also btw i read somewhere that Musth (the manic episode) can be shortened down to approximately 2 weeks when the elephants are restrained (with a metal chain) and practically starved a bit (given very little food) for a while. (they survive ofc)
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The image from the OOP is in the article. TL;DR, male elephants get crazy angry when they're horny you assert their dominance.
TIL elephants experience pon farr.
Just last night, we were watching a show that featured this fact about elephants, and I turned to my girlfriend and made this exact comment! Hilarious
Just want to point how weird it is that Spock's wife is so patient, understanding, and loving in SNW when she's such an evil conniving bitch in TOS and that's only a few years later. I'm assuming we're going to see spock do something awful to her.
I mean he is kind of in love with the ship's nurse, it's not hard to imagine what comes next.
Yeah good point, and t'ping is already kind of aware of it.
Uh?
In Star Trek vulcans are extremely calm most of the time, but then occasionally go through a time period when they become crazy violent mega-hornballs
claw plach!
The rhinoceros beetle says “check this slab of HOT bug SEX sitting before you upon a stick. My stick. No one else may perch upon my throne, my lair, my kingdom, lest they be smote upon the ground like so much errant detritus. I am a fucking god.” Sex appeal is weird across the animal kingdom.
Please point me in the direction to learn about this.
I've got some praying to do.
Well because of how "evolution" - it makes you produce more babies than the others that didn't fuck and kill. So... That.
So... Why?
E.g. does it drive predators away and their offspring has a higher chance of survival?
Animals that fuck more propagate their genes more. If they're also violent, they're probably taking out their competitors, and the non-violent ones are likely first to go.
elephant pregnancy lats 22 months
makes sense that elephant psychosis would last longer too
Why?
Real reason is males are mostly solitary and elephant territories are enormous. Being horny for months gives the males enough motivation to seek out the herd of women and children over the long distances.
elephants have an unusually long gestation period (and not just for their size, whales are typically only pregnant for about 12 months) Researchers think its necessary to give their brains time to fully develop, of which they have the outright largest of any land mammal and a body-to-brain ratio that rivals our own.
As for psychosis, I've been told that for people it typical lasts about a month from whatever triggers it. Maybe the bigger brain would mean it needs more time for the... psychosis(?)... to work through... whatever it's doing? Honestly, it's probably not whats happening with the elephants. They sounded superficially similar, so I made a glib comment about it.
the cycle between the day and the night represents the cycle of mania and peace
If we hadn't already nuked ourselves by slaughtering the bees, and the bees suddenly took 80 % of our living space from us to expand their own, we'd be nuking them.
The fascinating part is, why aren't the smart, massive matriarchs ordering all humans stomped on sight?
One of us is drunk and not making sense... im not 100% sure, but im leaning toward you...