African Elephants killing rhinos

[Indurrago]

I had heard of incidents where Elephants in musk(very aroused state) would kill rhinoceroses but I never knew about the details which would lead up to something. I had just watched program about a park in Africa where this problem was getting out of hand so they brought in some older bull elephants to keep the young ones in line. Some of the pictures of the poor dead rhinos showed that some those elephants were quite merciless when in musk. Another interesting part is how they transport the bull elephants and quite quickly. The solution seemed to work but only time will time as they always say but hopefully some rhinos will be saved. Oh, if your wondering about animals' statistics:the rhinos are around 2 tons(they did not' give a estimated height or specify which species) while a bull African elephant can grow up to 11.5 feet or around 4 meters and 6 tons(roughly around 5443 kilograms or 2 to 3 dozen American football players). Overall it was more informative than anything else and surprisingly not that exciting but interesting to say the least. One last note, I think the bull elephants even with musk get along better with each other than Sports "finest heroes" do. Good night, all.

[Canadian_Hockey_Hater]

wow... thats crazy. i never heard of an elephant doing that, an interesting piece of info to know. yeah... the sports players and the sports fans can (and usually do) get really violent... worse then an elephant and a rhino lol

[Indurrago]

Yeah, it really does happen but its usually the young bulls(think young teenage football-players) who kill it. The older bulls keep the younger ones in line so rhinos are pretty safe as long as they're there. Unlike the sports fans the two animals actually fight over reasonable things like water or food(something most sports fan don't have trouble getting). And sports fans usually riot because the lame excuse of "their team" lost that day or some ref. made a bad call. This is kinda out of topic but since we're talking about animals I always found it funny how those teams would use animals as mascots while they have absolutely no knowledge or respect for those animals. If they ever met an "living" example of their mascot face to face, they would learn those two things faster then could get a ball from one side to field to another.

[blackdog4444]

I've heard of such behavior. There was a program on Animal Planet one time. It described the behavior and speculated about the triggers for it. In the mean time, though, they kept a watchful eye on the rhinos so they wouldn't be driven out of the area that the people were studying.