When I think of bullying, I think of African Elephants. Actually
it was a CBS News story some years ago called "The Delinquents."
South Africa Game rangers discovered that a new group of
juvenile delinquents had been attacking and killing the white
rhinoceros, the rhino they've spent years protecting. The prime
suspects were not humans, but elephants. A group of young
elephants who were orphaned as young calves were now
adolescents. They had grown up without role models. In addition
to killing rhinos, they acted aggressively toward tourist
vehicles. Researchers eventually decided to kill the elephants.
They may have been juvenile delinquents but there's no reform
school for elephants. But the rangers wanted to avoid killing
the delinquents. The solution turned out to be the biggest Big
Brother program in the world. The rangers decided to bring in
some larger bull elephants. The bigger, older elephants
established a new hierarchy, in part by sparring with the
younger elephants to discourage them from unaccepta