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Three years ago, IotD pointed to Elephant polo in Sri Lanka. This year's polo did not go so well. In the middle of the match, the above elephant became enraged somehow, threw its riders, and ran off and decided to attack this van.

At the MSNBC story there is an amazing video of the event. Once the elephant decided to attack the van - which, it turns out, was the opposing team's van - it could not be dissuaded. Young spectators and trainers try to get it away from the van by peppering it with rocks and poking it with sticks. For some reason, this does not seem to calm the big bully. For a while it goes off and destroys some stands, but eventually it returns to the van, and head-butts it from all sides.

Eventually it pushed the whole thing over. Look at the power - all the elephant's feet are almost off the ground.

They used a tranquilizer gun to subdue the beast.

Here's a better idea... a non-contact sport, just a performance for tourists in Thailand.

Thanks xoB for the first image, from WaPo Day in Pics.

1. I wonder if elephant is tasty?

2. Is the hoopster pachyderm actually using his tail to help balance?

that must of been one hellava tranquilizer to bring it down!

Where can i get some!

Gotta a few people I need to "subdue".

Edit: Get a little trigger happy Elspode?

I wonder if it was a "bad call" that so enraged the pachy. Or maybe someone threw a cup at his wife in the stands...

They shouldn't treat animals this way. It's disgusting. Elephants are intelligent, beautiful beings and they are NOT here for our amusement. Really. Pisses. Me. Off.

BTW, best part of the video is when the elephant picks up one of those long sticks those assholes have been poking him with and flings it at them. I wished he had swatted them all with his trunk.

my favorite part is when the elephant grabs the stick and whips it back at the men. that was cool.

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Originally Posted by Brianna

Because the Universe Loves Diversity!

Anyway, haven't you seen that Star Trek movie or read HitchHikers/Galaxy? Whales and dolphins are the true stewards of this planet

Fun Fact: Dolphins are the only animal, besides men and women, who engage in sex just for FUN! Isn't that cool?

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Originally Posted by Brianna

Because the Universe Loves Diversity!

Anyway, haven't you seen that Star Trek movie or read HitchHikers/Galaxy? Whales and dolphins are the true stewards of this planet

Fun Fact: Dolphins are the only animal, besides men and women, who engage in sex just for FUN! Isn't that cool?

Dolphins are the smartest form of life on earth. Haven't any of you seen hitch hikers guide to the galaxy???

I'm confused about people quoting Hitchhikers Guide as saying dolphins are the smartest animal. The book makes it clear that dolphins are the second smartest animal, while mice are the smartest.

no i think that would be auto-heterosexual. I mean if your a hermaphrodite, then you have the workings of both! You know it's Brianna's fault for turning this from a discussion about elephants to the sexual orientation of animals!

Anyway, I didn't say dolphins were the smartest, I SAID they are the stewards of the planet.

I hate all of you.

Hi vincente, welcome to the Cellar.

It didn't take them long to get that on youtube.

These people are disgusting idiots... Poor pachyderm.. His pissed and their solution is to throw stones at him. Dipwads..

Welcome Vincente. Oh and thanks..

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Sex, it turned out, is the key to the social life of the bonobo. The first suggestion that the sexual behavior of bonobos is different had come from observations at European zoos. Wrapping their findings in Latin, primatologists Eduard Tratz and Heinz Heck reported in 1954 that the chimpanzees at Hellabrun mated more canum (like dogs) and bonobos more hominum (like people). In those days, face-to- face copulation was considered uniquely human, a cultural innovation that needed to be taught to preliterate people (hence the term "missionary position"). These early studies, written in German, were ignored by the international scientific establishment. The bonobo's humanlike sexuality needed to be rediscovered in the 1970s before it became accepted as characteristic of the species.

Bonobos become sexually aroused remarkably easily, and they express this excitement in a variety of mounting positions and genital contacts. Although chimpanzees virtually never adopt face-to-face positions, bonobos do so in one out of three copulations in the wild. Furthermore, the frontal orientation of the bonobo vulva and clitoris strongly suggest that the female genitalia are adapted for this position.

Bonobos do the missionary position one third of the time. They have made sex an integral part of their social interaction, like we wave or shake hands. The females use it to control the social structure of the group. Yada, yada, yada. I see no where, the claim they do it for fun, like dolphins and humans.