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Croc attacks Elephant ...
19 October 2011, 07:32
SteveGlCroc attacks Elephant ...
... but went after the wrong one, I'd say.
Video clip.19 October 2011, 21:55
JCS271And that explains why they always send the women down to the river for water!
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19 October 2011, 22:15
HizzieDon't think that croc survived to ever pull that stunt again. Squish.
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19 October 2011, 22:54
Cross LNot the first time-
http://boop.org/jan/justso/elephant.htmat least one other instance known--story at link.
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20 October 2011, 02:11
RobinOLocksleyI have seen a couple of similar videos where crocs try to pull similar stunts. I wonder if they have any perspective of size and strength of their quarry.They just see a dangling trunk in the water and go for it or what?
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20 October 2011, 04:19
VemoNote to self- Dont take a whiz near the river!
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20 October 2011, 04:29
meteIt's true , it's true !
As a little kid I learned the story of how the elephant got his long trunk !!
22 October 2011, 02:34
376 steyrThat croc must surely have not realized what that was attached to.
23 October 2011, 05:55
DuckearWonder what would have happened if he had grabbed one of the juveniles?
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23 October 2011, 06:03
Frostbitquote:
Originally posted by Duckear:
Wonder what would have happened if he had grabbed one of the juveniles?
Andrew (fairgame) and Richard Bell-Cross have a story about that.
27 October 2011, 01:27
OldHandgunHunterquote:
Originally posted by Vemo:
Note to self- Dont take a whiz near the river!
I wasn't quite whizzing in the river, but I was once standing on the bank of the Lugenda in Northern Mozambique, back to the water, trying to decipher some native writing on a tree, when a 12 footer slipped out of the water behind me with me in mind for lunch. I caught movement as a reflection in my sunglasses and, when I spun quickly around, the Croc decided that discretion was in order and turned back to the water, although my handgun was several yards away and I was all but helpless if he had come on. Scary!
I never did decipher the writing on the tree, but I now think that it was probably "Beware of the Crocodiles"
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