A tourist on safari filmed the moment an unlucky crocodile was trampled to death by a mother elephant after it stalked her calf at a river in Zambia.
In the video, the elephant violently attacks the crocodile with her trunk and head, before trampling the crocodile in the shallow river as a group of tourists watch.
The rare sighting was captured by Hans Henrik Haahr and has been shared by Latest Sightings, a YouTube channel that shares wildlife videos recorded across Africa.
“Elephants are generally peaceful and extremely caring animals; however, females can become very aggressive when protecting a young calf,” Latest Sightings
said.
“Hans said he had almost no words to describe the interaction, just that it was ‘shocking’.”
The trampling resulted in the death of the crocodile, it said.
View video here:https://youtu.be/aN2H11IZPBA
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In other news:
Trial of Nigerian separatist leader set to resume
The trial of the Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu is expected to resume in Abuja on Thursday.
Mr Kanu – the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (a pro-Biafra separatist group) – is charged with terrorism and treason.
He’s also charged with running an illegal company and publishing defamatory materials.
Tension rose in July when the authorities failed to present him before the court for trial.
Mr Kanu was first arrested in 2015, but he fled Nigeria two years later after the Nigerian army invaded his home. He was rearrested in June this year.
His lawyers say he’s been held in solitary confinement, in the custody of the Nigerian secret police.
He faces life imprisonment if found guilty.
Source: BBC
