Accident with an elephant in Gabon

Philippe

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This Sunday , on a asphalt road near Fougamou in Gabon , a car hit an elephant . The elephant and the driver are dead . We don't know if it was during the night without light and how fast he was driving .
RIP Ele
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Ouch!!!! Obviously the driver was probably not wearing seatbelt.
 
Not sure it would have mattered.
 
Elephant appears to have both its tusks..
 
It does appear so but one is laying on the road. Perhaps that photo was taken after the tusks were likely removed.
 
Must have been a remote stretch of road.........tires and ivory are still there..........FWB
 
It does appear so but one is laying on the road. Perhaps that photo was taken after the tusks were likely removed.
Or the unfortunate vehicle driver was a poacher and the ivory was ejected from the truck bed? Karma?
 
:E Horrified: and we worry about our wild pigs !
 

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