Baby elephant 'Durga' to be Dudhwa mascot
India | Nov 04, 2019, 12:01 PM ISTDurga has been extremely popular with tourists. She is said to be friendly and allows tourists, especially children to click selfies with her.
Durga has been extremely popular with tourists. She is said to be friendly and allows tourists, especially children to click selfies with her.
Staff at Khao Yai National Park discovered the two struggling elephants and the carcasses after dawn Saturday near the Haew Narok waterfall, also known as the Ravine of Hell.
Amazingly, the calf became too friendly with the officials and began following them wherever they went. So, they decided to keep the calf with the forest department and rear it as a kumki (tame).
The Delhi Police "detained" the jumbo along with its mahout, Saddam, from Yamuna Pusta area in the national capital around 3 am, he said.
The Esala Perahera festival (also known as the Festival of the Tooth) is an annual Buddhist festival celebrated with elegant costumes, performers and decorated elephants in Kandy, located in central Sri Lanka.
The woman had brought the tusks from Assam, concealed inside her side bag, under instructions from her husband and was about to hand over the same to him in the station itself.
This is the second incident of electrocution of wild tuskers in Dudhwa buffer zone. On July 8, 2011, three wild tuskers-- a male, female and their calf-- were killed due to electrocution.
Forest officials in Uttar Pradesh who have been grappling with the problem of two wild tuskers wandering in the western part of the state have not even heard of the technique of elephant whisperers that can tame these wild giants.
A 72-year-old man has been trampled to death by an elephant in Burgur forest here while he was herding cattle home, police said Friday.
Assam Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on Thursday sought the intervention of the Ministry of Environment to stop the transportation of four elephants to Ahmedabad for the July 4 Rath Yatra procession.
The Madras High Court has directed the principal chief conservator of forests and the chief wildlife warden to immediately take possession of a female elephant allegedly being used for begging by the wife of a mahout.
A group of American tourists had witnessed eight men violently beating an elephant at Amber Fort in June last year, and the animal is still being forced to give rides.
A bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur directed the owners of the other resorts and hotels located in the area to place their documents of approval before the collector within 24 hours.
This is the first known video-documentation of a wild elephant exhibiting such behaviour.
The carcass was found yesterday evening along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, Divisional Forest Officer Rajen Choudhury said.
The elephant threw the man in the air as he tried to kiss it after feeding a few bananas to the animal.
Other places where the Elephant parade has taken place include Suzhou, Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Hong Kong. It was also organised in Taiwan.
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