This wasn't in the travel brochure!

[Jenn]

[TripleAAA]

I love the face of the person on the female elephant. "Whoa...wait a minute..."

But they guy in the black shirt looks photo shopped.

[One-Fang]

I love the face of the female elephant! She seems to be enjoying it.

It's probably not a 'shop. I mean, it's bound to have happened. Animals don't think "Hang on, I'm working, better wait till later".

[Stoneage Dinosaur]

For comparison, here's a clip on Youtube of an elephant going at it with a man on his back (NSFW obviously):

[Arriah]

I'm not going to tell him this isn't a good time, you tell him!

[Syllavus]

This would be funny to me if I hadn't noticed the man wacking the elephant in the head with that hooked club. Not a fan in general of elephants being hit with things.

[mags]

Originally Posted by Syllavus

This would be funny to me if I hadn't noticed the man wacking the elephant in the head with that hooked club. Not a fan in general of elephants being hit with things.

It looks to me less like he's whacking the elephant, and more like he's using the hook to hang on and keep from falling off.

[purpleiguana]

Originally Posted by Stoneage Dinosaur

For comparison, here's a clip on Youtube of an elephant going at it with a man on his back (NSFW obviously):

Elephant Humping

It has always amused me how an elephant's penis seems to have a mind of its own. I mean, the main bulk of the elephant wasn't doing much.

[Beachlife!]

Originally Posted by mags

It looks to me less like he's whacking the elephant, and more like he's using the hook to hang on and keep from falling off.

I think he's correcting the elephant, which is probably necessary since he and the people on both elephants could be seriously injured.

Give his position and the way he has to work around the man in front of him, I don't see anyway he's doing much more than making contact with the elephant's head .

[Joostik]

Originally Posted by purpleiguana

It has always amused me how an elephant's penis seems to have a mind of its own. I mean, the main bulk of the elephant wasn't doing much.

Indeed, the male elephant has a prehensile penis:

To compensate for this awkward, nearly life-threatening position, nature endowed the male with a prehensile penis. That's right: prehensile. It moves as voluntarily and as dexterously as an elephant's trunk, and is as big as a baseball bat.

An Abolitionist for Elephants

[SatansHobbit]

Originally Posted by TripleAAA

I love the face of the person on the female elephant. "Whoa...wait a minute..."

It could have been worse if Barbar was kinky and fancied a bit of missionary position.

[Latiam]

I have always detested the practice of using hooks on elephants. I saw a documentary a few years ago that went through the entire process of how an elephant was trained and caged and IMO that is part of the reason for the rampages that do occur when they snap. It was one of the reasons for my decision to never attend a circus involving animals, a place such as "Marineland," or your typical zoo ever again. The exception I make is the "African Lion Safari" type places where you drive through and the animals have a fair bit of land. I'm not even too wild about that, but the one near here is actually quite good at birthing and raising animals in captivity that are pretty well extinct outside of zoos and the like, and if it comes down to a zoo or that place I'd choose that place every time. They also have elephants, and they're trained through more positive methods. They have a show where the elephants step over their trainers to show how sensitive their feet are, "paint" on shirts to show how prehensile their trunk is, and pull a log to show how strong they are. At the end you can actually come up and touch their sides, which is an experience for a 5 year old. You can also watch them bathe and I was wondering how they were controlled and brought in and out of the water - they used a sheepdog (No, he didn't nip them)

[purpleiguana]

I always thought that prehensile meant "grabbing" rather than "having independent movement."

[TripleAAA]

I think he's correcting the elephant, which is probably necessary since he and the people on both elephants could be seriously injured.

How do you stop a horny elephant?

[ganzfeld]

Originally Posted by Stoneage Dinosaur

For comparison, here's a clip on Youtube of an elephant going at it with a man on his back (NSFW obviously):

NSFW? Better safe than sorry, I guess but are there really workplaces out there that wouldn't object to someone reading the ULMB but would object to a picture of elephants mating?

[Stoneage Dinosaur]

No, especially as it's now been embedded, but I posted a link a while ago that should have been flagged as NSFW, so since then I've probably been a bit over cautious.

[One-Fang]

Originally Posted by purpleiguana

I always thought that prehensile meant "grabbing" rather than "having independent movement."

According to many online dictionaries, you're right. Unless he's doing something completely unusual with that penis, 'prehensile' was not the term they were looking for.

[Troberg]

Originally Posted by Syllavus

This would be funny to me if I hadn't noticed the man wacking the elephant in the head with that hooked club. Not a fan in general of elephants being hit with things.

Remember, elephants push over trees. They are plenty thick skinned. It will not hurt it, you need that stick for it to notice that you are trying to tell it something. That's probably what we would consider a tap on the shoulder.

[blinkingblythe]

Originally Posted by Jenn

This just shows thayt Mother Nature does not always follow the script people try to lay out for it.