In a rain forest in Odisha, India, many Asian elephants are inhabited. What is unexpected is that these Asian elephants are very "addiction" to a fermented wine, "Mahua" wine.
On that day, 15 Asian elephants happened to pass by with 9 sub-adult baby elephants. When they smelled the fragrance of "Mahua" wine, they hurriedly ran up and drank 7 large pots of "Mahua" wine. They were still drunk and lying next to the broken jar and fell asleep.
01Odisha : 24 Asian elephants drank 7 cans of wine, knocked down 8 big trees as thick as a bowl, and smashed 3 houses
According to the Times of India, local villagers came to the forest and were preparing to make "mahua" wine, but found that the "mahua" wine they had brewed a few days ago disappeared. What was most annoying was that all the wine jars were broken and threw them on the ground, which looked messy.
When the villagers saw this, they were so angry that they stamped their feet and beat their chests, and said angrily: If they let him know who did it, they will pay the price.
"Mahua" is a flower of long-leafed redbud . "Mahua" wine is a traditional wine made of this flower. Local villagers like to leave these wine jars in the forest for fermentation, and then pick them home after they become wine.
The villagers saw the elephants lying on the ground, and then they realized that it was the group of Asian elephants who had secretly drunk their own wine and wanted to drive them away, but no matter how they beat them, they could not wake them up. Later, the village chief called many people and beat drums to wake these elephants from their sleep.
These drunk elephants stood up slowly, stumbled around, knocking down 8 trees as thick as bowls along the way, and knocking down 5 wooden houses, and then slowly walked into the forest.
02 Bangladesh: 50 Asian elephants rushed into the village, drank 500 liters of beer in the store, and smashed the doors of many houses. Coincidentally, in Bangladesh, India, there is a small village called Dumokta. Local Asian elephants also like to drink the villagers' homemade wine.
On this day, everyone was busy with farm work outside. Suddenly, 50 Asian elephants living in nearby forests rushed into the village. They did not eat other foods and were only interested in the wine in the store.
This group of Asian elephants opened the door while the owner was not at home and drank all the inventory in the store - 18 tanks of homemade beer, which was 500 liters. After drinking, I finished peeing in the room before walking out.
After drinking, Asian elephants became the same as the drunken Indians, and became very aggressive and started to play with alcohol in the village. Several houses in the village were knocked down by them, and the doors of many houses were broken on the spot.
This is not a big deal. This group of Asian elephants are doing destruction everywhere, trampling along the way, destroying hundreds of acres of farmland in the village, and hitting and killing the five villagers who worked in the fields.
03 Asian elephants weigh four or five tons, why do you get drunk if you drink some wine?
As we all know, Asian elephants are pure herbivorous animals. About 8 million years ago, the staple food of Asian elephants was almost all grass. Their favorite food was juicy branches, bamboo shoots, banana leaves, and palm leaf reeds. About 1 million years ago, fruits were added to the food of Asian elephants. For them, these fruits were delicious and juicy, and they wanted to eat fruits except for the time they were sleeping and resting.
In recent years, scientists have discovered that Asian elephants in many places have begun to drink. But what is puzzled is that the burly Asian elephant will get drunk if she drinks a few kilograms of wine. Why is that?
According to research by zoologists, one of the most core factors that determine the alcohol content of humans (animals) is the gene, namely the ADH7 gene.
Among mammals, only primates, including humans, are completely normal. The ADH7 gene in many animals has "failure". For those animals with "failure" in ADH7 gene, alcohol is easily gathered in the blood, which is manifested as being more likely to "get drunk".
This means that no matter how big you are, as long as you consume a certain amount of alcohol, it is easy to accumulate in the body due to the slow catabolism rate.
The ADH7 gene in Asian elephants also has "functional dysfunction", which makes them very low tolerant of alcohol. Their ability to metabolize alcohol is only 1/40 of that of humans. In other words, drinking 1 kilogram of wine is equivalent to drinking 40 kilograms of wine from Asian elephants.
can be seen that although Asian elephants like the taste of wine, due to their alcoholic decomposition gene defects, their alcohol content is average, and they may "drink a glass after drinking."
Popular Science: Asian elephants are the largest terrestrial animals in existence. They fight with front teeth and use ears as palm fan
Asian elephants belong to the proboscis family and are one of the largest terrestrial animals in existence. Because its bulky body is the only one that cannot jump among mammals on all fours. Asian elephants have a large forehead, with a large bulge on each side of the forehead, which is often called "intellectual tumor".
The ears of Asian elephants are like two "big palm fan" that is nearly 1 meter. When it incites the "big palm fan", the air in the forest can reduce the temperature of its blood by up to about 5℃.
Male elephant has a pair of long incisors. The object teeth are actually 1-2 meters long, and one piece weighs 60-80 kilograms. Interestingly, its incisor is not used to cut food, but is used as a weapon for fighting.
The Asian elephant has thick limbs and is very strong, like 4 pillars. When walking quickly, the Asian elephant will experience a very strange "slide" swaying action.
The most eye-catching thing is this fleshy long nose about 2 meters long. The nose is like the "hand" of an Asian elephant. It is used to eat and drink water. Interestingly, when Asian elephants want to express friendly emotions, the long noses will be entangled with each other.
