topsydead:

I’m telling you elephants are chill motherfuckers. They fucking love being helpful. They once defended a man with heatstroke from a truck that came to rescue him. They knew he was sick, laying against a tree for shade. They were watching over him and petting him, and they threatened to charge the vehicle for coming towards him. Another person passed out, and elephants cried over her and buried her body in a traditional elephant funeral. (Piling branches on her). And were quite spooked when she got up later.

And an elephant was helping workers to put logs in holes for a wall. On one hole, the elephant absolutely refused to set the log in, despite being punished and goaded. Turns out there was a sleeping dog in the hole.

There are so many good elephants stories. They will even help zookeepers wash other elephants– literally, a zookeeper can be like “[Name 1], please wash [Name 2]” and he will go wash that elephant correctly.

Listen guys. Not only are elephants people, but they’re largely better people than us. I’m 10000% serious.

emerald-of-the-eight:

A fully articulated Spinosaurus display. Spinosaurus was an enormous dinosaur that lived in what is now North Africa some 112 to 93 million years ago, and is believed by many to be the largest and longest of all theropod species. The function and structure of their titular “spines” is widely debated; some believe that they were connected by a thin web of skin, perhaps as a threat display or for thermoregulation, while others suggest they might have been hidden under a large hump of flesh and fat. Images by

Kabacchi on Flickr.

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