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

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[–] 9 points 11 hours ago

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!

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  • [–] 8 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    Why isn’t it more socially acceptable to discuss why, or more specifically who causes the horns to be valuable?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago

    Based Elephants.

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  • [–] 64 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    He was quickly over run and the elephants trampled him into the earth and all that we found was basically a very large blood stain around the clothing he was in.

    Metal

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  • [–] 59 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    My 2nd favorite animal saving my 1st favorite? Get fucked poacher. Haha! Yes!

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    Animal solidarity. Love to see it.

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  • [–] 19 points 21 hours ago

    I love elephants.

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  • [–] 24 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

    Elephants provide a reason to hope and rebellions are built on hope

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  • [–] 13 points 20 hours ago

    Elephants are such smart and plain cool animals.

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  • [–] 31 points 23 hours ago
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    Good job elephants!

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago

    Always a bummer to hear that a literal piece of human refuse suffered such a tragic and horrific end.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    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 😓

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  • [–] 15 points 23 hours ago

    Thank you, I really needed some good news today.

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  • [–] 16 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    I hope the animals and the environment weren't meaningfully damaged by his presence and subsequent death.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago

    Turnabout is fair play

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  • [–] 4 points 19 hours ago

    Good thing I keep the world's smallest violin handy.

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  • [–] 10 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

    Is there an article from a more reputable source than the Daily Star?

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  • [–] 3 points 21 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 22 hours ago

    Clever gir- splat!

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