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This reptile thought it had got lucky when a baby elephant wandered down to the watering hole for a drink and it got the drop on the young calf.
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Fortunately, the rest of the group heard it's cries for help and came thundering down. It's not unknown, but still extremely rare for this kind of attack to occur, let alone be caught on camera.
More on the story here.
Fortunately? I guess you favor elephants over crocodiles. Crocs are part of nature, too, and they need to eat.
Fortunate for the baby elephant, not necessarily the crocodile. It is rare a croc will take on something of that size, although it would have kept it fed for a long while.
Then again, at least it didn't attack a baby hippo.
Clearly, this elephant calf never read any Rudyard Kipling.
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They used to have short noses until one little elephant foolishly went to talk to the crocodile.
I once saw some amazing footage on a nature documentary. A lioness jumped into a crocodile infested river in pursuit of a zebra.
The zebra made it to the other side....
Yeah, I looked at that picture and though "oh, it must be the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, I wonder where the fever-trees are."Quote:
Originally posted by Zuul
Hope the kid's snoot is okay; an elephant that can't use its trunk is pretty much screwed-- unless the rest of the herd takes over the job of feeding it, which I believe has been known to happen.
The last time a baby elephant was born at the local zoo, the entire herd of females doted on it, with the result that the li'l tyke grew up spoiled rotten. As the baby grew, it began straying further from the herd, and sometimes it would wander out of direct view of the other elephants. Every time this happened, it would immediately panic and start crying, and the entire herd would come thundering and bellowing to the rescue.
As soon as they determined that there was no danger, the herd would move back to the water hole, and soon the baby would resume wandering, so the exact same thing would happen all over again. The herd must have gotten royally sick of the routine after awhile, but they never shirked.
After awhile the keepers were forced to fence off one end of the habitat to keep the baby out of there, since the other elephants were becoming exhausted from charging to the rescue all the time.
Fortunately the baby eventually wised up to the realization that there were probably no tigers hiding in the elephant habitat. Elephants and keepers alike were relieved at this development-- right up until the baby demonstrated its newfound independence by climbing out of the display...
Really, it's the fearful ones you have to watch out for. Once they conquer a level of fear unlike anyone else's, nothing's going to hold them back.Quote:
Originally posted by terrifel