Strange stories related to elephants

Man sleeps with 60 elephants for 17 years.

A Kenyan man has slept with 60 elephants for the past 17 years and treats them like his own children. He is Benjamin and has raised the elephants as his own children. After taking care of the elephants to make them healthier, every day in addition to taking care of his elephants, Benjamin goes around the reserve and looks for sick elephants.

Benjamin was made into a BBC documentary with a message of elephant conservation.

According to statistics, every 15 minutes in the world, an elephant is killed. In the next 10 years, 50% of African elephants may disappear due to poaching. Ivory is one of the products that criminals "watch" to hunt.

Baby elephant fasted and guarded for many days next to mother elephant that was shot.

The mother elephant was shot in the thigh bone by a poacher, the baby elephant did not eat or drink and stood guard for many days to protect the mother lying in one place. That is the 18-month-old baby elephant Zongoloni in Kenya, he was found standing guard for his mother who was shot.

The baby elephant guarded its mother's body for hours.

For several days, the baby elephant had not eaten or moved, keeping watch over its dying mother. It chased away any animal that came near her. After being discovered, the baby elephant was taken to one of three rehabilitation centers in Kenya under the Orphan Project.

A professional South African hunter has died after being crushed by an elephant during a hunting trip in Gwai, Zimbabwe. Botha and his team came across a herd of three elephants during the hunt.

Unlucky hunter.

While he was aiming at the elephants, suddenly the fourth elephant rushed forward and lifted Botha up with its trunk. At that moment, the fourth elephant was shot dead by another hunter. The elephant collapsed on Botha, killing him.

Mother elephant tramples newborn baby elephant.

This "paradoxical" scene happened at Nong Nooch center, Chonburi, Thailand. After giving birth, the large mother elephant, despite being tied up, still used her feet to kick the weak baby lying right at her feet.

Although the center staff tried to rush in to get the baby elephant out, they were kicked away. It even gave its poor baby a painful kick in the face.

It is known that this 16-year-old mother elephant had to go through labor pains that lasted for 3 days, and on October 29, she gave birth to her first child. But instead of turning back to comfort and protect her child, the mother elephant acted in a scary way. The manager of the elephant center, Patthanan Khantipsukphan, said that this mother elephant had a difficult time giving birth. Maybe she acted like that because she was in pain and panic.
4-ton elephant swept away 1,000 km by flood but still survives.

Rescue the elephant in distress.

In a rare natural disaster in northeastern India, a 4-ton female elephant separated from her herd during the floods in northeastern India in late June. The animal is believed to have traveled 1,000 km from India to Bangladesh.

He was trapped for weeks in a sick, exhausted state in a flooded area and nearly drowned from exhaustion.
Bikash Brahma, head of India's National Forest Conservation Authority, said a team of three experts had been sent to help people in Jamalpur district care for the elephant.

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