African Elephants Trample Skilled California Hunter to Death
A wealthy big-game hunter from California was ambushed and trampled to death by five elephants as he hunted small forest antelopes in central Africa earlier this month.
Californian vineyard owner Ernie Dosio, 75, who had trophy rooms in his home filled with his collection of exotic animal heads, was caught off guard with his guide when the herd emerged out of the underbrush where they were concealed and charged the hunting party, according to a report in the Daily Mail.
The fatal encounter took place in the Lope-Okanda rainforest and involved five female elephants with a calf, according to the Mail.
Millionaire US big game hunter, 75, is trampled to death by five elephants while hunting antelope in central Africa https://t.co/ipMRZvLKyK
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) April 24, 2026
A professional hunter was guiding Dosio in the thick forest of Gabon for a $40,000 fee in search of a shot at the “elusive yellow-backed duiker.”
Over the decades Dosio reportedly has hunted elephants, leopards, rhinos, buffalo, and lions across Africa, and back home in the United States he hunted almost every species of wild deer. (Read more from “African Elephants Trample Skilled California Hunter to Death” HERE)
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