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Karnataka in Southern India is home to maximum number of elephants and in conjunction with Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the largest population of Asiatic Elephants exists in the Nilgiri Biosphere area. This has led to a lot of man-animal conflict, last year a forest officer was killed by a tusker in Nagarhole. So, India’s first Elephant translocation project has been conceived between Karnataka and Chattisgarh. It is to ease the pressure on Karnataka and repopulate the once very luscious elephant corridor of central India.

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/pets-and-environment/300316/bengaluru-too-many-jumbos-relocate.html

Not sure how I feel about this because elephants have set routes and set water holes which has been passed onto them by their mothers and grandmothers, so don’t know how a new area will affect them. Plus, Chattisgarh is a state with poor conservation record because of naxalism and they are not shy of targetting elephants.
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Elephant drinking at the Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Elephant drinking with the (spectacular) noise that it makes... One question: doesn't an elephant drink with its trunk ? The water seems to be sucked up, but partially, and then brought to the mouth. To sum up: everything go through the palate.

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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!

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(10-18-2019, 11:57 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
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( This post was last modified: 10-24-2019, 09:57 PM by Shadow )

(10-21-2019, 10:12 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:
(10-18-2019, 11:57 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, that when an elephant means business, time to go :) Maybe a 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 an elephant gets really annoyed and charges.




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(10-22-2019, 12:17 AM)Shadow Wrote:
(10-21-2019, 10:12 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:
(10-18-2019, 11:57 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...
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Dereck Joubert: " Enough dexterity to pluck a blade of grass, enough sheer power to rip branches from a tree. A truly remarkable appendage … and a truly remarkable creature.  ".

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Mark Drury: " Bull Elephant in Musth

A full grown elephant bull in musth is often an awe-inspiring sight, as he muscles his testosterone-fueled way through the mating hierarchy. Musth is the Sanskrit word for intoxicated and is pronounced `moost’ but has been translated into English as `must’. It best describes the hormonal condition that all elephant bulls will experience annually, once they have reached adulthood. Younger bulls in their first musth are often described as unsure of their new found powers, as the testosterone charges through their systems, emboldening them and filling them with the confidence needed to challenge older males for the right to mate, hence the description `intoxicated with lust!’ ".


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Water time in the Amboseli Park...

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( This post was last modified: 11-09-2019, 12:02 PM by BorneanTiger )

I mentioned here that a camel-kill site dating back about 6,000 years had been found in the area of Baynunah, in the Western Region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and that the Arabian Peninsula used to have fauna that made it more closely resemble Africa.

In another part of this region, fossilised footprints of Stegotetrabelodon dating back 7 million years had been discovered in "Mleisa 1": https://www.futura-sciences.com/planete/...ois-36965/

Credit: Mauricio Antón

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( This post was last modified: 11-09-2019, 12:13 AM by BorneanTiger )

See this: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-woolly-...5#pid94225
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Herd of elephants through the landscape and seen from above...

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( This post was last modified: 11-12-2019, 12:43 AM by Sully )

Dealing with elephants in sri lanka

Several different methods attempted over the past 70 years to mitigate human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka have proved ineffective, experts say.
With more than 300 elephants and 70 people killed in 2018 alone, and a third of the island effectively elephant country, Sri Lanka is mired in an escalating crisis trying to balance its developmental and conservation needs.
Conservationists have called for designing development programs that account for elephant impact assessments, and abandoning translocations and other control methods in favor of electric fencing that has proven more effective.

https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/less-f...-conflict/
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Friendship...

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