Planet of the Pachyderms: Elephant rampage levels restaurant at Khao Yai

[Rhys]

Robert Hienlen would be impressed.

[cracker1]

Could it be that the Thai Elephants have decided ti "Fight Back" against the continued encroachment on their natural habitat ?

[ggt]

The pachyderms are mad as hell...and are not going to take it anymore...

[Chicog]

looks to me like the elephant is in musk. do you see that black line running up from the mouth?

My thoughts also, a Rutting Tusker!

[Dibbler]

Normal behaviour for a male elephant in musth (heat). The problem arises when humans get in the way of their day out in the forest! The park should educate visitors (and staff) to clear out of the way quickly when such an animal approaches. The next thing we will read is when someone is injured because they stood in the way of the elephant trying to "shoo" it away.

[lemonjelly]

Nature hits back. At least they didn't immediately attack the creature with hoes and machetes like some angry mob of villagers (ever watched a 'Frankenstein' movie?) routinely do when a hungry pachyderm comes out of the pitiful remains of a degraded forest and destroys their fields - which they planted in the immediate vicinity of the elephant's habitat in the first place, often enough encroaching on it, too.

Mary Shelly never mentioned any elephants; that was Rudyard Kipling.

[surangw]

horny elephants this time of year

[halloween]

Everone's a food critic.