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Wen 丨 Li Moon Mammoth Girl
I rarely write about animals, but this time it's so interesting.
These days, there is a group of elephants, hanging on the hot search every day.
Hundreds of media follow up the report every day, and even CCTV's "News 1+1" has deliberately studied this matter.
The situation is as follows:
There is a group of wild elephants that originally lived in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan.
In March last year, somehow, they suddenly left the reserve in a group and headed north.
For more than a year, they have passed through many cities and villages, entered houses, ate noodles, drank toast, bathed in ponds, wandered the streets, walked on the highway...
I played it myself, but it tossed us humans enough.
Today, they have arrived in Kunming.
Such a long journey north as the elephant herd is rare in the world, and it is also the first time in China.
This is a wild Herd of Asian Elephants, the closest to humans.
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When the elephants set out last year, there were 16 of them.
They slowly walked to Pu'er City, where they stayed for a long time, and a female elephant gave birth to a baby elephant, and the members of the "North Upper Regiment" became 17.
The 17 continued to wander north and entered Yuxi City.
When they went up and down the mountain and passed through the village, they ran to the villagers' cornfield to eat sea plugs, trampled on a large piece of cornfield, and pulled a few lumps of rice to keep as a souvenir.
One night, two of the elephants also ran to the farmer's house to drink toast, only to get drunk and not keep up with the large army the next day.
The two did not chase, and returned to their hometown in the south together.
This is the right choice for a mistake.
Because there are good days in the south, the higher the altitude and the less food there is, the more the road is at the end of the road.
However, the remaining 15 elephants, still with a confused obsession, continued to go north.
In May, they came to a county town nearby, still tossing and turning.
He went to the villager's house with a big wave, opened the door and entered the courtyard, and saw no outside.
Halfway on the highway, the management had to seal the highway and let them go first.
Once, the baby elephant accidentally fell into the ditch, and the mother tried her best to get it up.
There was also a baby elephant that ate 200 pounds of lees (also a dry rice elephant) from the villagers' homes, and ended up drunk on the spot.
After a night of hangover, he also dropped out the next day.
It could not find the elephant herd that had already set off, so it had to change from "group tour" to "free travel".
The little guy walked around on the field stem for a while to see the scenery, and the next moment took a bath in the pond.
That whole day, many netizens were anxious for it.
Fortunately, in the evening, the little elephant who had woken up drunk finally found the big troops.
Among the 15 wild elephants of the "Northbound Regiment", there are 6 female elephants, 3 male elephants, 3 teenagers and 3 children.
It is composed of several families, but who and who is a family is not easy to say.
When they migrate, they are usually led by a female elephant who is responsible for leading the way, two male elephants walk on both sides as guards, and the baby elephant is in the middle.
Finally, there was a vigilant elephant, far behind, to protect the safety of the herd.
It is this "vigilant elephant" that keeps a guard on the side of the road
Elephants would help each other take care of each other's children.
Eating in the wild, everyone will take great care of the baby elephant, not only the mother protects the child, but the older brothers and sisters will also help the younger siblings.
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On May 27, the elephant herd arrived in the main city.
Fifteen elephants swung around the main road, filling the driveway in an instant.
In order to open the way for them and avoid danger, the police evacuated the crowd urgently.
The local residents walked all the way back to take pictures, which is a once-in-a-lifetime scene!
Elephants may also be quite ignorant in this strange environment.
Where is this? How come there are so many people?
But they calmly crossed the obstacles on the road and trotted happily for a while.
The elephant herds that entered the city made a lot of trouble.
In order to forage for food, they swim in groups of three or five.
As soon as residents push the door, they may find that there are two more elephants in their yard.
One of the elephants also broke into the pigsty of the villagers' houses.
Not only did it collapse the pigsty, but it also smoked a piglet with a long nose and smoked the piglets.
One villager, although he received the evacuation notice, took a chance and stayed at home.
As a result, 6 elephants ran in together, scaring the couple into running to the roof to avoid danger.
Elephants entered the door, rummaged through boxes and cabinets, and poured out the corn that others had put in their bags to eat.
The elephants ate the 200 kilograms of corn and ran to the field to forage, easily eating two greenhouses.
When you have eaten enough, you have to drink water.
Six elephants broke into a car sales store and drank two tons of water in one gulp.
The head of the team, who also likes to play with cars, broke 47 cars on the road.
In just 40 days near the city, the elephants "caused" 412 accidents, destroyed 842 acres of farmland, and caused 6.8 million economic losses.
Fortunately, the damage caused by elephants is paid for by the government and insurance companies.
Of course, money is not money, or small things.
The key is human safety.
Elephants wandering around like this, it is inevitable that they will have direct contact with people, will they hurt people in the end?
Some experts say:
Elephants, sometimes it's playing with you.
But it's so powerful that you can't play with it.
I really can't afford to play, we have a hundred pounds, it is nearly ten thousand pounds, why play?
It's easy to say when it's in a good mood, and if you're a little upset, you can't stand stepping on it casually.
If you're too happy and roll you up and throw you out, you can't stand it.
So, we still have to hide a little bit.
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On May 31, the "Wild Elephant Tour Group" arrived near Yuxi.
There is a three-way road here, and if it is correctly induced, it can be introduced into the forest area and avoid the living area.
On June 1, the local government prepared nearly 4 tons of food, bananas, corn, pineapples... Placed at the intersection, feeding induction.
The herd of elephants stayed here for a full 8 hours.
After eating and drinking enough, they entered the forest area as we wished.
On June 2, in order to catch the trail of elephants in the forest area, drones were activated in Yunnan.
In the end, a total of 7 batteries were changed before they were finally found.
In the process, the elephants ran to the homes of several villagers and stole rice and noodles from others.
As a result, people did not have the intention of returning to their hometown after eating, and turned back and went north again.
Today, they have left Yuxi and entered Kunming.
Netizens speculated that Yuxi should also breathe a long sigh of relief.
Kunming said it was very nervous.
The monitoring team, the emergency team, the experts, all waited.
At the scene, 12 unmanned aerial vehicles continuously monitored, urgently increased the number of muck trucks, blocked the surrounding roads into the village, and quickly organized the evacuation of the masses.
A total of 10 tons of food were also prepared to entertain this group of uninvited guests.
At this moment, the mood of the citizens is that they are afraid of coming, and they are afraid that they will not come, and they are afraid that they will come randomly...
This has now become international news.
Hundreds of millions of netizens are watching every day.
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So now the problem is.
The elephant herd has walked a full 500 kilometers this way, and when are they going to be a head, and where do they want to go?
Netizens have a variety of opinions:
Stayed in the mountains for a long time and went into the city to walk around.
I want to go back to Cao County for development.
This is obviously a Hakka elephant returning to his hometown in Henan Province!
If you want to go to the provincial city, mix up the establishment.
It's all a joke, of course.
Now experts analyze, there are several possibilities.
First, they wander around the habitat, and as a result, the leader of the wild elephants may be inexperienced and lost, unable to find a way home.
Second, the leader wanted to lead the elephant herd to open up a new territory, and randomly chose a direction to go out, but the result was bad luck, and the more he walked, the more he went, the more he did not eat.
Third, changes in the Earth's magnetic field activate the migratory instinct in elephant genes, which may be related to solar activity.
Fourth, and most likely, is that their habitat is undernourished and they have to leave their homes in search of a new home in order to survive.
In fact, over the years, China has been doing a good job in protecting wild Asian elephants.
Without human hunting, and without predators, the number slowly increased.
On the other hand, humans have grown too many cash crops and constantly expanded their living territory, occupying the space of the rainforest.
There are more elephants and fewer lands, and they have to find ways to expand the scope of their existence.
So these 15 wild elephants may be looking for a new home while foraging for food.
But the direction was wrong, and I couldn't find a new home, so I kept walking all the way to Kunming.
Of course, this is just speculation.
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In any case, the best way for the target group is to return to the previous habitat.
That's where they're best suited to survive.
Many netizens are very distressed about this group of elephants who are stupidly walking north.
Since we still have to go home in the end, can we help them?
Don't let them wade back in the mountains and rivers anymore, can't you find a way to transport them back?
Hard.
There is indeed precedent for transporting wild elephants to their habitats under anesthesia.
However, this time the situation is a little special.
This time there were too many elephants, including baby elephants.
If one elephant is put down, other elephants may be provoked and attack the crowd, which is very dangerous.
And in terms of weight, if the anesthesia time is too long, the elephant is very prone to casualties.
The best solutions at the moment are:
Alternatively, through a safe pulsed electric fence, properly correct the direction of travel of the elephant herd.
Or, take food guidance and induce them to move towards Xishuangbanna and slowly go home.
Both methods are very simple to say, but in practice, it is very difficult to "persuade us to return", and it is really difficult to say whether the elephant herd can cooperate with us to go back.
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Where the elephants are going, there is no answer.
We may never know why they travel so far.
It's like a human city they'll never understand reinforced concrete.
But this group of cute and terrible wild elephants, with their funny and bitter experiences, once again gave mankind a wake-up call:
Nature is the nature of all living things.
We are not the masters of the world, nor are we qualified to occupy the homes of others.
In the past, there may be some things that we did not do well, but in the future, we must remember to protect nature, protect the ecology, and live in harmony with other creatures.
At least not because of our arrogance and subordination, we will not destroy other people's homes.
Otherwise, we may not be able to afford it in the end.
Light up [Like] + [Watching], I hope that the elephant and we, all live well.
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Lee Moon. Popular writer, neo-feminist, and solid writer. Grow up with reason and wisdom with thousands of women.