A California vineyard owner has died after being crushed by elephants while on a hunting expedition in Africa.

Ernie Dosio, 75, was hunting yellow-backed duikers in Gabon when the deadly April 17 incident occurred.

Dosio, who kept an extensive collection of animal heads in his home, was trampled to death when he and his guide stumbled into five female elephants with a calf in the Lope-Okanda rainforest, the Daily Mail reported.

Collect Africa, the Nigerian-based safari operator, confirmed Dosio’s death to the publication. The California-Hawaii Elks Association also confirmed Dosio’s death on Facebook.

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“It is with a most heavy heart and sadness that I am reporting the passing of Ernie Dosio earlier this week,” Tommy Whitman, secretary of Lodi Lodge 1900 and Central District Scouting chairman, wrote in a statement. “May all of our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and loved ones. He will be sorely missed.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to the U.S. Embassy in Gabon and the safari company.

An unnamed hunter in Cape Town who knew Dosio told the news outlet that Dosio had been “hunting since he could hold a rifle and had many trophies from Africa and the U.S.”

“Although many disagree with big-game hunting, all of Ernie’s hunts were strictly licensed and above board and were registered as conservation culls to manage animal numbers,” he said. “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.”

The hunting company would supply a shotgun and cartridges for the duiker hunt, he said.

The hunter added he believes Dosio and his guide surprised the elephants, who attacked because they felt threatened.

“I would rather not go into detail, but it is safe to assume it would have been quick,” he said. “Ernie was a very well-known and popular hunter in the U.S. and in Africa, and a very keen conservationist; he did a hell of a lot of charity work and was a really good guy. What happened has been deeply felt by many on both sides of the Atlantic.”

Dosio’s body is being repatriated to America with assistance from the U.S. Embassy.

Dosio owned Pacific AgriLands Inc., a Modesto, California, vineyard land management company with its own 12,000-acre vineyard, according to Lodi News.

Central Africa is home to roughly endangered 95,000 forest elephants, with the largest numbers being found in Gabon, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

We’ve all seen teams calling the NFL draft prospects they intend to select minutes before the card is turned in to the league. The moment often plays out on television or is shared on social media — but the Arizona Cardinals initially couldn’t connect for their call with Jeremiyah Love Thursday night.

It wasn’t a lack of trying; the club dialed the number they had for Love.

But, nope, no connection to the intended No. 3 overall draft pick. So the team’s brain trust calmy stepped back, took a breath, considered options and tried something else.

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And all the while underlings scrambled madly for a correct number.

“If you want me to tell you the honest-to-God truth, we had the wrong phone number,” Cardinals general manager Monti Ossenfort said later.

“The phone number that we were given was the wrong one and so that was a little bit of the delay. But we got that straightened out and we called Jeremiyah and got ahold of him. That is what the delay was, technical difficulties.”

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We have to thank Ossenfort for his transparency. But, on the other hand, yikes!

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What made matters somewhat more uncomfortable is the Cardinals actually were hoping to trade down from their No. 3 pick to add more draft resources later on. But there simply wasn’t the kind of demand for Love they had hoped.

“There was very minimal conversations, some surface-level but nothing that came anywhere close to getting us to move off the pick,” Ossenfort said.

Eventually, the club found the correct number for Love. And picked him.

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Here’s where it helps to understand that the NFL provides players with phones for the draft and then distributes those numbers to teams.

But after Shedeur Sanders last year had his number leaked to various sources — including the son of Falcons defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich who turned it into a prank phone call with his buddies — the league made changes this year.

The league limited access to prospects’ contact information to one person within each franchise.

It’s unclear if the person holding the numbers for the Cardinals relayed the digits incorrectly or got a bad number from the NFL. Whatever the case, it eventually got resolved.

Maybe the club called Love’s personal number because Ossenfort had it and had used it previously.

“We had a great interaction with him at the combine,” Ossenfort said. “I followed up with him with a call over the weekend and just had a great overall interaction. Like I said, you guys will get the chance to meet him, an impressive kid. Just really excited to add the person to our locker room.”

A chapter of a far-left organization at the University of California, Berkeley’s law school capped off a “Palestinian Political Prisoners Day” earlier this week with a message from a failed suicide car bomber who was jailed in Israel for eight years.

UC Berkeley Law Students for Justice Palestine shared a video on its Instagram account from convicted attempted car bomber Israa Jaabis, who thanked her western counterparts for supporting her cause.

“Firstly, I would like to thank [the students] for their attentiveness, for listening with their hearts,” Jaabis said, according to English translated subtitles attached to the video. “For many reasons, even their attendance is enough to make us feel — as liberated Palestinian prisoners — that there is someone who cares about us.”

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Jaabis was jailed in Israel from 2015 to 2023 after attempting to set off a car bomb during a traffic stop. The incident occurred near an area where Israeli soldiers would often gather and attempt to hitchhike. Both Jaabis and the Israeli officer, Moshe Chen, were severely burned during the terror attack.

While in prison, Jaabis made headlines for demanding cosmetic surgery on her badly scarred face. She was released in November 2023 in a prisoner exchange as the Israeli government attempted to free hostages taken by Hamas militants in the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack.

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“There are those who are in solidarity with us, those who support us and do not abandon us,” Jaabis said in the video. “Your attendance — in particular as law students — makes us hopeful that there remains some humanity, that there is someone to support us in the future, delivering our message to the international community and amplifying our call to liberate Palestinian prisoners, as well as to liberate societies from servitude and from bigotry which produces populations complicit in perpetrating inhumane laws.”

Critics on X blasted both the event organizers and UC Berkeley itself.

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“Berkeley being a leftist cesspool is not something that should surprise you,” said one X user.

“Muslims must be laughing at the insane stupidity of the ‘enlightened’ useful idiots here in the West,” said another.

“This stuff keeps me up at night. I don’t understand how the world just rewrites morality to fit it’s political agenda,” said another.

A spokesperson for UC Berkeley Law said the school’s hands were tied.

“As a public university, UC Berkeley has a non-discretionary obligation to abide by and support the First Amendment in a completely content neutral manner,” Alex Shapiro, assistant dean of communications, said. “We do not have the legal ability to sanction or censor Constitutionally protected expression.”

“However, as UC Berkeley has repeatedly informed the student body, if any campus community member feels threatened, they are encouraged to contact the Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination. OPHD provides support to those harmed, investigates all allegations, and the campus takes appropriate steps following any findings.”