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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPeople Have The Most Amazing Encounter With Wild Elephant
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I don't think I'd be as scared as they were. I would be in heaven. What an utterly magnificent being.
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People Have The Most Amazing Encounter With Wild Elephant (Original Post)
catbyte
Feb 2020
OP
Wild elephants can be very unpredictable/dangerous. That's especially true for the bulls/males.
abqtommy
Feb 2020
#2
I love the one person who keeps talking, telling everyone else to be quiet
TexasBushwhacker
Feb 2020
#3
What a fantastic encounter. Certainly one they'll all remember their whole life.
Fla Dem
Feb 2020
#6
tblue37
(68,344 posts)1. Could have gone worse:
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abqtommy
(14,118 posts)2. Wild elephants can be very unpredictable/dangerous. That's especially true for the bulls/males.
At least that's what my extensive reading tells me and so far I'm ok ok ok...
TexasBushwhacker
(21,121 posts)3. I love the one person who keeps talking, telling everyone else to be quiet
Niagara
(11,640 posts)4. I love these majestic creatures!
They forgot to bring the piano.
sinkingfeeling
(57,488 posts)5. I was as close to a large female as that just a couple of
months ago. That bull did nothing to threaten them. He wasn't flapping his ears nor trumpeting nor making a charge. He just walked down the road, as many wild elephants do in Africa.
Fla Dem
(27,490 posts)6. What a fantastic encounter. Certainly one they'll all remember their whole life.
And they call lions Kings of the Jungle.
