How Big Do African Elephants Get?
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2024
- Let's take a look at how big an African Elephant can get?
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Satao:
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Giant of Angola:
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Isilo:
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Jumbo:
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jvc.oup.com/2021/04/08/jumbo-...
Tuskless Elephants:
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Jumbo Documentary:
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Loxodonta Atlantica:
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What were the tusk weights of the Angola elephant?
Apparently tuskless males do rarely exist, known as Buda's in the early hunting days by some. They were supposed to be larger than normal, the suggestion being the energy growing tusks was diverted to body size. And to be more bad tempered. They had a ball of ivory where the tusk roots lie in the skull. And somewhere in one of those balls of Ivory, one might find the fabled Elephant Stone the legend went.
I clicked onthe video for big elephants now Im sad about Jumbo...
Sad about Jumbo, Satao and Henry 😭
See that's why I clicked it and as soon as I saw it I skipped it and read the comments
Henrey wasn’t just the shaq of elephant but hearing the mf was 11 tons that’s make him mammoth sized, an absolute behemoth, would’ve been an honor to see him walk the earth
More aptly Colombian mammoth sized African elephant.
@@jointcerulean3350 yeah bigger than their wooly counterparts it’s super cool to see these African behemoths reach the size of their columbian mammoth relatives
@@Guys_its_me_Chris Indeed, pretty awesome, wonder how many of those giants are in the wild? also it’s pretty cool Africa has two distinct elephant species, the African forest elephant looks like Palaeoloxodon, especially with the tusks.
He even would have been larger most non-sauropod dinosaurs.
@@jointcerulean3350 mini paleoloxodon’s running in the forests of Africa is a cute thought
And please don't buy ivory objects, no matter how old you are told they are. 😔
Very interesting video. I'd already seen Sir David's documentary and it literally broke my heart. Thank you for your hard work,
There are some conservationists who dye the tusks of elephants with natural dyes to make the ivory worthless. It is something that needs to be more widespread.
The treatment of the elephants mentioned really made me sad. Thank you for a great video as usual!
As always a banger video on the Wild World channel
Thanks!
I was not prepared for henry
Knowing human’s greed and stupidity you should.
Truely tragic stories for those big elephants. The biggest of any species always get looked at as some next big status symbol if someone kills them. Never understood the appeal, but i do hope we can help save these animals, as well as many others. Always a treat to see your videos pal.
The appeal probably exists in saying you defeated something absolutely humongous in size, although I think that status has been washed down over the years from impressive to nothing.
I know someone who said that when they were younger they always wanted to hunt the Big Five of Africa, however they later realized that its not really all its cracked up to be.
Like I said to them, back in the years of black powder rifles that took anywhere from 20 seconds to a minute to reload it'd be an impressive feat, however modern firearms are far more advanced and you can easily kill stuff from far away with them and have way better accuracy.
@@CalvinTheCarnotaurusNah using guns is whack. Using spears to take down this behemoth is a real feat reserved for real men.
@@KhanMann66 Lol. Nah man. Real men are strong enough to use their bare hands to show an animal who the real alpha is.
In saying that for laughs, I think someone actually killed a leopard with their hands. The animal lunged and he threw his arm up for protection, and it went straight down the cat's throat. His arm got lodged in its throat and the leopard died from suffocation.
Thank you for another great video, really made my day. Poor Jumbo though, I suppose our viewpoint of elephants and how to treat them has only really changed in the last 20 years
"in the last 45 years" would be more accurate.
I am so excited for this
Excellent video. 11 tons! I didn't realise that was possible!
Came to learn about African elephants
Left pissed and ready to fight someone
😂
Pfft, yeah, just angry and disgusted at the behavior, greed, and level of disrespect some people have.
If you need another video idea, maybe you’d like to do a video on what the largest reliably measured hippopotamus is. Some claim the largest was over 9,000 lbs but I have some personal doubts/speculation of the context behind that. Might be another interesting one for you to tackle considering I think you do a fantastic job with these kind of videos!
As always great video mate. 👍
new video from one of my favorite channels
Another fascinating presentation 👏 👍
thank you for this!
One of the biggest African elephants ever is today in Bulawayo museum in Zimbabwe
Those who know, know
Already hyped
Wow! You've been uploading a lot recently! I'm still trying to keep up haha
Personally. I think ivory looks best on a living elephant 🐘
They'll say "Awwww Topsy" at my Autopsy!
This might sound incredibly cruel but if you’re willing to kill an endangered animal in order to lift yourself out of poverty, then perhaps suicide would be a more humane way to escape your poverty.
I’m from the town Jumbo died in we have a statue of him
absolute gold
I'm sorry jumbo. 😢 you deserved to be free!!
I get more information in your 10 min videos than I do from hour long ones from other creators. You have a passion and a gift.
I’m sorry wild world, but I just don’t get it. How is it possible that you are making impressively informing and very well put together videos and you somehow don’t have at least 1 million subs. You really deserve a million, your videos are great. Hey, keep it up and soon very soon, I promise, you will have a huge channel.
Edit: on a side note, I will watch one of your longer videos, then proceed to think about it for the next week. Your videos are amazing, simply just really impressive. But how do you make a video 10 minutes long yet are able to teach us so much. How?
Honestly I completely agree.
UA-cam hates these channels. Not enough clickbait misinformation like the fake science channels.
Could make a video on How Large can Longfin Eels get? They live in NZ and Papua Guinea
Henry the legend!
right on
I clicked on the video for big elephants but these adverts piss me off arghh
Dang, so the record for the largest African bush elephant was a full ton heavier than has been claimed! 😮
The fact that people "hunt" for "sport" disgust me.
Men have wreaked havoc on nature 😢 😢 how incredible it would've been to have Henry live to the end of his days and pass on his genes for much longer than he did
Also there’s interesting there are pigmy African forest elephants from the Congo.
Also it’s cool there are two distinct elephant species.
This whole video broke my heart. Yes I’m sitting here crying. Some people are disgusting, selfish, disrespectful and have no morals, values or compassion for God’s most magnificent, majestic creatures.
Big.
Grate! PLS do moose and bears
Yeah stories like jumbo and tilikum the killer whale, kindly to me being really on the fence about captivity overall. Which is sad because zoos can do amazing work in breeding as well as studying animals however it almost makes me wonder if that good is worth it considering the damage that is done in the past two animals like jumbo
The problem is all regulation centric. An animal like an elephant or orca should never be alone in an enclosure, rather a reserve, while other animals can get by so long as they have proper enrichment. But no wild animal should be captive to begin with unless necessary for their health or the species survival.
Epic! Also interestingly there is a photo of a skull of an African elephant with four tusks.
Also whoa! African elephants are awesome, 11 tons that’s Colombian mammoth sized.
Also wonder how large Chinese allligators got in historical times? Also dwarf crocodile species in certain countries seem to have sizes larger than reported in the species it would seem, there are three distinct species currently known. Also interestingly there is a photo of a 19 foot west African crocodile crocodylus suchus from Gambia.
There are apparently ancient reports of Chinese alligators reaching 3 meters in length!
@@eliletts8149 whoa! That’s actually quite incredible, a 10 foot alligator is pretty large already, so a Chinese alligator that size would be quite awesome to see! Also wonder how much more broader it’s skull would be at that size, even more robust snout, and preying on larger prey items, and digging more larger burrows. There was also historically besides the Chinese alligator in China, there was also populations of saltwater crocodile and even a giant species of gharial related to the Malayan gharial that went extinct during the Bronze Age. Here was a paper on it and it got 6m!
Bro this video was so sad.
This is so sad 😞 😢
I always thought african elephants could never be tamed for circuses and that always goes to asian elephants for that role.
Exactly
It's all nonsense tbh
Even the pic of Jumbo he doesn't look African
@@southernafricanboy4148 Ummm..... African elephants have been tamed, and used in captivity for thousands of years. Probably the most famous of these were Hannibal's 'War Elephants', which came from a now extinct population of African elephants.
African elephants can be tamed just as easily as Asian elephants. It's just that places like circuses, zoos, and other exhibits, prefer Asian elephants because they are smaller(by comparison).
And Jumbo was DEFINITELY and African elephant. It's clear as day.
I hate how many AMAZING creatures that existed but are gone because people wanted to hunt them all. I don't get how even back then, why couldn't they have thought about how much more beneficial it would have been if they kept some alive they could have kept reproducing and the animal would still be around.. Like the dodo.. My imagination likes to ponder about what if dodos where still around into the modern world..
I thought genetic evidence suggests there's 3 species of elephant in Africa. I guess I was wrong.
henry was probably not the biggest, but he was still the Sultan Kösen of the bush elephants
Im like 667, you're welcome
how big do lions can get? 🤔
Probably should do that at some point.
As big as female Bengal Tigers
The biggest is in the smithsonian institute i think
How big do blue whales get?
Blue whales can reach over 100 feet in length, and weigh over 400,000 pounds. They are known to be the largest animal to EVER exist on the planet.
the max height is 13ft tall
They are not very big at all, they're slightly larger than a zebra.