Tonight on a Discovery Channel there was a show about elephants that attack. There were several cases shown where they attacked and killed people and they euthanized the elephants and moved them or tried to run them back into the woods. In one case the elephant started to run down the street from a circus and they did kill it; but in none of the others.

If it had been a dog, alligator, bear, shark or large cat, they would have captured it and killed it, but not the elephants. I'm not saying they should kill the elephants but what is the difference. Elephants must be so large that they would have a hard time disposing of the body. I don't see why they need to kill any of them. People wouldn't be harmed by any of them, with the exception of the dog. People are encroaching on the animal territories creating smaller ecosystem and hunting grounds for these animals and when one of them harms a person, we kill the animal. I say either move the animal or better educate the public. Animals shouldn't be killed just because someone decided it should be done. People are playing God with the lives of animals.

Any thoughts?