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Post by OldGreenUrsusLoxodon on Feb 29, 2020 10:21:23 GMT
Post accounts of elephants meeting up with rhinoceros and hippopotamus.
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Post by apexking17 on Mar 9, 2020 19:13:30 GMT
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Post by apexking17 on Mar 9, 2020 19:15:58 GMT
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Post by brobear on Mar 9, 2020 19:43:05 GMT
Some years back ( within the last decade ) a team of biologists and other animal experts decided that one location in Africa was beginning to have too large of a population. So, they decided to relocate some of the herd. They picked out young sub-adults that they figured were old enough to survive and start a new herd. These elephants were then relocated to a location unknown to them.
Things did not go well. It was like turning a bus-load of teenagers loose in a small town. The young bulls went on a killing spree; for the fun of it. They were killing critically endangered rhinos. Somehow, after a great loss of the already rare rhinos, the problem was solved.
What these "experts" learned... subadult elephants are taught "jungle edicate" by their mothers. They were still in school.
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Post by apexking17 on Mar 9, 2020 21:11:45 GMT
Oh yeah Here is the account with the link
Elephants kill endangered rhino
Clashes between elephants and rhinos are not uncommon
Aggressive young orphaned elephants are reported to have killed 36 rhinos, including rare black ones, in a game park in eastern South Africa.
The rhinos were ripped to pieces
Vet Dave Cooper
According to conservationists, the young elephants have been provoking confrontations with the rhinos since they were introduced to Hluhluwe-Umofolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal.
The elephants were orphaned when their parents were culled in the early 1990s in an effort to control the elephant population in Kruger National Park.
As they have matured, so they have become more aggressive.
Attacks on rhinos have been growing over the past two years, with 13 killed, including two black rhino, in the last five months of 1999, South African newspapers report.
Spate of killings
A park ranger said he had witnessed an elephant knocking a rhino over, trampling it and driving a tusk through its chest.
Conservation vet Dave Cooper said: "There was a spate of killings, and it was as if they were purposeful. The rhinos were ripped to pieces."
An endangered species - especially in Hluhluwe-Umofolozi Park
He said that elephant and rhino routinely clash in nature "but this sort of behaviour, when elephant actively go out and chase rhino, is totally abnormal".
Fellow conservationist Tony Conway said similarly aggressive behaviour had also been seen in Pilanesberg National Park in Northwest Province - another home for the Kruger Park orphaned elephants.
However, the killings at Pilanesberg stopped when six adult elephant bulls were introduced to the park. The young ones' behaviour patterns returned to normal under their influence.
Officials at Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park have asked Kruger Park to send it 10 adult bulls in the hope that their presence will have the same effect on the young elephants there.
The park's top attractions are its rhino - both the white or square-lipped rhino and the rarer black or hooked-lipped rhino.
There are only about 1,000 black rhino left in South Africa.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/642731.stm
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Post by brobear on May 6, 2020 10:37:01 GMT
www.tapatalk.com/groups/animalsversesanimals/indian-rhinoceros-besting-asian-elephant-accounts--t377.html Displacement of rhino by elephant If body size alone affects the outcome of encounters, then elephants should invariably displace rhinos. This was not the case. While elephants supplanted rhinos 71% (n=113) of the time, gender played a prominent role. Elephant females were dominant in 94% of 54 interactions. Conversely, rhino females displaced elephants in only 14% of interactions (n=111), whereas male rhinos were victorious in 63%.
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