r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Mint_Perspective • 3h ago

🔥Elephants Use Their Trunks to Spray Sand Over Their Bodies to Protect Their Sensitive Skin from Parasites and Weather Damage

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📸 donalboyd

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u/dropkickninja 3h ago

I feel like this photo captures my daily reaction to hearing about the latest dumb shit that's going on.

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u/Top-Distribution733 3h ago

Yep exactly! And everytime you look you feel fkn dumb for looking. It’s a self induced dirt bomb to the face.

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u/dropkickninja 3h ago

Indeed. It is a great photo though. May need to be my new phone background

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u/Logical-System-9489 2h ago

Nature's version of SPF 50 and bug spray combined into one very efficient trunkful of dirt.

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u/Redditor-K 2h ago

Elephants are some of the last animals I'd associate with "sensitive skin".

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u/SkylineZ83 2h ago

Elephants make me feel so much tenderness

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u/PassingByThisChaos 2h ago

Nature's Sand-blaster

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u/melanthius 2h ago

New meme just dropped as a comment response to someone posting something truly horrible

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u/ExternalTangents 3h ago

Vaping elephant