(AP) — Every winter about 10,000 elephant seals make their way to California'sAño Nuevo State Park to fight, mate and give birth ... “So most elephant seals come back to the same beach where they were born.
The Forest department said that tourists playing loud music is causing a significant disturbance to local wildlife, posing a threat to public safety ....
Don’t look now but there is an elephant in the room. Well, it’s not a room exactly. It is our state government. And it’s not an elephant, either. It is our Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, which they want to pretend ... .
Another panchayat samiti member, Shamim Ansari, said the villagers had already been alerted through WhatsApp groups about the movement of the elephant.“This elephant, which has strayed from its herd, has reportedly killed two persons earlier.
“The marauding tusker’s violent attacks is an unprecedented thing to happen in our district in recent memory but otherwise we are experiencing elephant herds attacks on our houses, fields and on our people on a regular basis.
The incident occurred around 12.30 am in ward number 3 of Jaithari town when the elephants entered the inhabited area ... One of the elephants grabbed him with its trunk and slammed him to the ground, leaving him critically injured.
For an elephant, dying of natural causes and old age is something of a rare feat - due to poaching for ivory and habitat loss, elephant populations have been plummeting for the past 25 years.