Elephant killed in zoo enclosure by another bull elephant who attacked him while he slept

A young elephant has been killed after it sustained injuries in an attack by another elephant while it slept in a zoo enclosure.

LONDON -- A young elephant has been killed after it sustained injuries in an attack by another elephant while it slept in a zoo enclosure. The tragic incident occurred on Friday, June 18, at the Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm in Wraxhall, near Bristol on England’s West Coast, when a bull elephant went into the area where 12-year-old elephant, M’Changa, was sleeping and launched a brutal attack on the sleeping animal that left him with fatal injuries, according to a statement published by Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm. The zoo was not yet open to the public when the attack happened and the zoo’s other two bull elephants who were not involved in the incident, Shaka and Janu, were unharmed. The zoo said that the bull elephant group have 24-hour access to the outside and inside areas of their enclosure and that they are typically very social animals that need the option of being together when they want to be.