Female Crankiness in an Elephant

Bulls are not the only ones who snap!!! Females can be even more dangerous because they generally don't give up until they get their target.

I've seen several cranky females during my 10 year stunt as a mahout. Here's another example.
Koh Samui is known for exporting coconuts, which means that we have coconut leaves as food for elephants and of course plenty of coconuts for mahout and elephant. The mahouts would often climb the tree and throw us a few coconuts to refresh our thirst in the heat of the day. The flesh of these coconuts was hard and unpalatable to us, but they were great for the elephants. We would drink the water and then pass on the coconut to an elephant. We passed a few coconuts to Sau, a now 5 year-old female, and she would promptly step on them, crack them open and eat the flesh first. Now we had about 7 peacocks which roamed freely on the premises. They caught on to this and it turned out they loved coconut flesh too.
Cleverly they would wait for the elephant to open the coconut and then try to steal some of this good stuff!
Sau did not take kindly to this game at all. Once I saw her slap a peacock so hard that the poor thing went flying through the air for approx. 5 meters and crash-landed on the banks. The peacock was groggy for about 15 minutes and I couldn't believe what that peacock did next! It came back for more!!!
By now Sau got really angry. She tried to trample the peacock. Fortunately, that peacock caught on to this and avoided too close a range to Sau. Since that day, I nicknamed the peacock "a fancy chicken", because if you look closely at it's head....it's about the same size as a chicken!