Elephant Shot in the Head Walks Up to Truck to Ask For Help (He Survived)

[joeybee12]

An elephant shot in the forehead wandered around a Zimbabwe park for weeks with a massive hole before help could arrive. When it did, he motioned for assistance.

The elephant, named Pretty Boy, was shot in the forehead, which experts described as "too high for a 'kill shot.'"

When helped arrived inside Mana Pools National Park, Pretty Boy walked right up to veterinarians Dr. Keith Dutlow and Dr. Lisa Marabini for aide, according to AWARE’s Facebook page.

The two vets from AWARE (Animal and Wildlife Area Research and Rehabilitation Trust), examined the elephant on June 13.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elephant-shot-head-walks-truck-205100017.html

There are some photos...one of Pretty Boy at the truck and you can see the wound...poor guy...glad this is a happy ending.

[grossproffit]

1. Amazing. I was just coming to post this. Maybe add that he survived in your title.

Some people get really depressed just thinking that he may have died. Just a suggestion. Awesome story.

[joeybee12]

3. Done...thanks...nt

[Arkansas Granny]

2. What an incredible story.

[joeybee12]

4. They're such intelligent animals...

What an awful person to shoot him...twice.

[elljay]

14. Can you imagine what it is like

to be inside the brain of someone who thinks shooting animals for sport is fun?

[Glassunion]

19. My guess is not sport, but poaching for the tusks.

A whole lot of money in the illegal ivory trade.

Asshole none-the-less.

[lpbk2713]

5. That is a remarkably intelligent animal.

To seek help from humans after being harmed by other humans is astounding.

[delete_bush]

7. Shows that he can

differentiate between Conservatives and Liberals!

[mehrrh]

13. asked for help

I would suggest that the elephant knows that the jeep usually brings humans who have administered to him or his kin i the past.
Elephants are amazingly intelligent and demonstrate human emotions.

[Protalker]

6. Happy that elephant got help for hole in his head

Unlike Republican elephants who won't keep guns from no fly list folks. Who has a bigger hole in their head?

[Marie Marie]

15. Said it before and I'll say it again...

I hate it that this magnificent animal is the symbol for Republicans.

[milestogo]

8. I am assuming he had previous contact with the veterinarians

or did he get a referral?

[LiberalFighter]

26. Must had been in-network and no co-pays.

[shadowmayor]

9. That's what liberal folks do

Take care of the "elephants" walking around with holes in their heads!

Sorry - couldn't resist.

[busterbrown]

25. Not bad...

didn’t get it at first...

[flamingdem]

10. Thanks for this

Did not know about this group, seems the elephant dud. They sound donation worthy.

[Hiraeth]

11. .

[mehrrh]

12. elephants demonstrate they can reason

I just read a book "The Elephant Company" about elephants in Burma (Myanmar) and how they live, and seem to understand as well as feel emotion. They were of enormous help in WWII in building bridges, aiding soldiers and civilians. They demonstrate compassion and concern for one another that is quite remarkable.

[Else You Are Mad]

18. Indeed

Elephants are extremely intelligent animals, they mourn their dead and, if I remember correctly, they hold funerals for their dead.

[secondwind]

16. We need to ban elephants from circuses... they live a dreadful existence... :-(

[lunatica]

22. They're beginning to stop animal acts in circuses and SeaWorld

And retiring them

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/11/ringling-bros-barnum-and-bailey-circus-elephants-retire-may-2016

[HuckleB]

17. Similar stories are told in Carl Safina's "Beyond Words."

http://www.powells.com/book/beyond-words-what-animals-think-feel-9780805098884/1-3

It's an amazing book. I can't recommend it enough.

[Number9Dream]

23. That's a great book! Elephants are definitely sentient creatures.

The sections about orcas and wolves are excellent too.

Poaching should be eliminated by any means possible.

[HuckleB]

24. We have to do something about poaching, and fast!

Last Summer in Yellowstone, I met one of the people Safina goes around with in the wolves section. He told me about the book. Yeah, it's fantastic!

[HelenWheels]

20. Were Trump's sons in the area? nt

[Octafish]

21. Geez, what a planet.

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Elephants as sentient beings, hunted for profit.

Oh well. Humans are allowed to drown in the rush to escape war.

Meanwhile, drones fly overhead to terrorize fiend, friend and foe alike.

ETA: National Geographic article on the rescue:

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/20/letter-from-zimbabwe-how-we-saved-pretty-boy/

PS: 25,000 elephants were slaughtered in 2015.

[oberliner]

30. PS: 25,000 chickens were slaughtered in the time it took to read that article

No one seems to care about that sort of thing, though.

Maybe someone should name all the animals at the factory farms.

[Rex]

32. We should ban them from zoos and the circus too. It is cruel treatment imo.

However as you know some folks delight in the suffering of others. Sadly.

[red dog 1]

27. K&R

I'd like to put a hole in the head of the poacher who shot Pretty Boy!

(Perhaps just "graze him" like John Travolta did to Dennis Farina in Get Shorty)

[oberliner]

31. Are you a vegetarian?

I certainly hope your compassion extends to other animals as well.

[horseshoecrab]

28. K&R

Poor creature! Glad he was intelligent enough to get help from the right people.

[romanic]

29. Poachers are scum, the lowest of the low. >:I

But at least this elephant survived, thank God for GOOD human beings who care about the flora and fauna of this Earth.