elephant calf refuses to leave mother who died trying to save him

It is a sight that highlights the increasing man-animal conflict in india. an elephant calf in assam mourned the death of his mother and refused to leave her side. on wednesday morning, the calf had run out of an elephant herd towards a construction site for the rs. 1,300-crore patanjali mega herbal and food park in assam's sonitpur district and was followed by his mother and another elephant calf.

The mother elephant, who suffered injuries after faling in the pit, died 19 hours later on thursday. while one calf was able to come out of the pit, the other stayed with the mother's body, and had to be rescued by locals.The assam forest department has filed a police complaint against the builder of patanjali mega herbal and food park for negligense in providing safety to wild elephants and digging pits at the construction site.

 There were more than 14 open pits and some of them were filed up with ground after forest minister pramila rani brahma visited the site after the death of the elephant, jasim ahmed, additional conservator of forest, west sonitpur forest division, said. the forest minister instructed the builder to keep half of the over-200-acre land free from construction through which the elephants could move.

The foundation stone of the patanjali mega herbal and food park was laid on november 6 by assam chief minister sarbananda sonowal in the presense of patanjali founder and yoga guru ramdev, union minister of state for heavy industries babul supriyo and state industries minister chandramohan patowary among others.

Dilip nath, member of aranya surakha samittee, sonitpur, told press trust of india that the place was known to be an elephant zone often frequented by them from the nearby forest. Meanwhile, state congress spokesman apurba bhattacharya claimed that as the area was an elephant corridor and used by the animals for giving birth to their calves and that the previous congress administration in the state had not allowed the government land to be given to anyone.

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Heartbroken elephant calf in India refuses to leave mother’s body

A baby elephant in India’s northeastern Assam state on Friday mourned the death of his mother and refused to leave her body.

According to local media reports, the mother elephant lost her life after it fell into a pit at the site of Patanjali Mega Herbal and Food Park at Ghoramari region of Sonitpur district, in the northeast of India near Bangladesh.

Assam Forest officer Pramila Rani Brahmin said the department will lodge a case against the contractor for not taking necessary precautions at the construction site.

She further said a probe will be initiated against the people, who ordered the digging of the deep pit.

Several hours after its death, forest officials took out the elephant’s body from the pit with the help of a crane.

Later, they removed her tusk and buried her remains.

Increasing human population has depleted the habitat of wild animals, forcing them to stray into human settlements, attacking people and often being killed in return.


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Mother elephant protects body of baby elephant

A bond between a mother and her child is the most precious relation of all. The love a mother has for her child is unconditional and it's the same for both human beings and animals.

A similar incident was witnessed in Sunsal village of Odisha where a mother elephant was seen protecting the body of her dead son.

A herd of elephant from Similipal Tiger Reserve also came and gathered around the dead body of the jumbo elephant lying in Sunsal village under dukura range.

After seeing this unusual scenario, the villagers were surprised and called the rescue team of forest department.

But the parade of elephant didn't let them come near the lying body.

All elephants left the place after staying there for a night, but the mother was still there with his son.

Doctors have collected the blood samples of the jumbo elephant to for probe the reason behind the death of the baby elephant was about 4 to 5 years old.

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