Ouch! My Nose!

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African Ambush
Photograph courtesy Martin Nyfeler

A routine trip to the water hole recently resulted in a life-or-death struggle for a pair of African elephants when they were ambushed by a hungry Nile crocodile (pictured).

Tourist Martin Nyfeler of Kloten, Switzerland, captured pictures of the wild encounter during a visit to Zambia's South Luangwa National Park in late September.

"We saw a mother elephant and baby at the water hole and said , You know, what a cute picture, let's stop here," Nyfeler told National Geographic News.

"And suddenly the croc jumped out. The whole event took maybe 15 seconds."

—Brian Handwerk

more pics

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/photogalleries/101111-elephants-crocodile-attack-ambush-africa-pictures/

[coti]

1. The Elephant's Child. Great story.

Read it.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. MY VERY FIRST THOUGHT!!

[lumpy]

9. My first thought also. Kipling story I believe.

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[Myrina]

2. I hope she was able to use her trunk to whip-smash that gator across the lake ...

:(

[hobbit709]

7. Or just step on him.

turn him into one very flat crocodile.

[Solly Mack]

3. Yikes

They got away!!!! YAY!!!!

[AsahinaKimi]

5. its good to know

Both Elephants and the Crock, went in different directions. That crock could have been flattened by that Elephant!

[UTUSN]

6. I thought it was a thread about Jon, offing our nose to spite our face n/t

[Recovered Repug]

8. I bet none of the other crocodiles will believe his story

about the one that got away. "You should have seen it. It was as big as an elephant"

[madamesilverspurs]

10. Whoa!

I clicked on this thinking that I'd be commiserating with somebody (I just had reconstruction and it IS sore). Somehow, my schnoz hurts a bit less now . . .

[Bonobo]

11. "Mom always said: Don't play ball in the house!" nt

[applegrove]

12. Oh I so hope that croc got stomped on!!!

[AtomicKitten]

13. Bad crocodile. nt