Posted on 02/15/2006 5:01:40 PM PST by blam
One of the documentary channels has a one-hour special on this subject. When pi--ed, these guys can do some damage.
I saw that one: "The Dark Side of Elephants". Very good show, and awe-inspiring.
Also, it shows how *fast* elephants are when they're really motivated. There were several clips of elephants lunging forward or jerking to the side, and it looked like time-lapse photography -- one instant they were in one position, and then *flick* they were in another.
It also described many elephant attacks on people, and said that instead of just stomping them flat (which also happens), a really angry elephant will simply use its strength to literally pull people apart into numerous pieces... One trainer who survived an attack showed the enormous scars he has from where the elephant shoved a tusk entirely through his body -- in two different places.
They're also almost silent when want to sneak up on someone, can run faster than a race horse, and post "sentries" when they raid a village. They can communicate with each other across several miles, using subsonic communication that travels very far, but is below the range of human hearing.
"Her study showed that a lack of older bulls to lead by example had created gangs of hyper-aggressive young males with a penchant for violence towards each other and other species."
Sounds like the same problem as in our crime ridden inner cities. No father.
This is the thanks we get for giving them decent jobs in circuses and movies and plying them with peanuts? Sounds like they've unionized.
I know that feeling...
Maybe they just figured out they like the squishy feeling between their toes.
"...gangs of hyper-aggressive young males with a penchant for violence towards each other and other species."
So... what I'm hearing is that elephants are Moslem? Who knew.
oh, man...you better hope they can't read.
Elephants have no tolerance for sarcasm
I'm afraid, I hope Africa is a long way from my house.
Jumanji !
That's the one I saw too. I was seriously suprised at their speed of movement too...not only just running.
I'll bet donkeys are hamburger under the feet of angry elephants...even ANGRY, DRUNK donkeys.
They're finally fed up with all those John Merrick jokes. I knew it would come to this.
Funny, I've come to the same conclusion.
Ah, but this is not a new story, it's very old. Go to your library, and find "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling. Read his short story, "Letting in the Jungle." He wrote the story of elephants destroying villages in 1894.
Maybe the GOP should take a lesson from this ... .
Kick some you know what!
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