>>5041285>ew, a fucking echinodermthere does the neighborhood
>>5041301That guy must have been going through some heavy shit to not hear a phant sneaking up on him.
>>5041306>Elephant feet are covered in a soft padding that helps to support their weight, as well as preventing them from slipping and dulling the sound of their footsteps. As a result, elephants can walk almost silently, despite their huge weight. They're quieter than you think
>>5041282
>>5041310
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa-ZIXJdDW4
>>5041310I thought they would be better swimmers than that
>>5041301.hey, you're in my path!
>>5041330Not that bad for an animal that basically never swims in the wild.
>>5041311I really want to pet a cheetah now
>>5041424
>>5041436Based cat
>>5041286It can't even see what it's eating. If you gave it a piece of cardboard soaked in grape juice, would it eat it?
>>5041301Why did they decide to worship dumb cows instead of these smart giants?
>>5041432I look like this and I do this
>>5041311They want to be our pets so badly.
>>5041432life could be a dream
>>5041469You just know...
>>5041469these are the people that call others "toxofag"
>>5041313>cartoon sound effect
>>5041285>>shadman
>>5041285that fish at 12 seconds in like "shit they can do that?"
>>5041450Guy with Indian, Hindu wife here. Indians do not worship cows. Cows are sacred as symbols of motherhood and more valuable in South Asia for the other services they provide, such as milk, which is made in butter and cheese, manure to grow crops and yes, more cows. Reverence for cows is reverence for motherhood and life.That's how it was explained to me. I'm not Indian or Hindu so this ain't really my wheelhouse but if you really want an answer and aren't just shitposting, I can ask the missus for a clearer answer.
>>5041573Except for the part where, yknow, indians DO worship cows. It's a dalits shiva cult thing right? The loss of vedic monotheism was a tragedy.
>>5041308Guess they must be. I assumed he was watching some loud construction or something but maybe they really are just stealthmaxxing megafauna. I do remember that baby phant trying to hide behind a road sign or something.
>>5041573Can you ask her to check my Karma score? Shit posting aside, there's an Indian guy who runs the register at a gas station I frequent, and he's got a little deity with an elephant's head above the mantle of the door as you exit. "Deity" probably isn't the right word though, I remember referring to elephant-man as such and he was quick to correct me and tell me his name (which I forgot) and that if I ever find myself reincarnating I should look for this elephant guy to make my way back to Earth. I don't really have any questions specifically, I guess if cows are symbolic of the reverence of motherhood do elephants have similar lore?
>>5041313HAHAHAHAHA
>>5041573>in South AsiaIt's only in Indian Hinduism. And yes, Indians do consider the cow as a mother. It's called "Gau Maata." But they also worship the cow and what it produces - milk, dung, and urine. The politicians and even scientists there keep talking about how cow urine is a cure-all medicine. They use cow dung as fuel, as a "coolant" on walls in their homes, and even food (see: panchagavya).
>>5041594Thats Ganesha.
>>5041450Elephants wouldn't tolerate pajeets eating their assholes
These are Jimbo and Bimbo and today is their first special alpine grooming appointment
>>5041285It must've sensed an enemy.......get it?
>>5041282aren't these big cats normally drugged during these tourist interactions?
>>5041573shouldn't you be dicking around in the capitol building or whatever it is that vice presidents do instead of posting on 4chan?
>>5041668>its fuckin wimdy out here
>>5041450They do
>>5041681anemosity?
>>5041673jesus that's a big pack
>>5041750>I'm the giant bun that makes of da rules!
>>5041752I thought most animal's eyesight was shit, I don't understand why some disguises have to be so realistic and complicated
>>5041759bird vision is more known for being good
>>5041761I thought only falcons and eagles and shit
>>5041762even if they're not flying as high, insect eaters still need to spot their target from a good distance that can be obscured by foliage
>>5041759Varies greatly depending on the animal. I hear squid have the best eyes in the whole of the animal kingdom.
>>5041769No thats mantis shrimp I think
>>5041769>>5041774we need to define what good vision is firstthe squid eyes are special to humans because the way their photoreceptors are oriented leaves no blind spot like ours do and mantis shrinp see "better" in that they can can receive a wider spectrum of colours than us
>>5041753how does he do it?
>>5041805Gotta be standing on something below the water
>>5041587No.>>5041594Ganesh. His holy day was last week and I went with the missus to the temple. I didn't understand anything about it all and had to eat these diabetes grenades called modak, which are these little dumplings full of coconut gratings and brown sugar. All Indian desserts are grainy-textured and horrifically sweet. I hate them so much.>>5041619Wrong.I had a Thai Buddhist roommate OUAT who didn't eat beef for the same reason. Buddhism is an outshoot of Hinduism and one of the few things I know about Hinduism is that the Buddha is considered one the avatars of Vishnu by Hindus and many view Buddhists as a type of Hindu.
>>5041805>>5041822I don't think the bird is moving at all. It just looks like it's surfing, but the only motion comes from the water that's flowing downstream.
>>504175614 wolves
>>5041750>r/manlytears pets a hamster
>>5041762yep, if you only consider visual acuity & image resolution in daylight the only animals that surpass humans are some birds of prey. Our vision is that good.>>5041769>Varies greatly depending on the animal. I hear squid have the best eyes in the whole of the animal kingdom.cephalopods are all color blind but can perceive polarized light. And cephalopods are good at still seeing in low light conditions but see rather low resolution images compared to humans. And they also have tiny primitive brains that can't perform complex image processing like ours can.The Colossal Squid for example has the largest eyes in the animal kingdom but posses a brain that weighs only 100 grams despite weighing half a ton. The large eyes are probably for detecting Sperm whales in the deep black ocean.>>5041778>mantis shrinp see "better" in that they can can receive a wider spectrum of colours than usMantis shrimp aren't even better at that. Once again they also have atrocious image resolution compared to humans.I remember seeing a simulated vision for Mantis shrimp and it was a blurry mess.Mantis shrimp tried to overcome small brains by developing very complicated eyes instead. But they still come up short." Since IT cortex has millions of color-tuned cells, they can sample the spectrum much more finely than the 12 mantis shrimp photoreceptors, so interval decoding could simultaneously provide much better color identification and discrimination compared to mantis shrimp, resolving the paradox that mantis shrimp have poorer color vision than humans despite having more photoreceptor classes."https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4441025/"Colour blindness test surprisingly reveals that mantis shrimp have poor colour sense.The study from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute, crushes the illusion that complex eyes with more colour channels mean better colour vision."https://news.uq.edu.au/2014-01-24-shrimp-gives-insight-colour-vision
>>5041749I sea what you did there
>>5041805>>5041822>>5041834A meeting of /an/'s brightest minds
>>5041450its due to the ancient indo-european conquest of india>cattle herding pastoralists conquer india>beef eating, milk drinking pastoralists are bigger and stronger than grainmaxxed jeet farmers>jeets connect the cows with the seemingly superhuman powers of the conquerors, assume the cows are magical>jeets try to fuck with the cows, take them, steal milk, that sort of thing>conquerors tell them to leave the cows alone because the cows are the most valuable things the indo-europeans own>this develops into a taboo against harming cows in any wayso you have a group of people that view cows as a source of supernatural power and bunch of religious restrictions surrounding them. let that ferment for a thousand years and you have hinduism's view on cows
>>5041573they dont worship cows but they worship the 20+ gods they believe that exist in the cow's body, so in practice its the same thing. theres a famous webm explaining it
>>5041419>>5041475they were domesticated a long time ago but returned to the wild
>>5041778The bent neck sells this
>>5041525There really shouldn't be so many videos and images of this shit. Dogfags are extremely mentally ill.
>>5042160theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oVW8gcse4g
>>5041831Buddhists are an "offshoot" in the sense that the guy who made it hates Hindus with a passion.Literally every part of Buddhist doctrine is against Hindu practice and shits on it.
>>5041450It is easier to tell a low iq population that cows are magic than it is the explain the long-term consequences and ramifications of eating and mistreating their beasts of burden.
>>5041285everybody gangsta til the pocket pussy starts moving
>>5041285This the shit Gary caught Spongebob watching on TV
>>5041672damn, i'm impressed
>>5042235Do canine have special protection for their brain and skull and stuff against such thrashing around?
>>5041778based good guy guido, going in to help even after realizing he doesnt know how to revive a bird
>>5042317You'd assume they evolved to protect themselves from their primary fighting and hunting motions.Someone posted a chihuahua killing a rat the other day and it's incredible he didn't break his own neck.
>>5042187Except the concepts of dharma, karma, samsara, moksha/nirvana, the trimurthi and so on. The only rejections are of the authority of the Vedas and of individualism (atman v the Buddhist struggle for anatman IE loss of self). Buddhism seeks personal destruction within a Hindu framework.This is something I actually remember from middle school comparative religion class.
>>5041993No one can resist the butt scritches>>5041840They can still falcon punch though, right?
>>5042234"It must have EATEN WORMY"
>>5041877The best men on the case, for sure.
>>5041734Yes
>>5041673So cute!
>>5041301>eww a jeet.>get the fuck out of here >dirt kick
>>5041449>it's a simple question, doctor, if you had a piece of cardboard soaked in grape juice would you eat it?>I would. I'd go back for seconds.
>>5041311Adam's full time occupation in paradise. God gave us those magnificent hands for a reason.
>>5041759bird's eyesight can be better than ours
could you guys post more mp4s instead of webms? I want to share some of this stuff on discord but it seems like you can't play webms when you use discord on mobile, which alot of people do
>>5042552>discord>phoneposting
>>5041469She's cute, I'd like to lick her mouth too.
>>5041313Their entire enclosure is the size of a room in my house, what a pathetic fucking zoo
>>5041525This is the first time I'm hearing the word
>>5041673Indians when all their cousins show up (Timmy is panicking)
>>5041759You, sir, are what we in the business call, a fucking idiot.
>>5042559It's a retard buzzword based on the meme that cat owners get toxoplasmosis and that makes them not hate cats.
>>5042562shut up retard
>>5042593work smart not hard
>>5042383What does it have to do with vision
>>5042593cheeky bastard
>>5042147>Thinking all dog owners do that
>>5042597
>>5042642>fasted paw in the west
>>5042594brutal
>>5041301>[sneaky steps, silent footpads]>PROOOT!! xD>haha just kidding lmao>>seriously tho, be in my way again and I'll fold you up like a newspaper
>>5042593>Bought picrel for my cat a couple years ago>This should be a fun little puzzle>Within 15 minutes, she starts jamming her tongue in the holes on the pegs>Actually manages to get the treats out>Try it again the next day, again showing her how to move the pegs and covers>Nope, she gets them out with her tongue even faster than before>Give up and put the toy in a box>Go back to dumping a few treats in her food bowl like beforeI need to put it up for sale on eBay or something, get some money back.
Wtf, pic didn't post.
>>5042147>look at it>its fucking nothingA little neurotic are wehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysophobiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorderHmmmmmhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6457543/
>>5042317Tiny brains.
>>5042541They are just like us!
>>5042667Not kidding I have no idea how to get the treats, I would just starve.
>>5042642d i s c o m b o b u l a t e
>>5042236Here's a (You) because crabs are neat.
>>5042816imagine a human-sized crab prying your ribcage open
>>5041450Different hindu worship different animals. Some do worship elephants, see ganesha
>>5042636Unless they do it with their eye stems, nothing, I just thought that skill may have been exaggerated like their super vision
>>5042845Sounds like a cool Mortal Kombat finisherI wonder if they've done a crab yet
>>5042816food loot boxes
>>5042816>can't open oyster>gets mad and attacks the goprolol
>>5042552currently converting all my /an/ .mp4s into .webms just to spite you
>>5042650what is that thing
>>5043375Tasmanian devil
>>5043375tasmanian devil
>>5043375Devil (Tasmanian)
>>5043375Devilish (for a Tazmanian)
>>5041594That elephant headed figure IS a deity actually, named Ganesha. From what I remember of Indian mythology, he pissed off his father somehow so he cut his head off, and after his wife got mad at him for it he replaced his son's head with an elephant's head.
>>5043375tasmanian satan
>>5043375i dunno
>>5041589He got off lucky. There was a rash of incidents several years ago of elephants sneaking up on people in the forest and killing them.
>>5043505I read of bit of something like that on wikipedia. Has a crapload of names as well.
>>5041279Nature's retarded. Horse with a horn is not real but bananahead the clawman is?
>>5043519What can an elephant actually do though?
>>5043692I saw a video of an elephant stomping and kicking around a honey badger earlier today
>>5043699If you hug its hind legs it can't reach you with its truck, and its too sluggish to get away while you repeatedly pommel it from behind. If you stand to the side of its hind legs then it won't even be able to hit you with a back kick. If it raises its leg to perform a stomp then all you have to do is back off until it finishes its slam, then move back in to continue punching.
>>5043704they're pretty fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EubfXrc0J0o
>>5041281How's come nodoby ever domesticated these?
>>5043704KEK
>>5043375brown recluse
>>5042990He just wants to play :(
>>5043718Bison have been domesticated, at least to a degree. There are close to 200k of them being raised on private ranches and farms in the US.
>>5042234Blue board.
>>5043704Please, please, please, go to India or Africa and demonstrate your ninja elephant-grappling skills. Have a friend film it from far away so we can see how cool and not dead you are! I look forward to your triumphant post.
>>5042234Every bird is a chicken
>>5043852newfag
>>5043864Oh, it's a pasta? My bad.
>>5043704i too played assassins creed origins
>>5043880But how did the first one get up
>>5043881https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgaOFVuf1q0
>>5041279
>>5043886Absolute fucking goofballs.
>>5043878cleaner than any indian i've seen
>>5043920lmao
>>5043920Honey badger should've gave a shit.
>>5041878This makes a lot of sense.If it wasn't indoeuropeans then the other reasonable hypothesis is that cows were very valuable but low iq jeets would keep eating them instead of raising a herd and milking them so they had to make it taboo to eat them.
>>5043920little shit had it coming
>>5043920>i'm sure to win because my speed is superior
>>5043882weaseled his way up by using the otters as a stepping stone
>>5043928He'd already been fucking the elephant's ass for a little while, and still walked away after having been stomped twice before that kick. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOROsdzD_CF/
>>5041279What an uncanny creature. I thought it was AI for the first seconds
>>5043898>when you were late for work and didn't have time to cook your lunch
>>5041525>>5042147>hmm, there are obsessed schizo anons who hate cats?>I'll become an obsessed schizo anon who hates dogs, that'll show them!and neither of you can exist anywhere outside of this shithole because you'll be bullied out of existencea social dodo
>>5041672I understand how that's a mating dance. I'd get down if an ostrich came at me like that desu
>>5042552webms work fine on discord mobile for me
>>5043868What is it trying to do!?
>>5043968>hmm, there are obsessed schizo anons who hate cats?The funny thing is, there aren'tThere's an obsessed schizo anon who pretends to hate cats and also pretends to be a jew to drive the anti-dog schizo crazyThe rest is just what /an/ actually thinks, which is entirely the natural consequence of retards letting their cats outside and pretending they are hyper-intelligent apex predators
>>5043877He has a lazy eye
