Elephant Fights Off Rhino Group

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A determined elephant successfully fought off a group of rhinos to enjoy a snack.

Suzanne Boswell, 42, a member of Vetpaw (Veterans Empowered To Protect African Wildlife), snapped the footage at the Limpopo province in South Africa.

A group of onlookers witnessed the animals squaring up to eat a bunch of grass during a drought.

The elephant threw dirt, sticks, and even charged at the rhinos before they eventually fled the scene.

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[BDUBZ]

"I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye."
- Bully Elephant Maguire

[flipperdale]

The rhinos were like: Does anyone in our group know how to throw stuff?

[LavishPatchKid]

It's always nice to be smarter than the other guy.
"You just throw dirt in the air and they run away, thinking it's magic!" lol

[lone-wolf-]

I like at the end how the massive bull elephant just casually grabs for a snack. Fight, eat, sleep, repeat.

[JAGzilla-urlh]

Interactions like this are incredibly cool to see. You've got the two largest living land animals, and while there is a substantial gap in size and strength, the intellectual gap is even wider. The elephant could just push in there and overpower the rhinos physically, but he outsmarts them instead. When a rhino wants to posture and threaten, all it has to work with is its own body. The elephant can do that too, sure, but it can also go a step farther and use tools to intimidate. It throws dirt or sticks, and you can tell the rhinos just have no ability to comprehend that. They always look so surprised, like "What is this sorcery?!" This is one of those cases where brain really does dominate brawn.

[goddessgame]

two incredible and respectable animals

[WOK-tp]

I absolutely love that elephants know how use weapons!

[omhegde]

"I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye": -Bully Maguire- Bull elephant

[mortimerzilch]

I get it...when confronted by rhinos...throw dirt at them!

[stevewalsh-balshaw]

He's using his intelligence just scaring them off avoiding confrontation very intelligent animals

[shashee]

0:22 - 0:40 A dirt toss, a fart, then a stick it's on now!!!

[davidca]

I cracked up when the elephant flings dirt at them haha

[hiddendagger]

Throwing sand 😂😂
Elephants r very smart

[qt]

Wow, at :35 he throws a stick at them!

[madambutterfly]

He’s definitely King of the Jungle❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️🐘

[saintsataniko]

I love that he just picks up a stick and chucks it at them. Oh still here, have a face-full of dirt then!

[crzzymnn]

I rode an elephant once, felt like I was going to war.

[MohamadAli-qnzt]

I love how he throwing sticks in Rhino's face ahahahaha

[GotamaFusion]

Elephants are strong, massive, intelligent and beautiful

[momthegreatest]

Brain of Brains Elephant knows that eye sight of Rhino is poor..so scares them off by throwing mud at them..