Elephant attack on vehicle

[nan]

it's also my opinion

panic... maybe... but he (her) had time to go away earlier... before the Ellie comes again and again

[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?

[Sprocky]

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??

[Mel]

To me it looks as if they could even have gone forward and leave the scene altogether?

[Richprins]

Not joking...

The message should get through to tourists via social media?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... s+car&sm=3

[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

[Bushcraft]

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

[Sprocky]

Not joking...

The message should get through to tourists via social media?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... s+car&sm=3

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!

[Richprins]

I'm sort of trying to say the ellie didn't die in vain, Sprocks!

[okie]

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