Nasty, brutish and short

26 October 2016 - 09:45
By GRAEME HOSKEN

Broken Tusk stands firm, ears flapping in anger. The six-ton elephant refuses to budge, jealously guarding his bales of lucerne. His enemies are not, for now, poachers. It's three starving rhinos. For months they have scrounged for food. Now that it's arrived they are desperate, and won't back down in reaching it, not even for an elephant.

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