BBC: Jungle - Elephants in the Congo, the rumble in the jungle!

[longlivecrow]

makes me clench my butt cheeks.

[maribethdougherty]

this is such a gift of new knowledge!

[jeppepeppepop]

I think it is the cyclotis. The scientific name is wrong, it is not seen as a subspecies anymore but a species on its own. As you can see these elephants are substantially shorter than the ones you can see on the savannah. I suspect all of the forest(jungle...) dwelling elephants are the cyclotis and that the larger species do not venture into the dense jungles.

[jeppepeppepop]

Btw these are most likely the elephants found in north africa during the punic and later roman era. They are not taller than about 2.5m at the shoulder. Hannibal probably used these as well as the larger indian and/or african elephants as was supplied by the ptolemids. They were thought to be extinct...

[Piscesamethyst]

Are these elephants from "Nouabale Ndoki National Park?" Or even from northern Congo? More specifically, are they "Loxodonta africana cyclotis." Please someone provide an answer soon.

[1966BOBBY]

The f****rs can drive though!! Check out World's Greatest Aardvark car-chases on Sky 3!!!

[Mairinohailche]

wonderful...thanks for the link Rabbit.

[1966BOBBY]

Rabbitvoz I was once car-jacked by a bunch of Aardvarks. Nasty, vicious bastards they were.  - the irony was they filmed it on their cell-phones and posted it on youtube. Bastard aardvarks.

[nameofthepen]

Rabbitvoz!! "...second best creature on earth next to Whales"???? I will not tell your rabbit that you lost your head and blurted out such a thing!

[nameofthepen]

Elephants, dolphins, birds and cats are on my "A-list". So color me happy to have found this little gem! :)

:-)

Nom

[KARStarla]

Thanks Nom :) great vid! I love elephants too ;)

[ancestralblue]

Makes us seem to have a sensory deprivation, doesn't it? Thanks Nom, really interesting how the soundwaves could be registered and measured.

[nameofthepen]

Cindy - "Makes us seem to have a sensory deprivation" is a great observation!

I know my cats are like, "WTF?" when I stub my toe in the dark. My dogs are like, "Don't bark??? Wazza matter wif' U? Can't U *hear* dat?" And my horses are like, "You obviously don't know that mailboxes which look like black-and-white cows could fatally ambush unsuspecting horses and riders!!"

Erm...well, maybe not that last one so much. :D

[ancestralblue]

Yeah Nom, gotcha' on that one. We have an alert system here that goes like this.

The horses are the first alert, the dogs see the horses at alert and then they go off to investigate. It's usually when I see the full pattern emerging that I stop what I'm doing and look to see what's up. It's usually only the deer moving through the woods, but, occasionally it can be a more interesting surprise, but, they always know first.

[nameofthepen]

Cindy, that's a pretty high-quality perimeter alert system from a bunch of minimum-wage guys. ;-)

[ancestralblue]

Yeah, and more reliable and discerning that an electronic system. ATP got nothin" on them.

[Abbie2020]

Quite a dramatic animation of how sound travels!

[rakshamg]

I'm very fond of elephants. Thanks for video.

[g0o06]

amazing

[elephantbluepeter383]

This is absolutely fantastic!