3 African male elephants were sentenced to death for raping and killing 63 rhinos! Why does this unethical mating behavior appear in these two terrestrial behemoths? What is their fate?
This "blood case" took place in South Africa's Piringsburg National Park, and the three male elephants who were originally mild-tempered unexpectedly showed their brutal side. They drove vehicles, attacked their kind, and even killed 63 rhinos in the park by "rape", as if they were "crazy".
Originally, experts thought that these three African elephants were in heat, resulting in high testosterone levels, so that this aggressive behavior appeared, and maybe it returned to normal after a while. As a result, the attack and killing did not stop, and even intensified, in order to ensure the safety of other animals and tourists, the park had no choice but to shoot him.
What is the cause of the abnormal behavior of these three African male elephants? Why are rhinos the main victims?
First of all, elephants always give the impression of calm and gentle, but their fighting power and co-aggression are very strong, and adult male elephants have almost no natural predators in the wild. They do generally behave calmly, but if they are in estrus, they will be particularly irritable, have a strong sense of territory, and be unreasonable in arresting who hits whom.
The most deadly thing is that the breeding period and estrus period of African elephants are not fixed, and they can reproduce throughout the year, so the temper of African elephants is also cloudy and unstable, it is difficult to feel the rules, and other animals can only seek their own blessings when they encounter it.
Second, the rape of male elephants has a lot to do with the tragic experiences they suffered, to be precise, all of this is caused by the shadow of childhood.
Elephants have a high IQ, a strong memory, and rich and delicate emotions. Baby elephants who witness hunters shooting their parents and family members will have a great mental impact, and tragic childhood memories will be with it for a long time, affecting its later brain and behavioral development.
Generally, the female elephant will enter the family group life, and these painful memories gradually fade, but the male elephant is very lonely, they have lacked family companionship and elder guidance since childhood, when the male elephant becomes an adult and enters estrus, irritability and pain will surround it, and it urgently needs to find an outlet.
South African animal experts studied various wild elephant attacks and determined that the perpetrators were young male elephants who witnessed family disasters from an early age, and without exception.
So why are the victims rhinos? Because rhinos are more suitable in size, and they are more clumsy, it is difficult to escape the restraints of male elephants.
In Fort Pilins National Park, although there are many species, only rhinos are the best bully. If you look for the same kind, you will be driven away by elephants, only the rhino is closer in size to the female elephant, and it is still a solitary animal.
Male elephants are twice the size of rhinos, and male elephants will sneak up on the back of the rhinoceros, use the trunk and two front legs to press the fleeing rhinoceros, and forcibly mate. If the rhinoceros does not obey, it will be attacked madly by the violent male elephant, and if it loses its chastity, it will die. These 63 rhinos either died in the rape process or in the resistance struggle, and the end was very tragic.
There was no "bad fate" between African elephants and rhinos, all this was caused by human hands, male elephants were destroyed to the point of mental distortion, and how innocent those rhinos who were raped to death were. #Headline Creation Challenge##所见所得, very scientific##Rhino##How terrifying is the fighting power of African male elephants##大象与犀牛是不同的物种, why do African male elephants rape rhinos? ##非洲象 #
