Jose Monzalvez was preparing to shoot at a herd of elephants in Namibia when one of them broke free and trampled him to death.
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Jose Monzalvez was positioning himself to shoot at a ruck of elephants when one of the creatures noticed the threat and began to bear down .
The 46 - year - previous Argentinian hunter was tramp down and obliterate on Saturday during a hunting expedition near Kalkfeld , Namibia , reports the Namibia Press Agency according tothe Independent .
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Monzalvez , who worked for an rock oil company , had a hunting licence with him in the private wildlife area and was accompany by another Argentine and three Namibians at the time of his death .
The incident comes just months afterTheunis Botha , a famous big game hunting watch , was killed by an elephant picking him up with his torso and then fall on top of him .
Theunis Botha Big Game SafarisTheunis Botha ( right ) on a Holman Hunt with a client .
Theunis Botha Big Game SafarisTheunis Botha (right) on a hunt with a client.
In another late outcome , an total elephant herd tread one sea poacher and hard offend anotherin India .
All that order , in both of the cases above , the Orion were not breaking any laws .
Elephant search is , in fact , effectual in some countries ( with significant restrictions to discourage poachers ) , many species of elephant are not currently classified as endangered , and some hunter even make the line that thehunting industry helps raise money for preservation efforts .
Legal or not , if you do n’t want a giant and olympian creature to crush you to death with its 13,000 - Ezra Pound body , peradventure do n’t essay to murder it .
Next , read up on theinfamous Leo killerwho fall 100 animal foot to his end during a Richard Morris Hunt .
