Summary
Blanca Ojanguren, a 22-year-old Spanish tourist, was fatally attacked by an elephant at the Koh Yao Elephant Care sanctuary in Thailand while bathing the animal.
She was struck by its tusk, resulting in fatal injuries.
This tragedy highlights the risks of popular recreational activities involving elephants in Thailand.
It follows a recent fatal attack by a wild elephant on a Thai woman and adds to the 39 elephant-related deaths reported in 2024.
Anyone who doesn’t work with elephants professionally shouldn’t be close to them. They are big, smart and can hold a grudge. You don’t go and pet a lion or a bear, why would you go and pet an elephant?
Well, there is a pretty big difference between a carnivore/omnivore and a herbivore animal when it comes to how dangerous they are to other animals including humans.
But certainly not “safe” since they’re so huge, powerful and wild animals.
Large herbivores are usually extremely dangerous animals. They have to be able to fight off the carnivores.
And humans are carnivores. And it doesn’t matter if you’re vegan, the animal can’t tell.
Usually prey animals determine if another animal is a threat from the placement of their eyes. Front facing eyes usually mean the animal is built for hunting prey, and side-mounted eyes are for prey needing to keep aware of their surroundings.
We have front facing eyes so most animals immediately will register us as a threat.
Source? This sounds incredibly made up
It’s true. Maybe check on things before commenting.
https://www.nhstateparks.org/getmedia/e9e30fbf-fa20-4666-bd8b-83b7537641b9/Reading_a_skull_worksheet
I am not doubting that eye placement is a strong, but not decisive, indicator where the animal falls on the predator/prey divide. That is a very basic fact of zoology. I am doubting the claim that prey animals categorize non-native, and therefore unknown, species as a threat by this eye placement.
You just said it was made up and now you’re moving the goal posts. Stop.
