bigpoppanils Posted December 9 Report Share Posted December 9 Hungry Thai elephants raid villages, hijack sugarcane trucksDecember 9, 2003Hungry elephants have gone on the rampage in eastern Thailand, ransacking villagers' plantations and forcing sugarcane trucks to stop so they can raid their goods, a report said yesterday.Dry-season shortages have forced the 130 elephants from Ang Lue Nai wildlife sanctuary, which sprawls over five provinces, to seek food and water in nearby settlements, the sanctuary's chief Yoo Senatham told the Bangkok Post.Yoo said the elephants had learned to pick up sugarcane dropped by drivers who took pity on them, but that the practice had taught them dangerous new habits.He told the daily of incidents where the leader of the herd had stood in the road to block the vehicle while the others unloaded the produce with their trunks.Faced with the shortage of natural fodder in the jungle, the animals were now "just waiting for food to be dropped, rather than looking for food. This is dangerous," he said.Truck drivers are now banned from dropping food in the hope the elephants will stop their aggressive behaviour.Yoo said villagers would build an electric fence to protect their crops and set up a mechanism so they could mobilise quickly to disperse the animals when they came on a raid. AFP Copyright © 2003. The Sydney Morning Herald. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted December 9 Report Share Posted December 9 Those bastard elephants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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