Elephant

Some social media users were shocked that the elephant could even swim at all.

The man had been at a research facility when the elephant attacked, and he suffered severe injuries to his leg and chest.

A demonstration posted to TikTok about how elephants drink water has received more than a million views on the platform.

Beth Bogar says she had just finished riding and swimming with the elephant when it bit her arm as she was posing for a photo.

A witness to the incident saw the elephant throw Chat Mokhom in the air before killing him.

From the 21-year-old's injuries officials could tell that an elephant had trampled him to death.

Elephants are usually peaceful creatures, but can become aggressive when they feel harassed, vulnerable or threatened.

The elephant is thought to have been hunting for food inside the truck, tipping the vehicle off the road and onto its side with the driver still inside.

The man was killed by a lone elephant on his way home in another example of human-animal conflict in the region.

A hunt for the elephant responsible has now commenced after it killed two people.

Pai Lin, around 71, would carry up to six tourists at a time, resulting in irreversible spinal damage.

The privately owned elephant had collapsed due to injuries caused by severe neglect and was unable to stand for 17 days.

Moti the elephant, 35, has critical injuries, with an untreated fracture of his front leg and severe infection in the foot pad.

Although not confirmed by authorities, local people claim the elephant charged at multiple people and was responsible for several deaths.

Wildlife photographer Zander Rautenbach told Newsweek: "We were impressed with his tenacity and started filming."

The elephant crushed the wife first and then turned to her husband after emerging from a nearby forest. The couple were severely injured in the attack.

Scientists are hoping to create Asian elephants that can withstand sub-zero temperatures like mammoths once did in order to help conserve the Arctic.

Sheep walking in circles, a mystery shark with bulging eyes and a Burmese python swallowing an alligator whole also made the list.

"These are the daily dangers that we face in protecting our natural heritage," Head Ranger Catherine Dreyer told Newsweek.

The wildlife official had gotten close to the herd of 11 elephants to take pictures before one of them charged.

The reporter kept going after the elephant's trunk poked his ear, but when it tickled his nose, he finally gave in to a fit of giggles.

"These behaviors, like similar behaviors in primates, seem to upend the popular belief that only humans have an awareness of death," an expert told Newsweek.

"Although elephant births are common, seeing one occur in the wild is a special event," David Daballen of Save the Elephants told Newsweek.

"She was perfect," said Scott Blais, CEO of Global Sanctuary for Elephants. "She was one of those elephants that stole my heart from the get-go."

Customs officials inspected the item and found it to be from a "highly endangered" and protected species of elephant from Africa.

Police arrived to find the owner's body in a pool of blood after the elephant attacked him with its tusks.

Pictures show the extremely rare elephant living happily with its mother in Myanmar.

The Prague Zoo previously explained that the calf was tired from spending most of his day playing in his outdoor enclosure.

Activists have argued that the elephant is lonely and should be able to sue under habeus corpus rights.

"I know that baby is still several hundred pounds and could likely flatten me if he wanted to, but he's just too [small] to be scary," one commenter said.