Fighting elephants in the Russian circus caused panic among spectators | the Chronicle

Two elephants clashed in the middle of a circus performance in the city of Kazan, Russia, causing panic among viewers and the video going viral on social media.

Although there were no injuries, those who attended the show left the circus terrified of what happened, media reported. Huffington Post.

According to local Russian media, trainers of the circus 1,000 kilometers from Moscow explained that It was a battle for the dominant’s place, a behavior of a normal nature, but potentially dangerous in this circus context.

The reports of the Russian authorities aim to determine, through an investigation, whether the the incident is a sign of more serious problems in the animals or if it was really a fight “natural for the dominant space”.

In the video, you can see how one elephant attacks the other until it is lying on the ground, while circus trainers tried to separate them using swords and other deterrents.

One of the elephants caused serious injuries to the other, knocking him down with his horns and then biting him on various parts of his body.

The elephant that ran over a hunter in 2017

African elephants are potentially dangerous when threatened because they have a approximate weight of 6 thousand kilograms, so if one of them fell on a person, death would be instantaneous.

In 2017, a 51-year-old elephant hunter was run over by one of these gigantic animals. According to Johannesburg city media, the hunter had been dressed by an elephant, which grabbed it with the horns and threw it in the air. In an attempt to save him, a comrade Theunis Botha (the deceased hunter) decided to shoot the elephant, but this ran into his friend.