Young elephant gets surprise bite from crocodile

[joeybee12]

A young elephant innocently walked up to a watering hole to get a drink of water, not knowing of the danger lurking right under its nose until it was too late. As the pachyderm dipped its trunk into the water, a crocodile leaped up from out of the water and latched on to the elephant’s trunk.

Wildlife photographer Ian Salisbury, who is also a general manager of a safari lodge at the South Luangwa National Park in Zambia, captured the amazing wildlife moment in a series of photographs.

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/young-elephant-gets-surprise-bite-from-crocodile/

Photos at the link show the bite and the elephant shaking the croc off, or the croc releasing...no harm, but the young elephant is much wiser now!

[xchrom]

1. that croc is lucky that elephant didn't go in the water and kick his ass. where's Skittles?

she might be in africa right now kicking croc butt.

[joeybee12]

2. A full gorwn elephant probably could have lifted its trunk and the croc out and

shook it off and done some serious damage to the croc!

[xchrom]

4. i think the croc was lucky that elephant was more surprised than pissed.

that elephant as young as he was -- was many time the size of that croc.

[joeybee12]

7. Young and inexperienced, so he was shocked...

I bet the croc was hoping for the element of surprise.

[surrealAmerican]

3. Wasn't this a children's story.

... like maybe How the Elephant Got His Trunk (Kipling)?

[joeybee12]

5. Yup...the croc pullled on the trunk and it grew...nt

[Brigid]

6. This is how animals usually learn their lessons in the wild . . .

The hard way.

[joeybee12]

8. Fortunately no harm to this one...

Or to the croc.

[thelordofhell]

9. I guess it didn't listen to the Bi-Colored Python Rock Snake