Mythbusters - White Mice and Elephants

an elephant is afraid of a mouse

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[SalamanderTalent]

throw the mouse at it!

[blez88]

I don't think that will prove anything.... If someone throws anything at you... don't you get scared for the moment ? because you don't know what it is ? even if it is a rock.... or something small that would not hurt you... you just wanna get out of the way... reflexes

[Draxis32]

But being noticible or not, why the hell is an Elephant, the biggest mamal walking on earth is afraid of a freaking small white mouse.

That's strange.

And this guy statement right down here, is just ridiculous.

[blez88]

are you afraid of spiders? if you walk in your... room... and you almost step on a black widow... what do you do? step on it? or get back a few steps... and if not kill it/ move it out of the way.... you go around it....just like the elephant did....he probably did not know what it was. if that "thing" could hurt him or not. and he choose to go around it. I think that is the smartest think to...think if it was something that was poisoned? or that could sting him....isn't it better to go around ?

[fromtheforest4413]

This is not becuase the elephant is afraid of the mouse, it's because elephants are very gentle creatures. It knew it would've killed the mouse by stepping on it, so it went around

[fermixx]

i'm taking a mouse in my trip to africa, just in case i'm in the middle of an elephant stampede

[BrunoMelgarejo]

This is what we call Blizzard balancing... =)

[FIiPCreW]

so many comments saying why are the biggest walking animals scared of 1 of the smallest its actually cause elephants cant actually see all the way to the floor right infront of them so they are startled by the noise and back away

[anthonyww713]

what did u expect if the ground moves and a mouse appears would u wanna go near that mouse

[Rubenmon1]

naw, i think the elephant got scared cuz the dung moved all weird in front of it and evntually the mice could've just added to the elephant being freaked at the rolling dung.

[YouGotFranked]

poor mouse, stuck in a giant dung

[SierzantYelonek]

isnt it to close to the wild elephant??? wow... Am saying this just because i want to see some more episodes of MB ...and ... with this guys.

[jvoorII]

Elephants are afraid of white mice? That is so racist...

[xxxk213]

they need to try this mouse trick on the elephants in africa with their calfs standing next to them. elephants get angry when they are next to their babies. maybe they will attack the mouse and not be scared.