"Elephant kills US woman, baby in Kenya" by Associated Press | January 7, 2010
NAIROBI - A lone elephant charged out of the brush as an American family was hiking near Mount Kenya and trampled to death a mother and the 1-year-old daughter she held in her arms, officials said yesterday....
I'm not angry at the elephant; I'd be sick of someone stealing my land, too!
FLASHBACK:
"Kenya’s elephants dying amid drought" by Associated Press | September 10, 2009
Yeah, MAYBE THAT is it did it; stealing water, too!
NAIROBI - A drought in Kenya has become so bad that it is felling even the giants of the animal kingdom: the country’s famed elephants, which are dying as rivers dry up and grasslands shrivel in parched game reserves.
The bones of the elephants bleaching under a relentless African sun underscore how bad the drought is. It has killed hundreds of cattle and many acres of crops, threatening the lives of people who depended on them for food. There are no tallies of deaths among people attributed to the drought, but the UN’s World Food program said recently that 3.8 million Kenyans are at risk and need emergency food aid.
Zoologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who founded Save the Elephants, said the drought is the worst he has seen in 12 years and poses a serious threat to the animals, whose striking silhouettes roaming Kenya’s broad savannah help draw 1 million tourists each year.
“It may be related to climate change, and the effect is elephants, particularly the young and the old, have began to die,’’ he told AP Television News on Monday. “When they do not have enough food they also seem to be vulnerable to disease, their immune system weakens and they catch all sorts of diseases.’’
Sigh. Why bring that lie into it? It is destruction of habitat by western corporations that are the real threat.
Elephants, which have no predators, must roam widely to get their daily ration of as much as 52 gallons of water and about 660 pounds of grass, leaves, and twigs.
No predators except man, right? That's because other animals are smart; what other animal can take on an angry elephant, save a mouse?
But the water is disappearing and the grass is all but gone.
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And why am I so affected by a "dumb beast," readers?
Related: ORIGINAL Elephant Painting
I watched an Animal Planet show on them, and they remember where their herd mates die.
In fact, one died during their journey on the show, and the other elephants had a devil of a time getting the mother to move along.
It was heart-breaking to see the mother elephant wailing, not want to leave her dead calf!
The narrator even pointed out that the elephants were SHOWING EMOTIONS!!!!
And now they are SELF-AWARE ENOUGH to PAINT!!!!
LIFE is PRECIOUS, world!!!
Can't we all SHARE THIS PLANET in PEACE??!!!!!!!!!
And hey, it is not like people are also starving in Kenya or anything.
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Related: U.N. Plays the Kenyan Card For Israel
The Kenyan Connection
Yeah, every time the Zionist MSM covers anything it is for agenda-pushing reasons or s***-fill for space.
Also see: Sudan Shuts Down Israeli Weapons-Smuggling Site
Oh, yeah, that's why the region is a hellhole.
