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Re: alleged elephant attack on vehicle
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:10 pm
by nan
it's also my opinion
panic... maybe... but he (her) had time to go away earlier... before the Ellie comes again and again
Re: alleged elephant attack on vehicle
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:12 pm
by Richprins
The lady was driving...for foreign viewers, the driver sits on the right-hand side in SA...nothing against female drivers, but she's a foreigner, maybe her first trip? Who knows?
Just another piece of a very unfortunate puzzle.
In the greater scheme of things, maybe the ellie died for a good cause, in a sense, to illustrate what can happen?
Re: alleged elephant attack on vehicle
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:16 pm
by Sprocky
Richprins wrote:In the greater scheme of things, maybe the ellie died for a good cause, in a sense, to illustrate what can happen?
You joking right??
Re: alleged elephant attack on vehicle
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:19 pm
by Mel
To me it looks as if they could even have gone forward and leave the scene altogether?
Re: alleged elephant attack on vehicle
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:24 pm
by Richprins
Not joking...
The message should get through to tourists via social media?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... s+car&sm=3
Re: alleged elephant attack on vehicle
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:32 pm
by nan
I continue to think... it will be better to have a lesson the first time we enter in a park... foreigners or not... for all the new visitors
they don't know how violent wild animals could be... and then they have to kill them
Re: alleged elephant attack on vehicle
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:35 pm
by Bushcraft
okie wrote:Certainly not in my opinion
As RP said , he did his best in trying to chase them away . He may have been in musth , as appears when you look very closely , but he does not seem " enraged " , at least not from the start
Thanks okie and agreed
I have had hundreds of ellies turn and give these signs, but have always reversed and left them in peace. Imagine if SANParks shot all of those.
Sad
Re: alleged elephant attack on vehicle
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:39 pm
by Sprocky
Yes, but then make an example of the people in the car doing wrong, instead of using the death of an innocent Elephant to spread the word!
Re: alleged elephant attack on vehicle
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:49 pm
by Richprins
I'm sort of trying to say the ellie didn't die in vain, Sprocks!
Re: alleged elephant attack on vehicle
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:00 pm
by okie
Richprins wrote:I'm sort of trying to say the ellie didn't die in vain, Sprocks!
Hmmm .... Not sure about that RP . We've seen 6 or 7 incidents ( or more ? ) with KNP ellies in 2013 , and this is the only one where someone ended up in hospital . If we do not see ANY incidents this year , then maybe it could mean that people had learnt something out of it at last , but , until we have hard and fast proof that people have indeed learnt , we cannot say he did not die in vain
Let's hope however , things do not get worse this year (
but I'm not holding my breath on that 