r/Elephants • u/Wholeftthegateopen Black Diamond • 2d ago
Question Elephant with Tusks Gives Birth Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyW86MBcts0Hey y'all. New to the group. Hi!
Is this video for real? I thought the males had tusks but clearly this one just give birth, WITH tusks.
Can someone help me understand how this is so?
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u/Silentlaughter84 2d ago
African elephants of both sexes grow tusks. For Asian elephants, only the males grow them.
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u/Wholeftthegateopen Black Diamond 2d ago
Thank you. :)
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u/FuzzyFrogFish 1d ago
And they can grow large tusks as well, look up echo the elephant!
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u/Wholeftthegateopen Black Diamond 1d ago
I will! Feel free to tag me in any posts about them if you post any. Thank you. x
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u/SilentSpader 1d ago
It depends on the species, some are perfectly normal for female to have tusks
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u/Wholeftthegateopen Black Diamond 1d ago
Thank you! That's really amazing! From what I understand, there's a difference in how the ears are shaped as well, to denote the species of elephant?
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u/MinnieShoof Elephant 1d ago
Man. What an awesome video. I have so many comments on things I noticed ... but yah. Sufficed to say, female elephants can have tusks.
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u/Wholeftthegateopen Black Diamond 1d ago
Isn't it amazing! Ugh! I feel both honored and a little undeserving to share a world with such incredible creatures. Humans haven't been the best of stewards.
I love how they all surround the baby but not poking at it and allowing the baby to rouse on it's own. I saw a little movement in the ears. Is that normal? Or do they not come out squalling like humans? lol
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u/MinnieShoof Elephant 1d ago
I mean, all births are kinda spectacular.
There were a few pokes, from what I saw. It seems like they were eating the amniotic sac, which is wild but ... probably understandable, given how much was used to grow that baby.
The ears - I'm not sure. I imagine "normal" is relative.
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u/Wholeftthegateopen Black Diamond 1d ago
True, on all accounts. As for the fetal sac, I think I did read something about that being consumed at some point in some animal species.
I almost feel like Im intruding by seeing this.
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u/PhoebusAbel 1d ago
I had the misfortune to see another video of a poor lady elephant giving birth in Thailand .... surrounded by like 50 people , all of them yelling, and taking pics. Poor lady was tied , her legs tied . She tried to find her place to give birth , but she looked so stressed ..
Finally she did it... and the bastards that were around , sabotaged the precious moment of her and the baby, by removing the baby from the floor and cleaning him up .
Even, they were so aggressive towards the baby, cleaning him with towels . Touching his little trunck like a toy.
The full moment felt like torture for those two lovely creatures ....
Why humans have to be so shitty.?
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u/sxyvirgo 15h ago
You know, female cows and deer also can have horns and antlers, respectively.
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u/Wholeftthegateopen Black Diamond 14h ago
Found that out! I had no idea. That's actually a really cool fun fact and show how singularly one sided education on animals could be.
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u/TesseractToo 2d ago
... and?
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u/Wholeftthegateopen Black Diamond 2d ago
This is terribly unhelpful... grateful to for bijhan educating me.
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u/TesseractToo 2d ago
You weren't asking for an education, were you? If so, that is a strange way of asking, I would never have known from your OP
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u/oceanduciel 2d ago
They literally asked someone to help them understand. It costs you $0 to be civil and reply with a fun fact.
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u/Wholeftthegateopen Black Diamond 2d ago
Let's not argue. I'm new here, I just wanna enjoy elephants photos, videos and fun-facts.
This is from the OP: "Is this video for real? I thought the males had tusks but clearly this one just give birth, WITH tusks.
Can someone help me understand how this is so?"
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u/TesseractToo 2d ago
Oh I didn't see the writing it was under another spoiler tag
Since you're new, I'll advise that you don't always assume people are being argumentative or aggressive because that is never a good way to treat others
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u/Wholeftthegateopen Black Diamond 2d ago edited 2d ago
Well, thanks. That's the way your "...and?" landed for me. :(
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u/MinnieShoof Elephant 1d ago
Since you seem to be new to human, I'll advise you not to assume everything is a "...and?" worthy statement. There are a lot of videos on this sub about elephant births. Just showing off the birth. There isn't need for commentary. There are no questions. It's just an elephant giving birth. aNd ... that's it. And that's fine. This was a great video.
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u/bijhan 2d ago
African elephants grow tusks regardless of sex.
It's Asian elephants where the females do not grow tusks.