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There was even a situation where they sought revenge. There was one person that was allegedly a retired 70-yo poacher, And a herd stomped them to death. Then at the funeral the elephants marched in and threw the corpse around. Then they singled out and destroyed that person's home. The destruction and collateral damage was surprisingly minimal, so this was an extremely targeted attack.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/toi-original/watc...

So yeah, elephants truly never forget. And some will make it their life mission to right the wrongs.

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There are so many implications to this story that are wild to think about.

How did the elephants know generally where this person lived? How did they know specifically which house she lived in? How did they know there was a funeral to crash?

I'd speculate that the answer is scouting, and the idea of elephants scouting for other elephants in a planned attack is so damn cool that I just want to assume that must be the answer in the face of knowing that I'm speculating.

It says in the article right there that they also destroyed other houses.

I call bs.

They probably intercepted communications between those other houses and the target, and determined they should also pay the price.

If Monkey Hitman can be a TV show, then so can Mafia Elephants.

I did say "minimal", not "none". If I see a herd of a dozen elephants coming in a neighborhood, I'm sure expecting more than 1 house demolished with malice and 3 others damaged as collateral.

It's possible that the signal alerting them to where she lived, had also been present in the other homes (smell, visible trails, decorations, etc). Statistically, this a large number of rare events that coincided.

A herd of elephants is aggressive. They trample an old woman who can run away as fast.

People hide, but for the burial, they come out of their houses, make noise, alerting the elephants.

Elephants get aggressive again. People run away. Elephants trample what they left behind.

Them, Elephants also trample the village.

Seems like a pretty likely scenario?

Stuff happens!

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