The internet is filled with videos and pictures of animals doing incredible things to survive in the wild. These videos are extremely fascinating and instantly go viral.
One such video was shared by Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Susanta Nanda on Twitter today. The clip was originally shared by Latest Sightings, which documents various animal sightings at the Kruger National Park in South Africa.
The officer posted the clip with the caption, “Elephant use branch of a tree to scare away an angry Rhino. Elephants use parts of trees as tools. Here it sends a strong signal to the rhino. Go away or will throw you like the branch. The hint was enough.”
Take a look:
Elephant use branch of a tree to scare away a angry Rhino
Elephants use parts of tree as tools. Here it sends a strong signal to the rhino. Get away or will throw you like the branch. The hint was enough.. pic.twitter.com/tHrLg67fw3
— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) May 15, 2020
The clip shows two elephants walking in the wild, as they come across an angry rhino. To scare away the animal, the elephant, who is leading, puts a stick on its head. However, the stick suddenly falls. After this, the rhino immediately starts charging towards the elephants. But it comes to a halt after the elephant picks up the stick again and throws it in the rhino’s direction. After which the rhino runs away.
As soon as the IFS officer shared the clip, it went viral and was viewed by netizens over 11k times. Many took to the comments section to express their views about the clip.
Here’s what they said:
Incredible!!!
— Debbie Nester (@DebbieNester1) May 15, 2020
Never mess with an elephant
— P G Lakshmanan (@PGLakshmanan1) May 15, 2020
Use Of Brain Is More Useful Than Use Of Brawn !!
— SANJAY KUMAR MISRA (@SANJAYK22353694) May 15, 2020
Quite common.. have seen elephants in Kerala throwing coconut leaves and twigs on people if irritated.
— SaffronChilly (@VSHANOJ) May 15, 2020
Wow what an amazing and intelligent response. Both understood the other’s body language.
— Subbu (@subbu75) May 15, 2020
Along with the video clippings, it is much more interesting to see your comments on animal psychology. Thanks for sharing @susantananda3
— Sargam Jain (@incontaminatus) May 15, 2020
The elephant has advantage of height ..but we are lucky enough to see these amazing cretures.. hope they stop poaching and killing these innocent souls
— Lakshmikanth Chinnappa (@LakshmikanthC12) May 15, 2020
There are instances. But here the elephant was irritated by presence of the rhino in its path. In African savannah has many recorded videos of stand off by these two heavyweights.
— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) May 15, 2020
At the time of writing this, the tweet already had over 1.1k likes and several retweets.
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