Posted on 07/27/2016 1:45:07 PM PDT by JoeProBono
SOUTH LUANGWA NATIONAL PARK, Zambia, - An elephant in Zambia demonstrated his ability to keep a cool head under pressure when he escaped being made into a meal by 14 female lions.
The video, filmed by Jesse Nash on a tour with Normal Carr Safaris at the Chinzombo Safari Camp in Zambia, shows a group of 14 lionesses descending on a young elephant. Advertisement
The elephant, keeping calm, swats at the lionesses with his trunk while making his way to a nearby body of water.
The pachyderm reaches the water, but only a handful of the predators decide to stay on shore while the more daring members of the pride give pursuit in the shallows -- including one lioness riding piggy-back on the elephant's rear.
The elephant flees further into the water, causing the lioness to jump off its back, but the big cats continue to stalk the elephant.
The video ends with the elephant, finally fed up, charging the lionesses and causing him to flee.
The safari tour group said the elephant survived the encounter and earned the nickname Hercules.
PS I don’t worship nature. Man is in charge, not nature.
http://www.earthtouchnews.com/videos/wildlife-raw-uncut/lions-eat-elephant-alive/
That was difficult to watch. Poor elephant.
I know it’s the balance of nature, but I could not have done that video.
And it looks like a very young elephant, too, so I guess they thought they could take it.
I wonder where the rest of its family is.
Very social animals, so I’m surprised that he was separated.
What? Perhaps you think there should be some police force arresting these lions.
Again, it isn’t cruelty...the lions aren’t murdering the baby elephant. Unlike that reprehensible 2-legged species who kills for the criminal fun of it, these lions are killing for a meal...to sustain themselves, as nature intends.
Man is accustomed to interfering with the way God intends nature to work.
Wish I could uh shot the Lil feller and at least put him out of his misery...
By the way, feline lives matter too.
Tell me the biblical support for cruelty of predation in nature.
It is estimated that over 250 people are killed by lions every year. -
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According to the National Geographic Channel documentary Elephant Rage, some 500 people are killed by elephant attacks each year.
In many mammal species, including elephants, young animals leave their native herd/ population/ location. This is called ‘natal dispersal’, and it may often be biased towards males. It is a mechanism that has evolved over the millennia to avoid (a) inbreeding with relatives and (b) competition with kin.
I don’t think the dying elephant cared much if they were doing it to eat.
And yes, Lions have been known to kill for fun.
Know what happens when not enough wealth westerners fly down to shoot African lions? They kill them in mass hunts to keep the population in check. They had to execute a bunch of them recently because all that Cecil crap decimated the number of hunters going down. So there were too many lions and they had to kill a bunch in a mass hunt.
At least when it is done via safari then the locals get money from the hunters and everyone wins.
That is what I was thinking. I hope that little elephant holds a grudge!
According to the people who did the video, that elephant was very very young and lost.
Just fyi.
All apex predators kill for sport and even to teach their young....the liberals will say this is not true of course, as they load up the predators here in the US for rewilding.
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