Elephant flings rocks at safari guide, forcing him to play goalkeeper

A young bull elephant in South Africa appears to have invented a game in which he uses his trunk to fling rocks at safari ...
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Enraged Elephant Grabs Man With Its Trunk And Smashes Him Around During Religious Festival

Well, I may be reconsidering my dream of playing with elephants in Thailand after this. While I always envisioned elephants as gentle giants, I sometimes forget that they are fully capable of killing ...
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Grandfather Is Trampled to Death by Elephant While Reportedly Protecting His 2 Grandchildren

The victim was reportedly a 59-year-old man from South Africa Ian Walton/Getty A tourist has been trampled to death by an elephant while visiting a national park in South Africa. The victim was ...
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There’s a wrinkle — or many — in the story behind an elephant’s trunk

Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers. This all ...