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.
Villagers get a rare chance to kill an Elephant
These two gents were calling elk in the Saddle Hills south of working when this big guy slipped in on the caller.
The shooter spotted the bear 8 yards from the caller and dropped him with 5 shots out of his 338 Rem Mag. Farmers in the area knew about the Bear but weren’t able to track after it had killed 3 horses, 5 cows, 13 sheep and a pen full of chickens on several different homesteads in the area.
Fish and wildlife had bear traps set up in the area but notice on surveillance video that when ever a he would enter his hump would hit the top of the culvert trap slowing him enough that the trap door would wack him on the head before he was all the way in check out the scar tissue on his face.
Bear weighed in just under 1300 pounds and would have stood 11 ¾ feet tall on its hind legs.
Interesting look at what happens to an elephant carcass after death. This video shows a number of scavengers partake in a little snacking after the elephant dies. Sometimes DAYS after the elephant dies. Not for the faint-of-heart.
Check out this harrowing encounter with a couple of moose on a bike path.
Check out these cool photos of a black whitetail fawn. Supposedly in Beamsville. Ontario, perhaps? Very cool pics.
This is another example of melanism. Melanism is the opposite of albinism. Where albinism is a condition where the animals has less than normal pigmentation, melanism is an condition where the animal has more than normal pigmentation or melanin.
Check out this post of a full grown black whitetail buck.
Here are some posts of some beautiful albino animals including twin deer.
