r/SipsTea • u/Delicious-Act-8601 • 21h ago

Chugging tea Photographed on a highway in India, two captive elephants reach their trunks toward one another in a brief moment of contact before being separated

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u/realfakejames 21h ago

Elephants have intelligence and emotions, putting them in captivity is evil

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u/Sweet-Princeess 19h ago

The saddest part is that elephants can suffer emotionally just like we do, yet their suffering is often ignored because they can’t speak our language.

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u/Little-Carpenter4443 20h ago

What if one of them was the Hitler of elephants? And the other one a Mussolini?

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u/MahmasPip 20h ago

Would nazi elephants wear bands on their trunks?

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u/Head-Ad9893 20h ago

Then they start bombing their neighbors and trying to tell the world it’s in self defense

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u/Little-Carpenter4443 20h ago

Yes of course, that’s the only logical place, I’d assume that’s how they salute too.

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u/Matk_018 17h ago

Or maybe he's hiding it ,who knows to many evil elephants these days .

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 20h ago

It would be for the elephants to deal with not the humans.

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u/EnchantingBabee03 20h ago

A brief moment of comfort between two animals who deserve so much better.

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u/xwOBA_Fett 21h ago

This is really sad. 

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u/butterflykissz 19h ago

Could be mother and child. Or two strangers, elephants are highly social beings. Heartbreaking all the ways

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u/thebudeg 20h ago

After humanity has wipe itself out I really hope the world has enough room left to heal. Hopefully we'll just be forgotten and not a permanent scar on this beautiful world.

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u/Galactic-Equilibrium 17h ago

If you go to space you can’t even tell we are here. I think that gives us the answer

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u/playhandminton 5h ago

Kinda comment needed to read after that pic

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u/govcov 17h ago

Good luck about leaving a permanent scar
https://giphy.com/gifs/cQbMMGv6IG2x8SfOXc

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u/DetectiveDizzyEyes 15h ago

That will erode eventually

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u/govcov 15h ago

Yes. Eventually the whole mountain will erode away, but I would think that blasting hundreds of tons of rock off a mountain would count as a permanent scar.

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u/RecommendationIll59 21h ago

✋ - - > 🤝

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u/Groot8902 21h ago

Source?

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u/OkPear8053 21h ago

AI

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u/Twinkletoess112 16h ago

it's from 2010s

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u/SirDorkusMalorkus 20h ago

I took the photo from my low flying helicopter, that's how you know it's real

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u/Inevitable_Jury3594 20h ago

Glad you answered - I was gonna call bullshit but a low flying helicopter checks out, good flying ace

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u/Xygnux 19h ago

Can confirm, I was sitting on top of the road signs and saw you.

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u/AlbusDT2 18h ago

Nerf humans… far too cruel.

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u/whatisapersonreally 17h ago

This sub is a roller coaster

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u/ProfAsmani 17h ago

Never attend any animal shows with elephants, bears, tigers etc. They're tortured, beaten and abused.

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u/South_External_5393 2h ago

It's quite painful, as elephants can't forget as normal cattle do and are emotionally quite intelligent.

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u/Whateverredd 20h ago

Im not saying its AI but both trucks are in an on coming trafic lane

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u/Death_black 20h ago

I am

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u/putin_putin_putin 19h ago

There is a news article from 2016 with this pic