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That's amazing. When I saw the title I thought, "What's this bullshit, have they run out of ideas?"

Elephants are pretty intelligent. It is more likely I think that the elephants were freaked out more by the seemingly magical ele-shit moving around on its own that by the mouse.

A lab-white mouse in the wild? sure elephants get scared, all wild animals are programmed by evolution to be scared of anything out-of-place in their natural environment, elephants also have poor sight, so a brightly coloured moving thing on the ground is likely to rise suspicion of something that screams "Stay Away" rather than "please dont eat me". Ie: a poisonous snake.

very nice find.

Agree with Throb and Bicycle.

Needs a control where the just roll the shit around. Their eyesight isn't that great, but theres no way they missed that magical shit pile jump around in front of them.

Unless they have a compelling reason (food, territory, sex, etc.), smart animals tend to reflexively not take chances.

This is not the complete segment, they did do a control where they moved the dung with no mouse, and the elephants did not react.

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Thanks jimnms, I was wondering if they did a control run.

looks to me like its not actually scared..but avoiding.

Honestly, i'm a 6'1 grown man, and i'd rather not actually step on a mouse..maybe it's just smart enough to think "I'd rather not walk around with mouse remnants on the bottom of my foot for days"

at the very end there, he should have said "what do you think??" and put that mouse right on the elephants head

They've proved that elephants are afraid of little mice with telekinetic powers enough to roll big balls of shit at them.

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"Jeeesus did ya see the mouse toss his shit-house off!! Flloyd, come'n lookit!!"