Crocodile puts death grip on elephant's trunk in brutal fight | New York Post

Visitors at the Liwonde National Park in Malawi, east Africa, were horrified when a young elephant was attacked by a crocodile, getting its trunk stuck in the beast's mouth. Luckily, one of the older elephants came storming in and helped free the panicked youngster.

[@HBSup]

Crocodile was going for the Darwin award and he got one.

[@fergoka]

The croc turned and slipped back into water unharmed...

[@jrbkett]

@@fergoka Nope. He was corrected fundamentally.

[@fergoka]

@@jrbkett Explain how. I see none of that.

[@jrbkett]

@@fergoka I can’t explain it.

[@wllsch5437]

This crocodile died after being crushed by elephants .

[@Malloubyn]

I don’t usually mind when I see nature taking its course, but when it comes to an elephant, I usually hope the elephants always win because they are so intelligent and beautiful.

[@prehistoriccreature1800]

No they're not You're an idiot if you root for the elephants Everytime there's an elephant involved, I root for Its Opponent

[@annyashakur8837]

❤

[@zzirfamo24]

The full video is on here too, the elephant stepped in and the croc ran away

[@truearea53]

Yep Elephant rules.

[@GrabbaBeer]

They’re intelligent yes not so sure about beautiful 💀

[@jayachandran.a]

Moral of the story : Don't bite off more than you can chew.

[@ItsMe-yv9jd]

Haaaah! (Best comment ever.)

[@jacobusstefanusvandervyver4211]

Just love how the elephants help each other

[@jcpenny3606]

Didn't seem like it. They all backed away. All they had to do was step on it and it's over.

[@somethinginspanish4753]

​@@jcpenny3606I'd say that's a normal reaction, because when humans get attacked they also takes a step back to analyze the situation before getting into action.

[@CarlosHernandez.RentaHouse]

@@jcpenny3606 Are you blind or what? they helped, look at the last elephant he tried to stomp the croc at the end of the video. They are animals, its a normal reaction to back away from danger but they didn't really go far, they stayed grouped !

[@jcpenny3606]

@@CarlosHernandez.RentaHouse It took them awhile to help. They should've responded immediately because that's a baby. They're elephants for christ sakes. Everyone is afraid of them, and they know that too.

[@Oddly1970]

@@jcpenny3606 What a few seconds yeah all right superman 😂

[@k-9ram600]

Bigger elephant : say hello to my feet. 😂

[@DGlock]

The other Elephants: "Yo cuz, you want us to stomp this fool out?" 😂😂😂

[@keithbrown8814]

Now that's funny!!!!!!😂

[@EAMonstah]

I brought back up 😂

[@SpeakerOfWords]

Elephant trunks are so underrated of how truly amazing and powerful it is

[@herryvaliant7689]

I don't think those in the the black market have the same idea

[@SpeakerOfWords]

@@herryvaliant7689 yeahhh, that's why it's the black market

[@ronbo30]

Thanks camera guy for not shaking the camera. Most get all excited, and the camera jumps all over.

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

Croc taking "got your nose" to a whole new level. XD

[@jamesl9371]

Go elephants! They always stick together

[@williambradford3469]

So sad, I hope the bro's trunk is OK.

[@SuperStargazer666]

Bro’s trunk? Are you an elephant too?

[@omccc]

@@SuperStargazer666 Don't expect TikTok people to be smart.

[@kinghector4865]

😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@SuperStargazer666

[@switch12345678]

@SuperStargazer666 Dude's trunk

[@vincentrobinson3078]

@@SuperStargazer666. 😂😂😂

[@AO-po6tc]

The elephants got shocked at first started backing up then came to there senses and started attacking saving his trunk boy was loud though 😂

[@darienchiba6682]

A primeira coisa que fizeram foi cercar os filhotes para protegê-los. Uma vez assegurado isso, um deles foi ajudar.

[@justinnmai8903]

He’s lucky he still has his trunk

[@bgjb-r1499]

It’s the after affects of the bite that’s dangerous, not necessarily the crocodile.

[@auto724]

Probably was infected afterwards because the elephants trunk is a very sensitive spot

[@jdos5643]

@@auto724yeah but crocs don’t carry rabies or anything. If anything the elephant is fine

[@meteorknight999]

​@@jdos5643the jungle carries everything even if the croc didnt

[@kartikutage2441]

Mr. Croc is definitely hidding underground somewhere 🤣🤣🤣

[@PeterNagy-oq5em]

elephants sound like f1 cars😂😂😂

[@sidneyyamanaka8133]

Os elefantes sao fortes e unidos, não são covardes. Defendem e lutam uns pelos outros ...

[@roseforyoubabe]

the so called baby elephant was carrying the croc away from the water lol it was in no danger

[@gunnarthorsen]

An elephant is a "baby" for two years and they're big at that age.

[@jamesmorrison2055]

Elephant probably died due to systemic infection. Crocodile teeth and saliva contain deadly bacteria.

[@vkvk7113]

It's not a baby. You can see this elephant is quite larger than a calf and has tusks that have grown out quite a bit. It's more like an adolescent

[@roseforyoubabe]

@@vkvk7113 it is not a adult at all not even close it is way to small

[@crappyanimations9992]

It was. Don't you know crocs have the strongest bite of any animal? Without the help of the heard, he would've lost a trunk.

[@samore11]

And so the legend of Scartrunk begins

[@danielschmitt1935]

The large female came up to pin him with her tusks. He smartly let go just before that happened. The croc learned from this..

[@cookiesfilmnetwork9937]

When nearly 4ton elephant stands on ur body ur letting go of anything and getting gone asap from that

[@christosdoesthings]

"Crocodile tries to take revenge for their cousins, instantly regrets it"

[@meteorknight999]

10v1 fight hardly fair The croc is actually mad lad for taking on elephant scaring them and still live

[@Hossak]

The croc knew it would not survive a stomping from that big one.

[@shudson23]

The biggest one came to give him a hydraulic check

[@peterclarke7240]

Croc: "ooh, a tasty snek!" Elly: "don't you dare call my brother a snek!" *stamp*

[@gunnarthorsen]

The young elephant had it's trunk in the crocodile's mouth until an older elephant "literally stepped in"? We see the older elephant approaching but that's all. Did it step on the crocodile? Did it tickle it until it let go? How is this an ending?

[@jamesmorrison2055]

You can see the crocodile got away without being stepped on.

[@zzirfamo24]

The full video is on here, the big elephant just barely touched it and the croc ran away

[@Darren51283]

The large elephant crushed it into the ground using its tusks, which convinced the crocodile to let go.

[@meteorknight999]

​@@Darren51283elephant cannt hit things close to ground with tusks it tried and failed to tusk croc

[@davidpitchford6510]

The origin of the exhortation, "Step on it!"

[@Egill2011]

How the elephant got his trunk. Exactly as Rudyard Kipling described it.

[@curiousnerdkitteh]

Hey that's true!

[@davehue9517]

Talk about biting off more than he could chew... literally

[@ytsux9259]

The croc attacked a small young elephant. If it were one of those bigger ones...

[@mikec7860]

Mama opened a can of whipass.

[@garysarratt1]

“Note to self: do NOT try to death roll these things.”

[@beekiddo4468]

Crocodiles way of saying Keep your nose out of my business....

[@paulremick4291]

I love how the bigger elephant stepped in to save the smaller elephant

[@S4H47]

Is there a unedited (original) version of this video (without text and music added to it)?

[@ThomasJr]

The comments here are depressing, only semi intelligent people posting

[@renegadeace1735]

Elephants help each other and zebras are just like, naa

[@jedibasschoke8909]

Big Momma elephant ‘oh no you didn’t, this crocs getting a size 50 to the head’

[@yidy1]

*"While shocked tourists watched helplessly."* C'mon now, who wrote this drivel?

[@fragelicious]

That giant Nile croc booked after the bigger Elephant moved in.

[@dustywilson5461]

now imagine a croc getting ahold of an elephant's other trunk

[@branjosnow6244]

Crocs make beautiful Elephant shoes.

[@thetruebeliever12]

Poor elephant can't take food and water after this

[@0OlIS5]

Even a half grown elephant not even close to being knocked over! And that was a huge croc.

[@QuarrellaDeVil]

"You do and I’ll give you *such* a pinch!"

[@michaelmccaskey2924]

That crocodile will be lucky if they don’t stomp on him that much weight coming down on a little animal like that one or two times done

[@samiswilf]

The croc thought it caught a big snake, only to realize it was an elephant trunk

[@flowsikoac376]

that croc is almost as big as a elephant and both are bigger than me an average human 😭

[@Bwv1046]

Well no a croc is 250-750kg on average and elephant is over 6000kg

[@Bwv1046]

@RefLEKS the largest saltwater ones get up to a ton but the one in this video seems like 400-600kg

[@keithbrown8814]

Still no match for a large Male bull elephant...sorry!!

[@lucasferreira028]

@Nihil there are no 1 ton crocs in Africa

[@lucasferreira028]

@Nihil there are no 1 ton crocs in Africa

[@lovetoka]

that's HUGE croc..

[@Arthurroo00]

That croc is big

[@JamesRattray]

Spoilt by TERRIBLE music. Why lot just leave the sounds of nature? Such a shame.

[@mmkr0000]

Tantor: "Mom, I told you there are piranhas in Africa"

[@meteorknight999]

Truly living dinosaurs it sent an entire herd of elephants running away 😂 Until they remembered they are elephants in group needing not run

[@giggles7179]

I'm curious as to whether anyone else was shocked by the family's behavior. In every nature documentary I've ever seen, a young elephant's family will protect their young at all costs. Its aunt is just as protective as its own mother. That's why I couldn't believe my eyes when not only did they all retreat, but they actually _watched_ as that young elephant suffered with agony until one finally stepped in (literally).

[@champuss]

It did come off though...maybe the croc didn't like a sausage

[@giggles7179]

After 50 views, those screams never fail to terrify. Within days of my first seeing it, I saw a baby elephant that had the lower half of its trunk ripped off entirely. That's not something an elephant can survive for long. Their trunk feeds them, leads them to water and helps them drink, grabs onto trees to reach higher branches for food, and even help them get out of situations where they fall into a pit and can only try to grasp something to pull itself up. Lastly - and if anyone agrees, please respond - I was really shocked by the family. In almost every other incident I've ever seen, a young elephant's family will protect their young at all costs. Its aunt is just as protective as its own mother. That's why I couldn't believe my eyes when not only did they all retreat, but they actually _watched_ as that young elephant suffered with agony until one finally stepped in (literally).

[@sebekglab]

If you look closely inside group are tow little elephant, probably one year old . Split second reaction for family was to surround little ones and back away from water. Then big one has counterattack crocodile.

[@jancosta6840]

boring captions!

[@erico1991]

Malawi is not east africa

[@_PhuckJoeBiden_]

I would have jumped out to help the elephant 😂😂😂

[@hyena131]

I Stand With The People Of France 🇫🇷 And I would've been there right behind you.

[@_PhuckJoeBiden_]

@@hyena131 💪🏽❤️💪🏽✊🏼

[@marksalver1765]

And the croc would’ve had a smaller and easier meal once the elephants got done trampling this second, stupider threat

[@_PhuckJoeBiden_]

@@marksalver1765 hey just because you're a giant p[_]$$y doesn't mean everyone is

[@hyena131]

@@marksalver1765 You are a fool to utter such nonsense. We are professional dinosaur wranglers and have pink belts in poojitsoo. And we were both in the British SAS. But don't tell anyone...

[@psychiatry-is-eugenics]

They ain’t smart enough to help

[@marksalver1765]

Who?

[@Henrys473]

Just needed another elephant to step on the croc, no assists

[@nickbuchner5911]

awwwwwww I almost cryed

[@lilenigga1155]

I cried and I have ptsd

[@user-ee5ro4vp3r]

No shortage of footage of elephants with only half a trunk. Not sure how long they survive.

[@blc2103]

The elephants trunk was not severed. Furthermore, elephant skin is EXTREMELY tough - particularly on their trunks - which are strong enough to uproot medium sized trees.

[@user-ee5ro4vp3r]

Never said it was severed but sometimes it is and that is a death sentence.

[@curiousnerdkitteh]

Who knows how badly crushed it was after a bite that strong though. Might be effectively broken.

[@draganfilipovic3888]

Brutal fight?

[@user-gv6lg9hm8b]

That didn’t end well for the croc

[@kashifmehmood8497]

Its only a french kiss not a bite

[@LH74]

That’s a huge croc (now he’s a huge pancake).

[@AA-tz2bm]

its alive

[@keithbrown8814]

...DO NOT....mess with elephants!!!

[@jinoziniosti5633]

Wafffle

[@meteorknight999]

It didnt die crocodiles are literally most immortal a living thing on rarth can be

[@boniedwa]

There is a high chance, that this elephant is already dead, because elephants can't eat with damaged trunk.

[@GrabbaBeer]

Animals heal, incase you weren’t aware

[@boniedwa]

@@GrabbaBeer Its a long process, incase you weren’t aware, mr. archeologist.

[@MarcelitoRecords]

Shut up

[@MrT-nh6di]

Elephant has a tough trunk.

[@lilenigga1155]

No it was a baby

[@nelsonx5326]

That was wild.

[@sondarang538]

But what if they all looked the same

[@thatone8085]

That croc got guts or simply blind.

[@robranko5931]

Crocks r baddassez elephant's are a badass family

[@darienchiba6682]

Esse crocodilo era realmente grande.

[@abitofapickle6255]

That's a big crocodile

[@smallnuts2]

You figured the elephants would charge in. Not backup. They take care of each other supposedly. Or is that only for the baby?

[@marksalver1765]

That’s a myth, really. I went on safari several years ago and watched through my binoculars as a big bull elephant in musth attacked, gored and knocked down the matriarch of a herd. Once she was down, he moved on into the herd and started mating with the nearby females. Not ONE of them came in to help their “precious family member”, and I didn’t see a single one of them come over to check on her as she lay there. The rangers radioed in that the matriarch was down and to send in medical staff, but she never got back up, at least not while we were there. Maybe elephants would do anything for their babies, but it seemed to me that they couldn’t care less about their other family members.

[@XMIR10C]

@@marksalver1765 BS buddy, you are a liar and I am calling you out. Show me your videos - I am sure you must have them.

[@curiousnerdkitteh]

​@marksalver1765 it's absurd how people sentimentalise animals and attribute human characteristics to them, and convince themselves they truly are "better than humans with so much to teach us about love". Probably why tourists keep trying to befriend dangerous creatures thinking they'll be friendly and getting horribly maimed or killed.

[@Andy-gw7hd]

Did we skip the fact the guy recording is pretty much in a paddle bass boat while looking at a croc that’s just the same size as the boat going on the head of the croc I would be backing up like tnis is the wrong river to be in

[@marksalver1765]

And you’d be smart, unlike the idiots saying they’d jump in to help

[@marchofares1390]

Could had been the camera man.

[@Piece-O-Pie]

How about some normal editing?

[@Terczynski1982]

But would he be able to eat?

[@ScubaNut22]

Looks like the male elephant took care of business while the others backed away.

[@johnpohn3299]

All were female there

[@rcnelson]

The elephant won by a nose.

[@bakecake6698]

I hate crocodiles and alligators. Glad the elephants protect each other

[@lovemcurvy3126]

That sucker was waiting in the grass for something. Huge!

[@aggabus]

Albeit. Very short remaining life.

[@blc2103]

Elephants have long lives.

[@XMIR10C]

I am calling out a poster called markSalver on some BS. Show us your vdeos please of a male bull coming into a female herd, goring the matriatch to death and mating with the younger females.

[@user-jv5cu4hz3q]

Crocodile didn't do well with that bull elephant crushing his skeleton.

[@TheHighlanderGirl]

Crocodile should have rolled to get at least a mouthful after all that.

[@kevincannon9564]

You gotta get a friend

[@TheHighlanderGirl]

@@kevincannon9564 😉

[@demonfighter4476]

Get some life

[@curiousnerdkitteh]

I know, it was risky otherwise.

[@aeforeve1234]

Спомнился один мультик ...

[@pargm9543]

Buffaloes should learn from elephants

[@andjelailic5845]

😣😭😢

[@mnoell35]

Crocodile was about to get stomped out!!

[@Oddly1970]

Don’t mess with elephants 🐘 it crushed the crocodile 🐊 skull like an egg shell..

[@tarcisiolima748]

Quando o grande foi em cima se ele não solta já era

[@MurphyTheOldMan]

Elephants look out for each other but not humans 🤣🤣 Humans take pleasure from watching others suffering 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@yunuskhan9425]

Yes absolutely right 😅😅

[@KnightmareShark20-ht7uu]

Dont forget the part where humans also would rather take their phone out to record because getting clout is more important to them than actually helping out.

[@user-jv5cu4hz3q]

Many humans hate watching the suffering of others. Speak for yourself.

[@whyayyyerrlaffinfhorr2152]

Thefk at least post the full footage

[@JustinTurdoCastro420]

Hey NYP i never forget, you made an enemy for life.

[@MarcosAntonio-zs4tz]

Parece que um camaleão grudou na tromba do filhotinho de elefante ?!! 😆

[@frankvee]

Elephant stuck its nose where it didn’t belong. But no worries… all it needs to do is put one foot on the crocodiles back and shift all its weight onto that foot.