The elephants that came to dinner

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24 June 2018, 01:49

jdollar

The elephants that came to dinner

This is a great video taken at Mfuwe Lodge in Zambia-ENJOY!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NdTII_unZSA

24 June 2018, 02:44

boarkiller

Until someone gets hurt...

" Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins.
When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar.
Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan
PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move...

Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies...
Only fools hope to live forever
“ Hávamál”

24 June 2018, 02:51

DLS

That's a very neat video. The elephants seem quite well behaved. Yes, it could all go to hell quickly, but I think it'd take a stupid act by someone to get the shit started...

Or a bull in musth!

24 June 2018, 02:59

MopaneMike

Or worse.... Getting them so used to humans poachers can literally walk up to them. Then they will simply be another statistic and those people will be wondering how come baby Weddingtons family never drops in anymore??

24 June 2018, 03:18

DuggaBoye

All's well -
that ends well

That which ends differently-
well not so much

25 June 2018, 09:45

Nakihunter

Cool

I have had a similar experience in India.

My late friend Mark Davidar used to feed the wild elephants with Jack fruit. The big tuskers used to come right up to the verandah - just a meter or two from us!

This one was about 10 meters from us.

25 June 2018, 14:58

shootaway

I get a bit turned off by seeing wild animals near human buildings-especially modern structures.Simliar to the hyena and Kudu picture recently posted, the thing I found gross was not the kill but the animals in the restaurant.

25 June 2018, 17:54

Opus1

quote:
Originally posted by shootaway:

I get a bit turned off by seeing wild animals near human buildings-especially modern structures. Similar to the hyena and Kudu picture recently posted, the thing I found gross was not the kill but the animals in the restaurant.

Yep - This is a continual battle with tourism operators. They habitualize animals to humans and the inevitable happens. The animals then begin to cause so much trouble they wind up being culled. God forbid that a tourist or local is injured or killed - which is happening with frequency. But the tourism operators could care less, they are only after tips at any cost. The tourists love it, the tour operators make more money and the animals wind up paying the price all because of stupidity and greed.