Beware of Elephants

An American woman has been trampled to death by an elephant in a Tanzanian national park after it became enraged by the clicking sounds of her camera. Natalie Waldinger, 24, of Huntington, N.Y., died Sunday in Ruaha National Park in central Tanzania, during a break in her tour as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer teacher in this East African nation. Ms. Waldinger and an unidentified American female left their car to photograph the wild animal. The pair was travelling with a driver who was not an official guide. Waldinger's friend scrambled to safety. ''People seem to forget that animals in our national parks are wild and are not in a zoo. Contact with tourists ... has not tamed these animals at all and their behaviour remains unpredictable,'' Tanzania’s tourism Minister Zakia Meghji said, according to AP news agency.