Elephants and Rhinos Interactions

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 A wonderful moment is captured by amateur photographer couple Louis Kok and his wife Marthie When a musth (testosterone-fueled) Large male elephant attacked female rhino which was protecting its calf. It charged at the rhino and flipped it onto its back. The giant elephant roll the female rhino around and crush it under its weight. Female rhino managed to get back up, but she died due to the injuries days later.

Pictures

The bull musth elephant charged and tossed the female black rhino, she flipped a side due to extreme push by elephant.

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The elephant put all his weight on the female rhino as she was trying to protect her calf.

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Elephant has only one tusk, but he was very aggressive you can she the female rhino laid on ground

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You can see the sign of musth near his ear as he continued attacking the rhino

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Musth is a condition during which bull elephants experience a huge rise in reproductive hormones - testosterone levels can reach up to 50 times higher than normal. This makes them extremely aggressive.

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Female rhino tried hard to stand up but the bull elephant keep rolling her for large distance, this injured her seriously

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The rhino calf was watching all these incident behind the bush, he was helpless and can not help her mother

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The rhino calf tried to search her mother when the bull elephant stop the attack.

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The calf remained in the vicinity for some time, circling her mother and attempting repeatedly to help her up

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Female rhino was groaning in pain due to serious injury, calf was trying to push her mother so that she stand up.

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Really very said, the female rhino manage to stand up after 2 hours from but sadly she died next day due to the injury by bull elephant.

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