With no fresh water coming in to Hwata pan, the spoilt elephants have to make do with what’s there. Good muddy water. This doesn’t impress Snorkel.
Try as he may to carefully suck water just off the surface, he still ends up with a trunk full of muddy water. Not the sort of water he’s been spoilt with and squirts it out.
But the only animals to blame for the all the water being muddy are the elephants themselves. And especially the bulls who can’t resist a mud wallow and mud bathing.
Their spoilt behaviour only lasts a day and then they’re desperate and will drink anything, but will always be in search for clean water.
amazing. makes me more convinced that the word anthropomorphism should be struck from the dictionary.
I wonder if there are any animals who are conscious of the effect that their present actions (e.g., wallowing in mud) will have on their future actions (drinking clean water). If an animal as intelligent as the elephant doesn’t make that kind of association, I would guess that no animal can.
Well, maybe not “glee”….!
I’m sure elephants can work it out, but just like humans it’s probably each one for himself. So he’s had a drink and is keen to wallow so he will. They don’t worry about the other guy. Humans are the same.