Dangerous Animal Incidents

[Flutterby]

Probably...if it's dark.

[Lisbeth]

[Richprins]

It happens more often than one would think...

[Peter Betts]

Poor lion

Poor Don English having to make that decision

[Peter Betts]

Lions and Leopards go through human settlements all day long IF the Gate is left open ..I rather like it at places like Tamboti where there has always been an opemn Gate and no guard ..Someone left the gate open ...and the lion had to suffer the supreme price to keep man 'Safe'

[Peter Betts]

The car lost a piece

I wonder how this is considered by the insurance companies

Not a Problem I had ellie damage in 1978 in Kruger ..They paid the R 380

[Lisbeth]

[Richprins]

Elephant kills River Lodge guide
A field guide was killed by an elephant at the Thornybush River Lodge yesterday morning.
2 hours ago


The victim, Sheldon Hooper (27), was working as a field guide at the lodge and has been employed by the Thornybush Collection (Inzalo Pty LTD) since January 2019.

According to Trevor Jordan, Thornybush Nature Reserve warden, Sheldon and a co-worker were conducting routine inspections of the electrified fence when coming across a family group of elephants that had somehow gained access to the lodge surrounds despite the electrified boundary fence.



The co-worker managed to escape while Sheldon was unfortunately not so lucky.

Jordan said that understandably, this is a very difficult and heartbreaking time for the family and staff at the Thornybush River Lodge.

More details will follow in Thursday’s Lowvelder

https://lowvelder.co.za/700446/elephant ... dge-guide/

[Alf]

Very sad news

[Klipspringer]

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south- ... uger-park/?

A young man who worked as a guide at the Thornybush River Lodge has died after an elephant gouged his leg and chest on Tuesday.

Sheldon Hooper, 27, was in the field doing routine inspections at the lodge, which is inside the Kruger National Park, when he and a co-worker came across a family of nine elephants.

The herd, made up of three adults of six adolescents, were seemingly spooked by the two men and attacked. The elephant had somehow gained access to the lodge's surrounds, despite an electrified boundary fence.

Thornybush Nature Reserve CEO Trevor Jordan said it was an awful accident.

“He was about 20m from the elephants and somehow one of them came at him fast. They were both supposed to see each other, and in all likelihood he got close to a six-month-old calf,” he said.

“The elephant tusked him on the knee and just above his heart. It left two holes and he was bleeding profusely. The man who was with him ran to get help. The elephant left the scene. He succumbed to the wounds within 20 minutes.

“Paramedics came as soon as they could and they did all they could to stop the bleeding.”

Jordan said he received the news of the incident about 8am on Tuesday, and he had last seen Hooper a day before.

“He was exceptionally good at his job — he knew elephants very well. Just the other day we were having a chat about all types of elephants and their behavioural traits. He knew them well and had been working with us for 18 months,” he said.

“As you can imagine, we are all traumatised.”

After the incident Jordan said he consulted experts on what to do about the animals.

“We searched and finally found the cow with a bit of blood on its tusks. We went to its group to analyse their behaviour. The elephants were relaxed and showed no aggression. We decided against euthanising the elephant.”

TimesLIVE