Aren't we lucky we only have Kangaroos, Camels, and Cattle to contend with...

Goldfinger · Senior Member

Aren't we lucky we only have Kangaroos, Camels, and Cattle to contend with...

Hey Jim · Guru

Try explaining that to your travel insurance Co. / Rental car Co . biggrin biggrin biggrin

The Belmont Bear · Guru

We have had a few close encounters with elephants in the Kruger Park when we were living in Southern Africa. bull elephants become extremely aggressive when they are in musk (mating season) but you usually see the wet marks on their temples and running down the sides of their face. Luckily for us none of them ever physically attacked our car although one did come right up to the front trumpet, flap it's ears and carry on. I can tell you there is nothing more intimidating than sitting in your car looking up at a full grown African bull elephant, that one in the video is no where near full grown (maybe even Asian) and it doesn't appear to be in musk - probably just playing around.

Brownie2 · Senior Member

Years ago, visited the Bacchus Marsh Lion Park. My family in one car, mate and his family in another. We had a great picnic lunch in the park (and a couple of drinks) before driving through the elephant enclosure. One of my mates kids opened the back window, an elephant put its trunk in to grab a bag of chips the kids had, kid wound up the window trapping the trunk, elephant put its knee into the door putting a hug dint in the door and smashed the window as it ripped its trunk out. Very bad. Kids traumatized, car a mess! On the way home my mate was the first car on the scene of an accident. When the police arrived the thought my mate had been involved with the damage on the car, and when asked my mate said "no, an elephant did it", they made him do a breath test! Luckily he passed. True story.

RustyD · Guru

I was at safari park in Taiwan when monkeys came out and ripped everything off the car they could - windscreen wipers, mirrors, rubber strip holding front windscreen in, hub caps, etc; everything that vandals rip off. Luckily it was a company car. The accident report was interesting filling in.