Baby Elephant Isolated From Mother Used For Selfies Then Die
Wednesday, July 10, 2019 IST
Excited bystanders in an Indian village spot a baby elephant and rush to take pictures with it.
The calf was following its own mother and another elephant into the built up area looking for food. It is believed that the calf had been carrying an injury when it ventured out of the forest.
The incident took place in the village of Kurubarahandi, situated in the southern part of Karnataka. The villagers were alarmed to see the approaching elephants. They started to shout and use crackers to drive the animals away from their crops. All the ruckus caused the calf and mother to separate.
The older elephants quickly ran away from the human attackers but the calf was too weak and slow to follow. Being scared, it began to cry for its mother.
Times of India reports how the villagers soon surrounded the calf to take pictures and selfies with it when the older elephants had left. The mother did return to take back her calf but by then the forest officials had taken it to treat for the injuries it had sustained from the forest.
The vet cared for the calf with glucose, milk, and injections. But unfortunately the calf passed away a few hours later.
While we hue and cry to save the pachyderms from poachers, we fail to realize how the human-wildlife conflict kills the animals as well.
Related Topics
Related News & Articles
Have you ever wondered who pays the bank dues in this situation or whether the heir has to pay the remaining loan or is there some other rule for this?
Recently posted . 1K views . 1 min read
Grandmothers are as much loved for their homemade pie as they are for the love and affection they showered on us as grandchildren. But Science has also proved what ...
Recently posted . 643 views . 3 min read
Fourteen Turkish fighters were killed and 33 injured in conflicts with Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria on Wednesday in the military's most noteworthy sing...
Recently posted . 764 views . 29 min read
In a statement on its Facebook page on Monday, museum officials said they uncovered “40 kilos of plastic bags, including 16 rice sacks, four banana plantati...
Recently posted . 803 views . 3 min read
It’s guaranteed that you have or will run into some of these Latin terms in anything including the lightest reading. That’s because they’re ever...
Recently posted . 1K views . 7 min read
Trending News & Articles
ALMATY: Hour upon hour, day upon day, Omir Bekali and other detainees in far western China's new indoctrination camps had to disavow the...
Recently posted . 202K views . 1 min read
If you have payed attention to the belly buttons of people on the beach or the members of your family, you have probably noticed that they have different shapes and...
Recently posted . 9K views . 2 min read
In this age of terror, there might be nothing more terrifying than the thought of an attack carried out with chemical weapons. We’ve all heard the horrific ...
Recently posted . 4K views . 4 min read
Body fitness is one thing that everyone wants to maintain irrespective of age. Going to the gym and doing some great exercise always helps to maintain your body fit...
Recently posted . 4K views . 2 min read
More in Global
Four judges of the Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of publicly criticising the chief justice. Donald Trump denied using vulgar language about Haiti and co...
Recently posted. 745 views . 1 min read
Some time back, as I was #netflixandchilling with Sex Education in the privacy of my room, my mother, like most other Indian parents, entered without knocking to re...
Recently posted. 775 views . 5 min read
Elham, from Afghanistan's ethnic Hazara minority, enchanted audiences with her high-pitched, raspy voice, performing Hazara and Persian folk music in traditio...
Recently posted. 725 views . 1 min read
Recently posted . 944 views
Recently posted . 643 views
Recently posted . 4K views
Recently posted . 1K views
Recently posted . 2K views . 67 min read
Recently posted . 1K views . 49 min read
तब साइकिल चलाना इतना आसान नहीं था क्योंकि तब घर में साइकिल बस पापा या चाचा चलाया करते थे.
Recently posted. 250 views . 0 min read
Washington: Michael Flynn, US President-elect Donald Trump`s pick for national security counsel, accepted a telephone call a month ago from Russia`s ambassador to t...
Recently posted. 733 views . 8 min read