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Conservationist escapes elephant attack August 15 2007 at 06:32PM A renowned conservationist recounted on Wednesday how he and his friends narrowly escaped a deathly attack by an enraged bull elephant. Lawrence Anthony and his two friends were on a night drive at Thula Thula Game Reserve near Empangeni in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday night when the animal attacked them. "He came at us from nowhere in a full blooded charge, hammering the front of the Land Rover station wagon and driving us backwards into the bush for about twenty yards," said Anthony. "Then he backed off, swung around to the left, and before I could move he charged at the passenger side crushing the doors and smashing the vehicle right over onto its side." Anthony said his two passengers fell on top of him and the animal attacked again. "He charged again, and with incredible fury literally smashed the vehicle over onto its roof popping out the windows and windscreen, and then he continued to pound at us until the Landy fell back on its side. "He was trumpeting and stomping around completely enraged, but thankfully he had driven the passenger compartment into a thicket and he couldn't reach us." Anthony said he managed to get his pistol and fired shots into the air. He screamed at the elephant until it backed off. "I then started talking calmly to him as he came back and reached in at us with his trunk, and then his ears came down and he backed off and stood there looking at us," said Anthony. He said a herd of elephants arrived and mulled around. Eventually the elephant walked off with them. Anthony managed to fix the radio, which had been smashed, and called the rangers who came to fetch them. "Amazingly, no one was hurt." He said the elephant would not be shot as he and his friends had invaded its territory. "No, this is his territory and it was my fault. He was in Musth (a mating condition where a bull elephant's testosterone levels can increase by 50 times) and I should have been more careful," he said. Anthony, a South African born in Durban, is the founder of The Earth Organisation. He is best known for rescuing the Baghdad Zoo during the Coalition forces' invasion of Baghdad. - Sapa Kathi kathi@wildtravel.net 708-425-3552 "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." | ||
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I wonder if I should book an elephant hunt in nowhere, since so many of the elephant featured in these reports seem to come from there? Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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I guess I am in luck, because I will be hunting Nowhere in Africa next year... ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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You guys should examine Nowhere Safaris' website at ultimatesafari@nowheresafaris.com | |||
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You guys should have a comedy act on the road to nowhere. ------------------------------- Will / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor, GOA, NAGR _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped. “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ If anything be of note, let it be he was once an elephant hunter, hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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Wasn't that a movie with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?  ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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As I read these stupid puns I thought this thread was going down hill - now I know it's going nowhere. "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Didn't they film that on location in the middle of nowhere? ------------------------------- Will / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor, GOA, NAGR _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped. “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ If anything be of note, let it be he was once an elephant hunter, hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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 ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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I am the same, hopefully we have similar luck in the area "Let me start off with two words: Made in America" | |||
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Well this thread has nowhere to go but up. TerryR | |||
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"I then started talking calmly"  "Science only goes so far then God takes over." | |||
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If you need directions ask Dorothy Lamour for a date. She told me I was on the "Road to Nowhere." ------------------------------- Will / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor, GOA, NAGR _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped. “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ If anything be of note, let it be he was once an elephant hunter, hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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Seloushunter  Nec Timor Nec Temeritas | |||
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"now we're getting nowhere" Curly Howard TerryR | |||
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Nowhere in Kathi's report does it say what the Granolans in question were saying calmly to the Dumbo from out of Nowhere. Out of Africa the Sequel...."Out of Nowhere" | |||
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