{"id":19566,"date":"2016-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/elephant-ragdolls-buffalo-and-tosses-it-into-the-air\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T00:00:00","slug":"elephant-ragdolls-buffalo-and-tosses-it-into-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/elephant-ragdolls-buffalo-and-tosses-it-into-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant ragdolls a buffalo and tosses it into the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>An amateur photographer travelling through Kenya has captured the incredible moment a buffalo started a fight with an elephant\u2026 with devastating results.<\/h3>\n<p>The sleeping buffalo was startled by an elephant innocently walking past, and then made the surprising decision to charge the elephant\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Which didn\u2019t work out well.<\/p>\n<p>The elephant impales the buffalo with a tusk and flings the animal in to the air.<\/p>\n<h3>Photos of the incident were taken by Kimberly Maurer, take a look:<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elephant ragdolls a buffalo | FIVEAA\" title=\"Elephant ragdolls a buffalo | FIVEAA\" height=\"641\" width=\"962\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elephant1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>The buffalo was sleeping when it was startled by the elephant<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elephant ragdolls a buffalo | FIVEAA\" title=\"Elephant ragdolls a buffalo | FIVEAA\" height=\"587\" width=\"975\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elephant2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>The elephant impaled the buffalo with its tusk<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elephant ragdolls a buffalo | FIVEAA\" title=\"Elephant ragdolls a buffalo | FIVEAA\" height=\"641\" width=\"962\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elephant3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>The incident was captured by amateur photographer&nbsp;Kimberly Maurer while travelling in Kenya<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elephant ragdolls a buffalo | FIVEAA\" title=\"Elephant ragdolls a buffalo | FIVEAA\" height=\"641\" width=\"962\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elephant4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>The buffalo was killed in the confrontation<\/h6>\n<h3>Kimberly said the brutal scene was a once-in-a-lifetime photo opportunity.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI started looking through the images on the back of my camera immediately after the attack and became very excited to discover that I had actually captured the event in detail,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis photograph was, no doubt, a once-in-a-lifetime capture for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you would imagine, his carcass was a meal for another animal or two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Park rangers said they suspected the buffalo was ill when it charged the elephant, which could explain its uncharacteristic behaviour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/south-australians-addicted-to-pessimism-says-jay-weatherill\">SA IS ADDICTED TO PESSIMISM, SAYS JAY WEATHERILL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/robbie-gray-comes-down-with-famous-old-man-injury\">POWER STAR GOES DOWN WITH &#8220;OLD MAN INJURY&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amateur photographer travelling through Kenya has captured the incredible moment a buffalo started a fight with an elephant\u2026 with devastating results. The sleeping buffalo was startled by an elephant innocently walking past, and then made the surprising decision to charge the elephant\u2026 Which didn\u2019t work out well. The elephant impales the buffalo with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-19566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elephant ragdolls a buffalo and tosses it into the air - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/elephant-ragdolls-buffalo-and-tosses-it-into-the-air\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elephant ragdolls a buffalo and tosses it into the air\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An amateur photographer travelling through Kenya has captured the incredible moment a buffalo started a fight with an elephant\u2026 with devastating results. 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