Jumbo kills Jumbo over LadyLove

Raipur: A tragic love story played out in the jungles of Chhattisgarh when two male jumbos clashed for several hours over a female elephant, eventually killing one of them, a forest official said Tuesday.

'Two male wild jumbos fought a fatal war in Gharghora forest circle of Raigarh district for several hours Monday to have a love-play with a female jumbo in which a 15-year-old jumbo was killed,' R.K. Sisodia, a divisional forest officer, told IANS. Read More................Love turns fatal as jumbos clash over female

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Elephantine Brake

Need to halt an unruly elephant. Apply the 'Brake'.

That's what a smalltown innovator from Thrissur District in Kerala state of India has come out with: a metallic 'brake' to halt unruly elephants, which the mahout can apply sitting atop the jumbo to stop the animal from running amok.

Bhaskaran, who designed the elephantine brake, claims that the device could rein in even the mightiest of tuskers. Read more.......................................A jumbo 'brake'

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Elephants run berserk & people desert homes

About 800 tribal people of a remote area of Koriya district in Chhattisgarh have temporarily deserted their village as a herd of elephants has destroyed their houses and crops, forest officials said Wednesday.

'A herd of wild elephants, which strayed into the region a week ago has been causing panic among the people, mainly in Salwa village, and they ran amok, destroying crops and a number of houses,' as per one local forest official. Read more......................Chhattisgarh villagers desert homes as jumbos run amok

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