Elephant Herd Tramples Poacher To Death In India

Last night, a gang of four poachers entered Thattekkad bird sanctuary in Kerala but they ended up getting trampled by elephants, with one dying and another in a critical condition, according to The Indian Express. The likeliest thing they were looking for was ivory.

A 26-year-old man only known as Tony was trampled to death by a herd of elephants and his friend, a 30-year-old named Basil is in critical care.

It's thought that the group were caught in a herd of elephants and couldn't escape.

Tony also reportedly accidentally set off his rifle and shot himself in the leg in the ruckus.

The two surviving gang members, Sajith and Anish, ran off with their weapons and no one even knew they were involved until they accidentally told their friends and families. Well, it is a good story, but you'll probably go to jail now.

Elephants are usually very peaceful creatures, and since the poachers entered the sanctuary at night, were probably sleeping rather than running round trampling everything in their wake, which some have suggested could mean that they did it on purpose.

According to a study done by researchers at The University of Sussex in Brighton, elephants are so smart that they can identify languages. They could tell the difference between two different tribes, one who had a history of poaching and one who didn't.

A recent study stated that elephants are killed faster than they are born, while 100 die every day from poachers alone.

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