Outdoor Oddities » Elephant http://www.outdooroddities.com Strange, but true, stories of outdoor oddities Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:49:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Man-Eating Elephants in India? http://www.outdooroddities.com/2011/02/19/man-eating-elephants-in-india/ http://www.outdooroddities.com/2011/02/19/man-eating-elephants-in-india/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:42:55 +0000 Joe Beitler http://www.outdooroddities.com/?p=1191 Another story on Elephants. No more forests in India? Its causing wild Elephants (and Tigers) to live very close to humans. When you reduce the natural food supply of the wild animals, they start looking at humans, instead of for food, as food.

Check out the ABCNews video here.

The theme of the story?  Humans don’t pose very much resistance.

Elephants are killingandeating humans in India

Villagers get a rare chance to kill an Elephant

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elephant versus crocodile

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