Five Lions electrocuted in India

In a shocking instance, five Asiatic lions were electrocuted in Amreli district within the Gir forest range in Gujarat state of India.

Dead bodies of five lions in a field in the village has made forest department in state sit up. Preliminary examination has revealed that they were electrocuted accidentally. The village is near the Gir sanctuary the only abode of Asiatic lions in the world.

The incident took place when the lions tried to enter into a farm, which had electrified fencing. It happened about a week back. this came to the notice of the forest department when it launched search for five lions which were missing. The department tracks movement of all lions in the Gir forest, Chief conservator of Gir forest Bharat Pathak said.

Forest department found badly decomposed bodies of three lioness and two lions. On inquiry the farmer said that he had buried the dead lions to avoid any problem. the farmer Durlabhji Vadodoria and four others have been arrested in this case.

Inspection of the bodies confirms the accidental death, as the bodies are intact. There is no indication of any kind of poaching. Forest department sources say electrified fencing was a very common phenomenon in the region as wild animals like blue bull are a great threat to the farmers.

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Monkey stalls operations at Airport

It was monkey business at New Delhi's international airport & wildlife officials were struggling to catch a monkey which sneaked inside the security area of the airport. Monkey stalled operations at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport for a few hours, delaying passengers and senior officials, media reports and officials said Monday.

The trouble began after the simian was spotted by passengers at the airport's security hold area on Sunday evening, the Economic Times reported quoting official sources.

Soon after, authorities closed two gates, generally used for movement of important people or VIPs and summoned a team from an NGO called Wildlife SOS to catch the unusual visitor.

The report said the monkey had triggered panic amongst passengers and the entry through the gates was denied to VIPs, officials and passengers for a couple of hours.

'The monkey had apparently been frequenting the airport for a few weeks now and has been found staying between the false and actual ceilings. But we have not been able to capture him since there is a huge tangle of wires there,' Karthik Satyanarayan from the Wildlife SOS told the paper.

Baiju Raj, another official at the Wildlife SOS said the operations were restored after a few hours but the monkey was still not captured as the NGO was awaiting permission from the authorities.

It was not the first time that passengers at the New Delhi airport were troubled by unwelcome intruders.

In March, a rat had delayed an international flight by more than three hours. In November last year, a rabid dog entered the airport and bit four people before it was captured in a three-hour chase.

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Town invaded by 120 Elephants

Just think what shall happen if in your town 120 elephants suddenly invade & create chaos. As per a report , It actually happened in Hojai, a town 105 miles south-east of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state. When elephants roamed the streets of the town wildlife officials & police tried to disperse them by firing in the air, by bursting firecrackers and beating the drums. Thousands of residents of Hojai have to run for their lives. In all this running two persons were injured. In all that chaos followed, elephants damaged several bamboo houses while retreating. Hojai has a population of around 100 000.

In Assam State of India, it has the largest Asiatic elephant population, which is estimated at 5,300, according to a recently released wildlife census. Earlier also reports of several incidents of elephants going berserk had happened, who generally look for rice beer in the area & fields. As per the official figures, Elephants have killed 239 people in Assam in the past five years, while 265 elephants have died during the same period, mainly these have been poisoned by angry humans, who were attacked by the beast.

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