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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[–] 65 points 1 month 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.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 41 points 1 month ago

    Animal solidarity. Love to see it.

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    [–] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago*

    Good job elephants!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    I love elephants.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    Thank you, I really needed some good news today.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Elephants are such smart and plain cool animals.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month 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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  • Clever gir- splat!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

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

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    Turnabout is fair play

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Based Elephants.

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