r/MadeMeSmile • u/TheBotMadeThis • Mar 11 '26

ANIMALS A happy kid with her happy elephant.

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u/Select_Ad7963 Mar 11 '26

I love how elephants are so intelligent 🥰

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u/AlternativePea6203 Mar 11 '26

And so gentle.

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u/FSpursy Mar 11 '26

The gentle ones are trained since 1-2 years old. They learn to control their strength and understand that if they dont hold back, they can easily hurt a human. Wild elephants wont know this.

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u/ConsciousProduce8798 Mar 11 '26

Trained by being broken though. Same thing they do to horses. It's quite awful.

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u/gentle_gardener Mar 11 '26

It's way worse than what is done with horses. Search 'phajaan' for the reality of what this little elephant may have been through

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u/ILookLikeKristoff Mar 11 '26

It's much worse than horses.

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u/hilarymeggin Mar 11 '26

That’s why I love the gentleness of this interaction! That juvenile elephant could so easily knock her down and take those gourds, but out of mutual respect and the history of their relationship, they interact gently with each other.

Just like horses and kids.

Where it can go sideways is when people get the idea “all elephants/horses will interact with humans just as gently as this lovingly raised animal.”

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u/zardoz73 Mar 11 '26

Even if raised in captivity, there's always a chance a wild animal goes wild. Even with the families that raised it.