Elephants Be Raping Rhinoceroses

Here's a pleasant image:

Still, it is not only the increasing number of these incidents that is causing alarm but also the singular perversity — for want of a less anthropocentric term — of recent elephant aggression. Since the early 1990’s, for example, young male elephants in Pilanesberg National Park and the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa have been raping and killing rhinoceroses; this abnormal behavior, according to a 2001 study in the journal Pachyderm, has been reported in ‘‘a number of reserves’’ in the region. In July of last year, officials in Pilanesberg shot three young male elephants who were responsible for the killings of 63 rhinos, as well as attacks on people in safari vehicles.

Add that one to the list of undignified ways to die.

(via Jay Pinkerton's Forum)

Here's a quiz:

Which one's an elephant ass, and which one's a rhinoceros ass?

Posted: Mon - October 9, 2006 at 08:07 PM

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