What are elephants afraid of?
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I have worked around African elephants and I know for a fact that anything that will startle a horse will startle an elephant.  This includes small creatures, such as mice, scurrying around their legs.  Captive elephants have been know to refuse to go out on exhibit because of a duck or squirrel that is already occupying it.  Elephants may not be afraid af a specific animal, but they possess many of the prey insticts found in horses, deer, and antelope.  This give them a tendency to be flighty.  The reason for this lies in their history.  African elephants ancestors evolved during a time when many large predators roamed Africa.  Some of these predators were likely to take an elephant now and then, making prey instincts a good thing for elephants to have.  Elephants (esp. African elephants) are fairly skittish animals.
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1 yes.\n2 scared of the big bully creatures.\n3 no.\n4 yes.\n5 both.\n6 yes.\n7 seeds in 1st land animal's droppings.\n8 no.
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I am also afraid of a whale. her name is Susie E.
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We are afraid of bugs because we dont completely know them. I am not trying to offend you in anyways by saying that. What i meant to say is, we fear few things in life which we think we dont have control over or are not totally aware of what exactly we are dealing with.\nWhen it comes to Bugs, some fear them because we get all these crazy thoughts of 10 legged insect which can crawl on skin and all and even hollywood movies dint help much because they always project this gigantic bug or spider frightening people. But the reality is different. If you watch more of animal planet, you will realize that they are not as fearsome as we think they are. They are just simple insects, may be with more number of legs than us and sometimes same as us. More exposure you get (i mean by means of TV shows like animal planet), more comfortable you will be with bugs.
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hhhmmmm....wait (finger on chin and scratching)...hmmm....\n\nyou know what, i don't think i have an answer that could possibly sound intelligent on this matter?! lol\n\ncould it be that you fear for you child's safety and the camel was something far more sinister and menacing??
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Roaches, Snakes most of all. I also fear dogs that I don't know or don't know me. When I was younger around 7 or 8 my sister and I was walking when we were and out of no where came this dog out of no where and bit her on the leg. She had to have around 100 stitches inside and out, and she still has the scar of it to this day.
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Arachnophobia - fear of spiders.
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Mine would be fear of heights and arachnophobia. I hate spiders!!!!
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I don't know what the least common is, but here are some phobias: batrachophobia (amphibians), pogonophobia (beards), teratophobia (deformity), keraunothnetophobia (fall of satelites), ophthamophobia (being stared at), pteronophobia (tickling with feathers), optophobia (opening one's eyes), xenoglossophobia (foreign languages), doraphobia (the skins of animals), scorodophobia (garlic), barophobia (gravity), and atelophobia (imperfection)
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The elephant would win. I saw a documentary not to long ago about rhino killing elephants in a state park in Africa. They were young bulls that had been orphaned and had not been socialized by other elephants. They came into I think they called it "rut" or it had to do with coming into that sexual state prematurely and they killed rhinos. They had to bring in mature bull elephants over forty years old to teach the young ones the ropes and get them out of "rut" (I'm not sure if I'm saying it right.) It worked.
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You haven't been in the great outdoors(TM) much, have you? If you have spent your life in a city, in front of a computer you propably don't understand much about nature. \n\nAnyway, the donkey is not really scary, but all animals, especially big ones that you are not familiar with can be intimidating. I remember being scared by a cow once! (it does weigh more than a pro wrestler, after all)\n\nAs a general rule, animals are stronger than humans and are more capable of protecting themselves if they feel threatened (donkey kicks used to kill people...). Not to make you scared, but just to remind you that real nature is not a Disney version of the forest.
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Any animal will bite if scared or angry.  They don't do it vindictively, they are just protecting themselves like they would in the wild.
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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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Ha ha ha ha......yaar......Dogs bark........but have u ever seen an Elephant scared by it's barking......let it be....it will never be a Reality......NOBODY can break INDIA...!!!!!!!!!
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Ask why they scared, they may just be shy
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Ooooh I know, African ones have bigger ears and Indian ones are more wrinkled and I think they look uglier, they like to eat grass, foliage, fruit, branches, and twigs. I'd say the best place for a Cuddly elephant is Hamleys and they sell a lot of soft toys where profits goto WWF too.\n\nHere's some information:
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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.