# Elephant culture disintegrating? Elephants begin to rape and pillage

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**Created:** [October 11, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/elephant-culture-disintegrating-elephants-begin-to-rape-and-pillage/203542 "2006-10-11T21:34:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anogar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Anogar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Anogar)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/elephant-culture-disintegrating-elephants-begin-to-rape-and-pillage/203542/1 "2006-10-11T21:34:26Z")

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According to many of the world’s leading experts, the very fabric of ‘elephant culture’ has been disrupted by poaching, culling, and other issues. This is leading to more ‘crimes’ committed by elephants worldwide - including but not limited to raping and murdering rhinos…

> **[An Elephant Crackup?](https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08elephant.html?em&ex=1160712000&en=0d17a29fe50b61e5&ei=5087)**
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> Attacks by elephants on villages, people and other animals are on the rise. Some researchers are pointing to a species-wide trauma and the fraying of the fabric of pachyderm society.

How disturbing! An elephant and a rhino… huh?! :cantlook: