Battle To Save Elephant From Poacher's Poisoned Arrow

An ailing elephant who had been shot with a poacher's poisoned arrow was saved by a team of heroic vets in Kenya.On September 15th, medics from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Kenya Wildlife Service treated the bull quickly after it had been felled by an ivory poacher in Tsavo National Park.Once the deadly arrow was removed and the wound was cleaned, the team administered long acting antibiotics ensuring that the elephant made a full recovery. Rob Brandford, Director of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, confirmed that the animal would have died if it wasn't for the amazing efforts of the emergency team. Source: Barcroft TV

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Elephants rampaging on the Streets of Denmark

In Karrebaeksminde, a beach town in Denmark, things were going quite well and people were enjoying the site of circus elephants bathing in water. All went in the right direction, till their trainers started to take them back into the truck. All the three elephants resisted to get inside the truck and started to roam on the streets of the town. When the trainers finally got their attention and made them to move to a truck nearby, one of the elephants got hit by a stick which a trainer was holding. This made elephant very angry and he started charging towards the trainer. Initially scared, the trainer did make some distance with the angry elephant, but it did not stop the elephant. The animal went on to make quite a light work of the car, which was just beside the circus truck. The car was completely destroyed.

Finally, the trainers got control over all the three elephants. They even performed that night at the circus as usul. However, what happened in the afternoon hours will not be forgotten by neither the trainers nor the locales in that area. The only good part about everything was that no one got hurt.

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