Peace" is not really a thing you see during a live ethnic cleansing!
FARHA (2021) dir. Darin J. Sallam
“Almost all Palestinians in the center and to the south are now displaced. And they are seeking refuge elsewhere. And ever since my family was entrusted with this village, all we care about is to keep the land safe as well as people's lives.”
Farha (2021) is a movie about the Palestinian Nakba that’s just been put on Netflix, it’s a portrayal of the violence experienced by Palestinians during Israel’s creation from the perspective of a 14 year old girl - to my knowledge, this is the first film about the story of the Nakba on Netflix. (If you don’t know the history of the Nakba - this post can explain it quickly)
The movie is being received with a lot of praise from Palestinians online, however, the movie is currently being review bombed by zionists and condemned by the Israeli press and there have been threats towards showing of the film by Israel’s finance minister, this is the IMDb review page as of posting this:
If you would like to help support this film and Palestinian history being portrayed, please leave a positive review, and if you have Netflix, watch the film. The story of the Nakba has one that has long been silenced and it’s so rare to see it even acknowledged in media, my family survived it, many others didn’t, what they all experienced was real, and it’s about time there has been recognition of it.
if we get some kind of reunion between these two in btsv i’ll bawl my eyes out