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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 30 2014, 04:14 AM (1,505 Views) | |
| kuri | Aug 30 2014, 04:14 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/earth/11060940/Fearless-elephant-calf-is-picked-up-and-headbutted-by-angry-buffalo-in-pictures.html click on the link for more photos
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| MightyKharza | Aug 30 2014, 08:51 PM Post #2 |
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I'm really surprised the adults didn't intervene. Perhaps it's the smell of predators that drives them crazy and not the distress of their young. The buffalo is not a carnivore, so it didn't trigger a defensive response. |
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| Molosser | Sep 2 2014, 03:59 AM Post #3 |
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Ursids, Canids, and amphycionids
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Poor elephant.. I wonder where was the mother, usually female elephants defend their young ferociously. |
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| spalea | Sep 2 2014, 06:32 AM Post #4 |
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That is hard to see a baby elephant to get caught and seriously wounded... But where was the pride ? |
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| mharper14 | Sep 2 2014, 07:09 PM Post #5 |
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The article said that the Elephant wasnt "seriously injured." They also said that they older, more mature elephants, saw this as a life lesson. The young Elephant came on too strong for the buffalo and whilst it looks dramatic it is something that every young elephant must go through apparently.. |
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| spalea | Sep 3 2014, 04:01 AM Post #6 |
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If the pride was near of the baby elephant, the buffalo would never touch it... "More mature elephant saw this as a life lesson": that is a personnal interpretation which binds only its author. And I'm not agree. |
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