Microchips to identify elephants in Corbett

Times of India
21 Jan 2009

JIM CORBETT NATIONAL PARK: Elephants in Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand have been installed with microchips, which will act as their identification proof.

Installed with the help of a syringe, these chips will help the authorities identify the elephants from among the wild ones.

The chips would provide a unique identification number to the elephants, which would enable the wildlife authorities at the park, to keep a track on these elephants through the means of a digital reader.

The chips would also ensure that the owner of the elephants, which are used to ferry visitors around the park, do not exchange their old and ailing jumbos with another elephant.

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