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Elephants and Rhinos Interactions

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09-26-2014, 08:37 PM

(09-26-2014, 08:49 AM)'peter' Wrote: I remember a BBC-documentary on aggressive young male elephants attacking buffalo's and rhino's in a reserve in South Africa. Happened quite some years ago. The cause was no adult bulls in the reserve. This resulted in a lack of role models, angry young men and numerous dead animals. They tried to transfer an adult bull to the reserve, but it proved too difficult. In the end, it was decided that one of the rangers had to act as an older bull elephant (...). He, his collegue and their Landrover had some close encounters, but the effect was quite impressive.

The lesson is destruction of a system or a population has much more consequences than those seen at first sight. It's about the entire system and the social consequences.

Same with us. What do you think will happen when we remove everyone over, say, 40 from our society? Why is it angry young man get their chance in societies that have been largely destroyed?

I remember a study about rats. Colonies are destroyed every now and then. It was announced by the loss of gate-keepers, a sharp rise of infants killed and groups leaving before the fall.

Does that ring any bells? Let me see. Pom, pom, pom. Yes, I remember. In the western world, there are economies. They want to grow. When it doesn't happen and the ever present bubbles explode, governments have no option but to cut. They always target the most crucial parts first. Referring to education, law and order, public transport, health and defence too. This, of course, results in more inequality, poverty and more crime (there is a direct connection). We've able to prevent total collapses so far, but one day a collapse can't be prevented. It's part of the game. Seen it before? Pom, pom, pom. Yes. Rome.

I think we can learn from animals and biologists studying social systems for years. Packer and Rabinowitz for President, I propose. How get them there?

 



That is the link I posted. The young bulls just needed a big boss to put them in check. 
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Elephants and Rhinos Interactions - sanjay - 09-22-2014, 07:20 PM
RE: Large male elephant attacked female black rhino - Pckts - 09-26-2014, 08:37 PM



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