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For all the wonderful people out there who believe in the wonders of Nature as some pristine peaceloving symphony led by our beloved earth mother...

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/beh ... _2006.html

you forgot the part where elephants rape rhinos...

Hey Raum.thanks for the post. I put that site in my favorites .Looks like some good stuff in there. It said the elephants were attacking trucks as well. I wonder if there molesting them too. Sounds like not enough females too go around.

ack!

Mystery solved. Turns out like most enviornmental problems these days it can be linked to humans not realizing how what there doing effects things down the road.

The story in short....."The problem goes back 20 years to South Africa's largest conservation area, Kruger National Park. Kruger had too many elephants. In those days there was no way to relocate these large adults. So researchers decided to kill the adults and save the children, who were more easily transported to other parks.

The government veterinarian who originally approved the relocations, Dr. Hym Ebedes, said it was a good idea. He said that he considered the possibility that the young elephants might not adjust well, but that there was no other option.

The intentions may have been good but the program created a whole generation of traumatized orphans thrown together without any adults to teach them how to behave.

Years later those lonely orphans developed into troubled teen-agers. That's when the killings at Pilanesberg Park began. Like a police department facing a crime wave, the rangers photographed the murder scenes and put together rap sheets on the prime suspects, giving them each names".

Solution.......they brought in large adult males to teach the youngsters some manners. The full story in the 2 links

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/08/ ... 6894.shtml

http://www.und.ac.za/und/lesci/elephant ... titans.htm