An ultra-wealthy big game hunter received a cruel twist of fate while going after a wanted prey in Africa.

The Daily Mail reported on Friday that 75-year-old multi-millionaire Californian vineyard owner Ernie Dosio was hunting alongside a professional hunter in the Lope-Okanda forest of Gabon last week to try to get a shot at a shy and elusive antelope called the yellow-backed duiker when he met a brutal fate.

As Dosio and the other hunter went deeper into the rainforest to find the duiker, they unexpectedly stumbled into five female elephants with a calf.

The startled and angry animals promptly charged after Dosio and his professional hunter.

The professional hunter was violently thrown aside and lost his gun in the bushes. He suffered serious injuries but survived.

Dosio, however, was trampled to death by the elephants.

The Mail notes that the elephants were so well hidden in the undergrowth that they seemingly appeared out of nowhere.

A retired game hunter in Cape Town who knew Dosio told the Daily Mail that the now-deceased man’s hunts were all about conservation.

He added that Dosio also booked a hunt for dwarf forest buffalo and was barred from carrying his own guns by “strict” licensing laws.

“Ernie has been hunting since he could hold a rifle and has many trophies from Africa and the U.S.,” The hunter told the Mail. “Although many disagree with big-game hunting, all Ernie’s hunts were strictly licensed and above board and were registered as conservation in culling animal numbers.”

“Ernie had booked a hunt for dwarf forest buffalo and duikers, in particular the yellow-backed duiker, and, under strict licensing laws, he could not take along his own guns,” he added. “The hunting company would supply a shotgun and cartridges for the duiker hunt.”

Dosio, over the course of several years, had hunted a variety of critically endangered and vulnerable species in Africa, including elephants, leopards, rhinos, and lions.

He had also hunted almost every species of deer in the United States.

Dosio leaves behind his long-term partner Betty and his two sons, Jeff and Blake. Per the Daily Mail, Dosio’s body is being repatriated by the US Embassy in Gabon to Lodi in California.

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