Pink Elephants!

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By ONLINE REPORTER

Published: 23 Oct 2007

SIX wild elephants were electrocuted after they went on a booze-fuelled rampage in India.

The beasts - part of a 40-strong herd of Asiatic elephants in India’s remote northeast - uprooted an electric pole while looking desperately for food on Friday in the village of Chandan Nukat.

They were tanked up on rice beer.

“There would have been more casualties had the villagers not chased them away,” said Dipu Mark, a local conservationist.

The elephants are known to have a taste for rice beer brewed by tribal communities in India’s northeast.

Four wild elephants died in a similar way in the region three years ago.

Last week, five rare Asiatic lions were found electrocuted on the edge of western India’s Gir National Park.

Authorities said the lions were killed by an electrified fence that a villager had put up illegally to protect crops near the sanctuary.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article378375.ece

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Drunken elephants go on rampage

At least 6 in India killed after elephants get into rice beer

Dec 17, 2002 - At least six persons were crushed to death by wild elephants that went amok after getting drunk on rice beer near Guwahati, India. A forest official said the herd went on the rampage Monday in Tinsukia district.

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"They smashed huts and plundered granaries and broke open casks to drink rice beer. The herd then went berserk killing six persons," according to a Reuters report.

Wild elephants have been targeting areas where people brew large volumes of rice beer. "We have come across devastating drunken bouts by herds that have developed a liking for country liquor," Kushal Sharma, a noted elephant expert, said.

In the last two years, elephants have killed at least 150 people. Villagers, in turn, have killed up to 200 of the animals.

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well we did come from the trees I guess......at some point....so to them we shall um return? I guess....?

Drunken Elephants on the Rampage

Women in Jarkhand, India have become so frightened of the herds of wild elephants plaguing their district that they are giving birth in trees. In the past two months, at least a dozen women have chosen to deliver their babies on specially-constructed platforms high off the ground. Sonia Hansda spent nearly three weeks in her tree before her baby came. Her husband carried her to the platform just moments before a herd of elephants knocked down the walls of their house. Angi Rani, a woman in a nearby village, also retreated into the trees before giving birth, but her baby died after being hit by a stone another villager threw at a marauding elephant. The elephants have been displaced by encroaching development; when they leave their shrinking habitats, there is nowhere for them to go but into settled areas. But something more than the destruction of their forest preserves may be to blame for their increasing raids on human habitats. According to a police officer in Dumka: "[People brew] rice beer ... at home. Elephants too are fond of this beer. Often it is found that, attracted by the strong smell of the liquor, wild elephants tear down the ... houses where the brew is stored." Last year, some 350 people in eastern India were killed by elephants. Villagers armed with drums, sticks, torches and fireworks have failed to drive them away, as have domesticated elephants imported for the purpose.

(news.com.au, April 9, 2003)

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