Elephants

[Spalea]

(10-21-2019, 11:47 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(10-21-2019, 09:42 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:

(10-18-2019, 11:27 PM)Spalea Wrote: howard.cleland

ELEPHANTS AND CROCODILES : After bathing in the Sabie River an elephant encountered a large Croc whilst exiting the water and he showed his displeasure by thrashing his trunk from side to side. Bang on the head. Talk about wanting exclusivity to the river!

Towards a croc or hippo, maybe, but for the massive giraffe, it's not as simple as that: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-big-her...8#pid91028

Thing is, that while a giraffe can reach branches which an elephant can´t, it´s the elephant who can break the tree to reach any leaves it wants :) That demands mass and strength which then again demands respect and most probably also giraffes know, the when elephant means business, time to go :) Maybe giraffe could kick hard enough to hurt even an elephant, but for sure there is no terrestrial animal willing to be on the receiving end, when elephant gets really annoyed and charges.

Yes, elephants have the absolute supremacy among herbivores. On the video you showed, the elephant chasing the giraffes isn't even a fully grown one. A lot of herbivores are able to have a specificity towards trees, giraffe being able to reach the highest branch, gerenuk too specialized to eat some fruits or plants at 2 meters high and so on... But the elephants, by breaking some branchs or even by uprooting the trees, are the only wild animals able to significantly change their environment and as such, the others herbivore mammals bow in front of them... Reply