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Call me old fashioned, but having watched that video, id say that elephant wants shooting.Its killed a human, someone's mum, wife, grandma.... Having been lucky enough to have been near a bull in must it seems quite out of the ordinary for it to chase a vehicle down for a half mile. The revenue stream for the park will be from tourism, an aggressive bull is risking the park losing its income, it needs to be shot, its a shame it can't be done pragmatically and be sold to someone who is willing to pay for the hunt to generate more money for the local area.
In 1988 I drove from Gambia (extreme West coast to Nairobi (East coast), via Timbuktu, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Zaire, Rwanda etc, with a bunch of soldiers in 2 soft top Series III LR's. Apart from a village in Zaire (now DRC) which had been raided by elephant the night before there was little sign of wildlife apart from birds (and insects) until we got to the Serengeti/Masaai Mara. The mud there is incredible - they call it something I can't remember but we bogged one of the Landies in on an uphill slope, had to get out and push about 50m from a sleeping pride of lion. If by that stage I had more than one pair of boxers I would have changed them. The lions barely woke up. Also next day we drove to a place vultures were circling and found a buff dead in a large circle of trampled grass...one horn hooked through its achilles tendon...as we had a look at it (out on ground against the rules) we realised other things may have spotted the vultures and beat a swift retreat....
It's cotton soil, really thick black mud. Our guide got stuck in a S3 LR with me and my girlfriend in 1990 near some thickets. After a discussion I jumped out and started putting rocks under the wheels and whilst doing so a lion roared, I have to say it was quite an experience but as a 20 year old you don't perhaps grasp the potentials!
Thats it couldn't think of the name - thanks! I went back in '89 with my girlfriend and rented (£10 a day I think!) a British Forces Safari Club Series 3 LR in Nairobi and went back to the anti poaching station in the Mara where we had stopped the year before and with their permission camped about 100 yards from their building, one of the guys came out with us (Lee Enfield between legs) morning and evening for 50p equivalent each session and a donation of a camp chair and a combat jacket, we towed some locals who were properly bogged-in in cotton soil out. Fabulous to do it away from the herds of Toyota minibuses and 1-1.
