@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
Post #1660203
2026-04-24 13:58 UTC
I was not able to find a source I find reliable, but there are many sites that suggest elephants recognize individual humans and recognize guns as threats, and can even recognize a gun pointed at them is a threat. So if someone they don’t know has a gun, and we’ll never know if he aimed one at an elephant for funsies, they may have identified him as a threat and defended themselves by killing him.
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@dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2026-04-24 17:33
The Daily Mail article says he’d killed elephants before, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯