More ApeLivesMatter Violence

That elephant has good aim did the CIA train him to throw?

I bet the girl, and or people in the vicinity, had been acting obnoxiously. Contrary to popular sensationalist news headlines, animals, larger than a bug, do not act irrationally, disregarding humans of course.

>>63761
You don't know that -- the elephant could have been dicking around and didn't fully realize that humans don't have the same fucking bulletproof skin as them.

Also smart animals can and do act irrationally, just like humans -- more so even if their lifetime in captivity results in a type of domestication related to neoteny, where their complete dependence on humans for sustenance makes them basically susceptible to child-like tantrums.

But there's probably tens of other things exclusive to elephants that could be going on as well. The point is, don't anthropomorphize too much -- they may be insanely smart (we still have no idea if they're smarter than apes, or even us, especially now that one has learned to fucking talk), but they're a different species by a big margin.

If the elephant's enclosure was completely or mostly surrounded by people, it's a reasonable possibility that the elephant was just throwing the rock around and happened to hit the girl by pure chance. But if the people observing were limited to a small part of the enclosure's perimeter, it seems most probable that the elephant was doing it intentionally, likely provoked by one of the observers (not necessarily the girl, maybe he was aiming at someone else and missed).

>>64403
Looks like anyone could have been hit judging by where everyone and the rock are from this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lOnhKypAo4