Since the early 1990’s, for example, young male elephants in Pilanesberg National Park and the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa have been raping and killing rhinoceroses; this abnormal behavior, according to a 2001 study in the journal Pachyderm, has been reported in ‘‘a number of reserves’’ in the region.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 October 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 9 October 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― literalisp (literalisp), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― literalisp (literalisp), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 01:29 (seventeen years ago) link
red in tooth and claw, etc etc
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
YOU GONNA GET RAPED
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I saw a blurry long distance photo of an elephant mounting a rhino while back. Crazy stuff.
I read that a lot of this was down to the elephants having had bad childhoods.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.geocities.com/elefant.geo/Postcards/Screw1.jpg
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/Orphan_Files/32920052192-pic1.jpg
― researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 09:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Previously in India: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2583891.stm
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Rhinos have poor eyesight too. As do hippos. Anything fat and grey really...
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
some elephants are buildingshttp://www.thomasriddle.net/high-on-chatuchak/images/elephant_2009.jpgand some elephants are womenhttp://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1782&g2_imageViewsIndex=1
― Proger, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Elephant building is amazing! Thailand?!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
I got impatient: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Building
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, sorry, on route from the old don muang airport
― Proger, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
that thing is hideous!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
That building does have all the characteristics of an elephant, tho: elephants are well known to have 32 floors and to be 102 meters (335ft.) high.
― Col. Pinkney Lugenbeel (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 May 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5064/5670161637_bd808ff07b.jpg
Some elephants are knitted. by me. For a friend's baby.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 19 May 2011 08:58 (twelve years ago) link
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, May 18, 2011 1:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Things cane be hideous and amazing at the same time you know.
Nathalie I am extrememly impressed by your knitting skills. That looks very complicated. Beautiful.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 19 May 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
It isn't something for beginners of course, but it isn't as complex as it looks. :-) It's a craft: the more you practice, the easier it gets. Thank you though. :-)
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
Stop with the modesty, nath, you are a genius at stranded knitting and those elephants are adorbs.
― Col. Pinkney Lugenbeel (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks. :-) I am not genius enough to cut it though. ARGH STEEKING. :-)
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, yes, steeking sounds as a scary as home surgery! :O
― Col. Pinkney Lugenbeel (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
It's a bit much, tbh
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10908709/India-news-Dalma-Wildlife-Sanctuary-elephant-kills-woman-returns-trample-corpse.html
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 July 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
If it had done the the same to David Attenborough I'd be commending the elephant, but that seems very harsh.
― calzino, Sunday, 3 July 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant to thread.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 4 July 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link