Elephant

The death of the 71-year-old vet from Cape Town comes days after another fatal encounter with an elephant in Zimbabwe.

Sunyei was hand-raised by head keeper Benjamin. She returned from the wild to visit him eight years later to introduce her calf who was just a few hours old.

The man in Gabon managed to crawl to safety after suffering injuries as locals sound alarm over increase in elephant attacks.

The animal is believed to have escaped from the nearby Maasai Mara Game Reserve before attacking the man.

The victim was cycling with a friend along the Sinamusanga-Sengwe fishing camp road when they were confronted by a herd of elephants.

The animal charged at a group of local residents when they confronted it in a forest located outside of their town.

The 15 elephants originally came from the nature reserve in the southwest region of Yunnan, but it's unclear why they began wandering through farmland, villages and even on paved roads in urban areas.

Gabon is home to a large colony of forest elephants, which can be dangerous when close to humans. These kind of hunting accidents have been occurring more frequently in recent months.

A video has emerged of an elephant skillfully playing cricket with a group of men, and it has divided opinion on Twitter.

One Twitter user suggested raising the elephant as their child and starting a wildly successful Instagram account.

The wild animal had strayed from the nearby Tsavo East National Park when it attacked the man in Makueni, Kenya, on Wednesday.

"It has been established that the area in which the group of tourists were camping is not a designated camping site," Namibia's Ministry of Environment and Tourism said in a statement alongside news of the death.

The homemade explosives have become the leading cause of death for elephants in Sri Lanka, where hundreds of the endangered animals are killed each year.

The guard's wife said she "never thought one of those animals would take his life" though her husband had described encounters with dangerous animals while working.

No visitors were at risk during the creature's escape, the zoo said.

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Botswana, where trophy hunting is banned, currently has the largest elephant population on the continent.

Ancient DNA adds new elephant species to the mix.

"At only a few weeks of age, this little calf had already won our hearts," the zoo's president said.

Two people are killed by elephants on average each year in the area around the national park located in Thailand.

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Souvenir vendors heard screams and used catapults to scare the beast away and save the tourist's life.

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The number of dead elephants found has already exceeded 2014's numbers, and 2018 is not even over yet.

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From a chubby-cheeked orangutan to a tiny pygmy elephant.

Wildlife authorities say the elephant was killed out of revenge for destroying crops.

Police called Kenia's visit "short and peaceful."

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