Stubborn Elk Lock Horns
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The short story is that two Nevada elk butted heads and locked horns in a debate over a female. A rancher in the Reese River Valley saw the two one day, but did not see them again for a week. He called the Nevada Division of Wildlife who sent out a couple of wardens armed with tranquilizer darts to try to calm and then separate the animals. When the elk saw the wardens with rifles, they trotted off together like the best of buddies, or else co-joined twins.

The wardens followed the pair for a mile or two, then put a dart in one of them. The one animal dragged the other down, so the wardens darted him too.

The elk were seperated with a saw blade to the horns. The least dopey elk got up with a snort and scattered the human helpers. He ran off leaving his erstwhile buddy and former foe.

Both elk survived the more than week-long bonding and lived to rut again next year.