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Title: Aimed object-throwing by a wild African elephant in an interspecific encounter
Author(s): Wickler, W.; Seibt, U.
Year published: 1997
Journal: Ethology
Volume: 103
Pages: 365-368
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Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa
Ecology - Interspecific Relations
White Rhino
While studying the various ways in which African elephants make use of their trunk, tusks and toes in different feeding situations, we witnessed object throwing in an interspecific and presumably antagonistic encounter, which we videotaped, in the Hluhluwe Game Reserve in November 1993. An eleph...
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