[TigerLikesRooster]

[Hegemony Cricket]

A palestinian elephant?

[RexBeach]

Maybe the woman hurt the animal’s feelings? Hah!

Has the elephant “lawyered up” yet?

[EyeGuy]

Amd somewhere in America, law students are salivating at the prospect of building a lucrative career around suing the pads, paws and claws off of members of the Animal Kingdom.

[WayneS]

Does anyone offer Anger Management Classes for pachyderms?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Beware elephants bearing stones.

[RC2]

I guess I would stay away from the elephant. Sounds good to me.

[Brett66]

The zoo, however, ruled out the possibility that the elephant threw the stone.

Why would they do that? I saw an elephant at the zoo here in Oklahoma spray mud from it's trunk onto a mom and her kid. It looked like it had a smirk on it's face after it did it.

[dead]

We used to cut school in high school and go drinking beer in Central Park. One day we wandered into the monkey house, and my friend Kenny started taunting them through the bars. One monkey came close and spit a big gobber onto him.

That was way more fun than stupid school!

[stormer]

This doesn't surprise me at all. I have studied elephants in the wild and can attest to their intelligence and sensitivity; they are very expressive animals. That said, I have also seen elephants in captivity do things to people that are downright shitty seemingly to amuse themselves. Elephants have a somewhat crude, juvenile sense of humor.

[Kirkwood]

This is why elephants shouldn’t live in glass houses.

[DejaJude]

This reminds me of a skit from the Carol Burnett Show. A rouge elephant went on a crime spree and they hung him.

[earlJam]

[ladyvet]

She’s lucky it wasn’t feces.

[Jaxter]

A woman surnamed Kim...in Korea? What’s the chances of that?

[Wuli]

Elephants ARE animals, after all, and mentally - from a human perspective - quite juvenile and behave much more on primal instinct, and yet do have “emotions” - responses driven by pain, pleasure, rememberences of what is painful or pleasurable and yes, even anger.

As to the elephant in question, in the KBS and MBC news footage of the story (Korean national news networks), the zoo’s enclosure is horrible and very small for an animal the size of an elephant. In addition, elephants are very social animals and this one is by itself. Even the close-ups of its skin look so bad that maybe some elephant rescue charity will be sent some videos about it and try to help it out.

I am sure the elephant does not likely distinguish that much between any of the humans it has contact with or sees. To an elephant they are all part of the same group that has it locked up. So, if the elephant was “angry” and decided to pitch a rock (which the more extensive footage shows it doing) in the direction of the people observing it, the woman who was struck should not take it personally - any general area of people standing nearby could have been it’s “target”.

The rocks themselves seem strangely (very many of them and broken into many sizes) too prominent a feature inside the enclosure, in as much as the natural habitat for elephants are plains with patches of shrubs and trees and not particularly rocky terrain at all. The handlers must have all along viewed the rock piles they gave the elephant as cheap toys in the first place.