The reporter learned from the Yunnan Provincial Forest Fire Brigade that from 0:00 to 11:00 today (July 19), 14 elephants are in the monitoring range. The elephant herd is currently operating at Shiyantou Mountain, 1.2 km northwest of the Shiyantou Village Committee in Longwu Town, Shiping County, Honghe Prefecture, 1.3 km from xinping County, Yuxi City, and 11.5 km from the Kunmo Expressway.
The reporter noted that Shiping County, which has been continuously sunny and hot, ushered in a long-lost rainfall yesterday, according to the forecast, affected by low vortex shear, from 8 o'clock last night to 8 o'clock tonight, Shiping County had moderate rain in the shade, and heavy rain in some areas. Longwu Town has moderate rain, the temperature is between 16 and 21 °C, affected by the rainfall, the activity of the elephant herd slows down.
Due to the large area of Shiping planted with sugarcane, dragon fruit, corn and other crops, the elephant herd, the "walking and drinking group" came here and slowed down. While the elephants were enjoying their food, the baby elephants who loved to grab the camera played "peekaboo" this time. By the time drone footage finds them, the impatient baby elephant has begun to "fight".
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In the afternoon, the scorching sun gradually warms up and a pleasant breeze blows in the valley. The elephants who had just slept well set off in groups and came to a sugar cane field carefully selected by the elephants at the bottom of the mountain, and ate a "buffet dinner" together. But when the elephant father and elephant mother "feasted", the elephant baby played "peekaboo".
Yunnan Provincial Forest Fire Brigade Wild Asian Elephant Monitoring Group Leader D Group Tong Lei: Sugarcane seedlings at this time just have an appetite for elephants, but the baby elephants have not fully learned to eat these, and the lonely little guys hide in the corners of the sugarcane fields to play, and the height of the sugarcane seedlings is just not more than the body of the baby elephant. When we counted, we didn't find it at the beginning, and we were still a little anxious.
The monitoring team members zoomed in on the monitoring screen to identify two entangled elephant babies from the sugar cane field. This wrestling game, which belongs to the smallest individuals of the elephant group family, is extremely exciting: rolling, wrestling, head-to-head, sumo wrestling, and the two sides of the competition use their legs, noses, and backs together in order to gain the upper hand, and they have used their housekeeping skills. The elephant mother was not surprised by this, and continued to eat sugar cane calmly, allowing the elephant baby to toss and play.
A male elephant on the side could not look at it anymore, and with its big ears flapped out a pair of tusks, and came to the baby elephant to persuade him to fight. The elephant baby who was still competing just now saw that the situation was not good, and immediately became honest, and the second changed back to "good baby".
(Edited by Han Yonghui)