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💰 Support the channel: YuMoney: 4100118215527015 It weighs seven tons—but can disappear silently into the night. It remembers everyone who hurt it. And its ancestor was the size of a rabbit. Today we're talking about the elephant—a creature that is right now changing its own biology in response to what we've done to it. This video has it all: 60 million years of evolution from the erytherium to the mammoth, three species of elephants including the Bornean pygmy elephant, a trunk with 40,000 muscles, an elephant that speaks Korean, the story of Lawrence Anthony and the elephants who came to say goodbye, the execution of Topsy the elephant in front of 1,500 spectators, and how poaching changed the DNA of an entire species forever. Subscribe—new videos about animals and wildlife every week. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 — Hook: A Creature You Don't Know 02:00 — Appearance: Why Elephants Aren't Gray 06:00 — Trunk: 40,000 Muscles, Zero Bones 10:00 — Evolution: From Rabbit to Giant in 60 Million Years 16:00 — Species: Savannah, Forest, Asian, Dwarf 20:00 — Intelligence: Mirror, Korean Language, Elephant Customs 26:00 — Emotions: Mourning, Lawrence Anthony, Altruism 32:00 — Physiology: Nature's Records 36:00 — Tusks: Tool, Sentence, Evolutionary Response 40:00 — Elephants and People: Wars, Circuses, Topsy's Execution 44:00 — Elephants as an Ecosystem: Gardeners of Africa 46:00 — The Future: 500,000 of 20 million #elephants #wildlife #nature #animals #interestingfacts #africa #elephant #wildlife #science #documentary #mammoths #evolution #poaching #asianelephant #endangeredspecies Music: long way by Rexlambo / rexlambo License: Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://audiolibrary.com.co/rexlambo/... Music promoted by Audio Library: • DAILY No Copyright For You – long way by R...