Elephant Safari: Bizarre Incident On Busy Highway

(Blogger tells of a strange incident some years back where on the way back from a safari, they came across a baby elephant lying dead right in the middle of the road after being knocked down by a speeding car. Now read on…)

We were to later confirm that the small baby elephant was dead and had been knocked down by a Land Rover that must have been going at a very high speed. A few meters away was the badly mangled wreckage of the old Land Rover model (this was in the 70s).

Next to the wreckage was a huge black form that we could not immediately recognize. The "black thing" appeared to be moving. However as our safari vehicle got closer to the scene we could tell exactly what it was and we were dumb struck. It was a full-grown female elephant. We could tell that she was furious from the noise she was making. Her huge front paw was reaching through a gap in the wreckage and attempting to crash the driver of the vehicle that had knocked her baby dead. The man was already bleeding and appeared lifeless but the furious elephant just couldn't stop.

To this day it is not clear whether the driver died from injuries sustained from the collision, or was badly injured and ended up being crashed to death by an irate mother elephant. No post mortem was done and it was assumed that the middle aged African man died from the accident. But judging from the way I saw the huge foot of that elephant reaching out to crash the driver, chances are pretty high that the guy got killed by the irate elephant.

The really amazing thing in this sad tale is the fact that the Elephant was intelligent enough to tell that the death of her baby had been caused by the human inside the twisted wreckage of the Land Rover.


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