A tanker of Kanan Devan company at Chenduvarai tea plantation in Munnar was the watering hole for a thirsty tusker on Friday.With the summer peaking, pachyderms in the parched Munnar forests have started straying into the human habitats in search of water.
A tanker of Kanan Devan company at Chenduvarai tea plantation was the watering hole for a thirsty tusker on Friday. The elephant drank up three-fourths of the water from the tanker.
Herds of elephants leaving the forests for water sources in human habitats is a common sight in Munnar this summer. In the past also, several cases of the giant mammals attacking men were reported from the region. Recently a man was killed by a tusker when he was lighting a candle at a cross near Devikulam.
This month the notorious 'Padayappa', a wild elephant raiding farm fields regularly in Munnar areas, had strayed into a footballs field near the Munnar-Marayur road, giving some tense moments to the local 'Messi'es.
A 1000-kg bison had crashed into a house in Marayur, not far from the Munnar foothills, earlier this month. The wild visitor had apparently slipped on to the asbestos roof and crash-landed into the house on the roadside at Palanattil in Marayur town. In its desperate effort to find an escape route, it destroyed almost everything in the small house.
Last year, a king cobra drinking water from a plastic bottle held out by a wildlife officer had made waves on the Internet.
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