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Me too - but the tuskless cows in other parts of Africa don't seem to be as aggressive as the Zambezi ladies and I'd say the Zambezi ladies (esp the tuskless ones) get hunted harder than those elsewhere in Africa......... so that's why I reckon their being hunted could well be the reason for the added aggression....... hence my comment, but it's just one of my pet theories and I could well wrong.........

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Steve,

I have to dissagree with you here. The reason being that the most agressive tuskless cows I have been around were in Uganda (where they haven't been hunted for many years, besides occational poaching, and in that case it isn't the tuskless that are interesting for the ivory poachers).

Also, in Botswana, I encountered tuskless cows in Moremi. These were also extremely agressive (as it seemed all elephant were in Moremi), and again, the tuskless there are not hunted.

At least that is what I observed when compairing the tuskless cows I hunted in Zim last year, with the numerous other elephant I've been around in other African countries where they aren't hunted.

Erik

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