Poacher tried to shoot rhinos but was trampled to death by elephants instead
An armed rhino poacher in South Africa’s Kruger National Park was trampled to death when a herd of elephants charged as he lined up a shot for the animals’ lucrative horns
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/poacher-who-tried-kill-rhinos-37663639Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
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Metal
A Nimona meme in the wild?
Metal!
My 2nd favorite animal saving my 1st favorite? Get fucked poacher. Haha! Yes!
/upliftingnews
*by trampling my least favorite
Animal solidarity. Love to see it.
Good.
Elephants provide a reason to hope and rebellions are built on hope
Therefore, rebellions are built on elephants!
Just like the diskworld
Good job elephants!
I love elephants.
I hope the animals and the environment weren't meaningfully damaged by his presence and subsequent death.
If anything, I imagine his thoroughly pureed corpse acted as a useful fertiliser for the near by flora.
One source mentioned lions grabbing an easy meal
Thank you, I really needed some good news today.
Elephants are such smart and plain cool animals.
Is there an article from a more reputable source than the Daily Star?
Confirmed on the South African National Parks website:
https://www.sanparks.org/news/illegal-incursion-into-the-kruger-national-park-ends-in-death-of-suspected-poacher
I want to believe though..
I searched briefly but found mostly sketchy reprint sources. One seems to say lions came along and ate some of the corpse as well, which good if so. But I didn't see a date of occurrence either. That's partly because I wasn't clicking on Agree to the cookies and conditions, though.
For anyone who didn’t read the article oh man it was a gem!
“For us it’s a big boost when the animals win and poachers lose. The Kruger is huge and we can’t be everywhere so it’s nice when the nellies give us some help!”
It goes on to mention other times animals have absolutely annihilated poachers! It was fabulous!
Why isn’t it more socially acceptable to discuss why, or more specifically who causes the horns to be valuable?
I feel like you didn’t read the article
Clever gir- splat!
Uplifting news!
Was about to post it there first but reread their rules. You can't celebrate any kind of human suffering there. Even if they totally had it coming 😓
Might be good content for a LeopardsAteMyFace community. It's probably closer to leopards than most other posts that'd end up there! Lol
Good thing I keep the world's smallest violin handy.
Always a bummer to hear that a literal piece of human refuse suffered such a tragic and horrific end.
Turnabout is fair play
Based Elephants.