Why elephants afraid to mice?
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There not afraid of mice
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Goes back to the ancient days when elephants were used to move a lot of things. One elephant ,one day, refused and its owner went behind the elephant and smacked him in the jewels with a log. After that the elephant was fine. The next day another elephant did the same thing. Its owner asked the elephant if he remembered yesterday. The elephant nodded. The owner then asked the elephant if he wanted to get hit and the elephant shook his head vigorously and behaved himself..We been shaking and nodding the same way ever since.
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Communists were scared of ridding a camel.
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No, elephants can not jump.\n\nTheir weight is far too immense (sometimes well over 10,000 lbs).  There is no way their leg muscles could exert enough energy to lift and propel them off the ground.
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Been there, done this!  They are not. It's an urban legend. Besides, Elephants aren't afraid of humans, lions, or anything. Even lion prides move out of the way when the big animals comes.\n\nSnopes comments that "In fact, given the large size and relatively poor eyesight of elephants, they don't necessarily notice the occasional mouse scurrying around them all that often."\n\nAlthough it's possible that if by some fluke the mouse scurrying noise was magnified an elephant might be a little spooked and try to figure out whether it's dangerous or not.
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It would not surprise me. Here is an interesting fact. In old China\nmice meant good luck.The idea being that if you had mice you must have more then enough food.
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My aunt has been scared of chickens ever since she was a kid when my nan chopped the head off of one in their back garden and the thing started running around without it's head!\nI guess that chicken was fatally wounded, but was too stupid to realise (it didn't have a brain anymore).
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I used to be an elephant keeper, so I've seen them do this occasionally. They don't do it often (in zoos anyway), but they could do it probably up to about 20 ft. It's a kind of behavior that's not desirable - having them squirt water on paying patrons, so keepers train them to not do it. I hope this answers your question.
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Please stop believing these people that say giraffes do not have vocal chords.  I get myths like these all the time at the zoo where I work.  So far, the only one that is actually true is the one about elephants being afraid of mice (anything that will scare a horse will scare an elephant, including small creatures running around their legs).  Giraffes DO have a voice box (larynx); they just don't use it often.  When they do, it is often in the form of a soft moo.  It is also possible that they communicate through infrasound, like elephants.  These sounds are too low for us humans to hear.  In case you don't believe me (despite my experience), I found you a link.
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Rock percursors. If your animals are acting up it's too late ... they are reacting to the small tremors that we can't feel yet.
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Haha... Most living things change their behaviour when exposed to loud music. My dad does all the time.\n\nLoud music plays havoc on the ears, imagine a tiny mouse ear. Plus listening consumes energy... so mice are into some big hell when under such environments.
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Naw, they are scared of me.  Afraid I'll turn them into a cute, snuggly bunny!
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Elephants have evolved with tusks as the elongated teeth enable the elephants to manipulate and hold items with the trunk and tusks.  They can pick up quite small items and rotate in front of their lips using the trunk and tusk combination to strip off the leaves etc.  They also use the trunk to strip the bark off of trees,scrape earth up to dig water holes and mineral scrapes, and for defence - although their large size makes them fairly predator proof.\nIndian elephants have smaller tusks than African elephants because they have evolved as a jungle species and the bigger tusks would get in the way in the undergrowth etc, plus the lusher vegetation means they do not need to scrape for water etc.
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Elephants.\n\nThey had to import adult female matriarchs and their herds to one African natural preserve, because all they had was a herd of juvenile male elephants....who had turned delinquent, and were KILLING rhinos for fun.  The matriarchs did some major rear-end whupping and the juvinile males learned to behave.\n\nhttp://philologos.org/bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms034.htm\n\nHippos are rulers of the water, when nothing bigger is around, but they are much smaller and softer than elephants... if ever confronted, hippos wouldn't stand a chance... considering that elephants can kill the much better armored rhinos!
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You could also throw that question right back and ask why animals ever come into contact with us since they know we will kill them?\n\nYou would do well to study a bit more about the preservation of species. It's a line of thought that looks at the self-preservation instincts and tactics of all animals and organisms. Man is no different than any other animal, it will expand as a way of preserving its species and along the way anything that poses a threat to even one of it's members will be dealt with. Often times that consists of killing the animal, other times we simply remove ourselves or the offending animal in question to another location that is safe for both.\n\nYou also need to be a little more careful about using such final statements that are black in white in nature. Your question makes it seem that "dumb" humans just wander around and kill things that get mad at it, and that's all they ever do. \n\nInstead of just yelping out questions that are one-sided and poorly researched, why don't you spend some time reading about it yourself and learning something on your own, then come back and ask a smarter question.
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Fear is natural and necessary to keep your dumba$$ alive!\nWhy don't you just walk out onto a busy freeway? Because of the fear of getting run over.\nWhy don't you jump over the fence of the tiger exhibit at the zoo? Fear of being tasty!\nWhy do we tell our kids "Don't talk to strangers"? Fear our kids will get stolen, among other terrible things!\nIf our ancestors hadn't had fear...we wouldn't be here now!!! We would have been dino food!
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Assuming you mean - in general why do elephants testis etc. not hang away from their body.\n\nThe answer is basically because it prevents them from being damaged while walking (being dragged), or from predators leaping up towards the animal.\n\nBecause we stand on two legs we're more readily prepared to fight whatever comes at us from the front.\n\nOther animals on fours have no underbelly protection so they pull in the testis in an adaptive way which basically protects their species ability to reproduce.\n\n\n----\nHope this helps you.\nEnjoy zoology, I hear it's terribly hard.