Have You Seen This? When elephants (playfully) attack

THE JUNGLE – Elephants are among the most intelligent animals on Earth, exhibiting complex social structures, strong emotional capacity, and top-notch cognitive abilities. Here's a more detailed look at what makes them so darned smart:

Problem-solving: Elephants can solve complex puzzles. For example, they can learn to pull ropes or use objects to reach food.
Tool use: Elephants use a variety of tools in the wild, such as branches to swat flies or vegetation to cover their dead.
Self-recognition: Elephants are one of the few animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror, demonstrating a level of self-awareness.
Spatial memory: With excellent spatial memory, elephants can remember paths to resources and locations of water sources for decades.
Social structures: Elephants live in highly organized social groups with intricate communication systems.
Emotional depth: Elephants display behaviors that suggest empathy and compassion, such as assisting injured or distressed individuals within their herd.
Recognizing individuals: Elephants recognize individual humans and other elephants, even after long periods of separation.

Yes, it's clear that elephants are incredibly bright and personable animals. And some of these features are on display in this video:

First, the elephant sees a person who it recognizes. The elephant wants to acknowledge the person, so it must think of an appropriate way to say "hello." Showcasing the animal's precise ability with tools, it uses a stick to give the guy a playful swat.

It's all fun and games in this video, but what happened next might not have been. I'm imagining that this elephant then went over to the guy's car, hot-wired it and then drove along all the jungle paths that it remembers so well, hanging out at various watering holes with its buddies. Then the elephant probably ended up giving the badly damaged car to the leader of its social group, trying to curry favor with the boss so that it can move up in importance and one day become a herd leader itself.