Thirty elephants took part in the Elephant race (Anayottam) which marked the opening of10-day annual festival at the Shree Krishna temple at Guruvayoor on 20th February 2016 Saturday. Gopikannan, the elephant of Guruvayoor Devasom won the race and did a hat-trick. Elephants Chentamarakshan and Kanan finished second and and third respectively.
Three mahouts and one woman were killed in elephant attacks during festival parades in Kerala, India in the last three weeks. The woman was killed by an elephant at Sabarimala Sannidhanam. Elsewhere elephants also killed mahouts at three different festivals – Ayyappan Vilakku at Narayanankulangara, near Tripunithura, a festival of Shiva temple at Thrithala and…
One hundred houses crushed in Siliguri, Dabgram, West Bengal, eastern India as a wild elephant on a rampage mission flattened several houses. This is the effect of global warming on wildlife raw shocking moment. Panic stricken people started running helter-skelter and Forest personnel rushed to the spot to drive away the Pachyderm to the forest.…
Gracefulness has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul – William Hazlitt.
Tanzanian elephant poachers kill a British helicopter pilot working for the Friedkin conservation Fund charity. Roger Gower was tracking poachers on Friday, 29th January 2016, when the helicopter flew near the carcass of one of the three elephants, in the Maswa Game Reserve, which borders the Seregeti National Park in northern Tanzania, when he was…
Stunned bystanders watch as a farmer in Kerala, India, squeezes goats out of pyton. When the farmer found the 6–feet- long python lying on the road with his stomach bloated and unable to move after it swallowed a goat and baby goat. The farmer proceeded to squeeze the python’s stomach to release the goats. But…
Kerala Heritage Animal Task Force said: a total of 14 people including 9 mahouts, died in Kerala, India, in 2015 due to elephant attacks. Historically most of the mishaps occurs when elephants who were on “masth” became violent when they were brought to festivals or for doing heavy work. There are statutory laws which exists…
A thirsty leopard was walking with its head stuck in a vessel in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan India, after it craned inside a pot in the hope of finding water to drink and had to wait over 12 hours before the Foresters came to its rescue. The three year male cat ventured into fields…
A Mahoot had a lucky escape after the temple elephant from Quilon, Kerala, as the elephant went mad and toppled him to the ground.
33 elephants killed in 18 months by tuskers as five smugglers and poachers admitted that their gang killed at least 15 in Western Ghats,Tamil Nadu’s Ootty, Coimbatore and Meghamalai forests in India and traded more than 200 kg of Ivory. Elephant numbers have dropped by 62 per cent over the last decade, and they could…