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veggie

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Drunken elephants go beserk in India
#7553115 - 10/23/07 10:25 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Beserk drunk elephants get zapped October 23, 2007 - CNN
GAUHATI, India (AP) -- Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India's remote northeast, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
Nearly 40 elephants came to a village on Friday looking for food. Some found beer, which farmers ferment and keep in plastic and tin drums in their huts, said Sunil Kumar, a state wildlife official.
They got drunk, uprooted a utility pole carrying power lines and were electrocuted in Chandan Nukat, a village nearly 150 miles west of Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya state, Kumar said.
"There would have been more casualties had the villagers not chased them away," said Dipu Mark, a local conservationist.
The elephants are known to have a taste for rice beer brewed by tribal communities in India's northeast. Four wild elephants died in similar circumstances in the region three years ago.
India's northeast accounts for the world's largest concentration of wild Asiatic elephants with the states of Assam and Meghalaya alone estimated to have 7,000 of them.
"It's great to have such a huge number of elephants, but the increasing man-elephant conflict following the shrinkage in their habitat due to the growing human population is giving us nightmares," said Pradyut Bordoloi, former Assam Forest and Environment Minister.
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Divided_Sky
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Re: Drunken elephants go beserk in India [Re: veggie]
#7553340 - 10/23/07 11:54 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Man seriously, think about how the elephants were feeling. Humanity is destroying their habbitat and encroaching on them, the whole world is changing so they have to look for food outside the jungle. Then they got drunk and freaked out about the whole thing and were killed by their own angst and rage.
It is a bad sign when even elephants are getting drunk and acting like soccer fans.
-------------------- 1. "After an hour I wasn't feeling anything so I decided to take another..." 2. "We were feeling pretty good so we decided to smoke a few bowls..." 3. "I had to be real quiet because my parents were asleep upstairs..."
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gmuralid
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Re: Drunken elephants go beserk in India [Re: Divided_Sky]
#7553975 - 10/24/07 07:55 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thats India for you. Anyone wanna come? You can stay at my place.
I love this country. Oooh Oooh I have a friend who has an elephant and Im going to convince him to give me some E.poo, so I can grow some giants!!!!!
-------------------- Wilderness. It defines me.
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