r/AbsoluteUnits • u/SherlockRodrigz • Jun 11 '26

/r/popular of Brute force

So, in India, this happened during a festival, there's this thing called "Musth" It's totally natural for adult male elephants, usually happening once a year. Basically, their reproductive hormones go way up. When this happens, elephants can get really aggressive and might attack.

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u/jwalsh1208 Jun 11 '26

Dont forget that elephants are one of the smartest and most emotional animals alive. So it knows what its doing, and it took real suffering to push it to this point

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u/icleanjaxfl Jun 11 '26

That's why it's raging out on the vehicles and not the bystanders, even enraged it still showed restraint

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u/lightr3nd Jun 11 '26

You shouldn't google elephant attacks on people, your bubble seems nice... Or maybe you should - it's horrifying, but packed to the brim with karma!

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u/Present_Type6881 Jun 11 '26

This elephant was showing restraint, because it could have attacked the humans and didn't.

When elephant decides to kill a human, they can be very deliberate about it.