August 1
Bengal - An elephant was electrocuted Wednesday in a north Bengal tea garden after it touched a live wire with its trunk.

A herd of 15 to 20 elephants wandered into the tea garden at Jalpaiguri's Malbazar, about 370 miles from Kolkata, looking for food, when one that strayed from the herd felt a live wire with its trunk and died instantly.

About a week ago, an elephant's body was found in the same forest after it had been killed by poachers.

Three days later, a 4-year-old elephant calf was knocked down by a train in the Gulma Forest Range. In the last two years, eleven elephants have been killed by trains in north Bengal.

Elephants usually take the forest corridor from Mechi in Nepal to Sankosh in Assam, but on the way they often stray into villages and tea gardens in search of food.
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Sad ..... just a bit too curious.

I agree, it’s sad... nature and technology don’t interface very well... IMO

An electric fence is sometimes the only way to keep determined animals in or out of an area. Elephants are very determined animals and to keep their crops or homes safe electric fences are used since usually all it does is give the animal a mild zap to let them know the area is out of bounds. Cattle in the US are also sometimes penned this way. Sounds to me like the owner of the property didn't have it installed properly or intentionally had it cranked up.

That is so sad considering that elephants are becoming rare.


Mabon.

Poor elephant. It didn't deserve to die that way.

And that other elephant killed by poachers.

Elephants are one of my favourite animals, this is extremely sad. They are so intelligent and curious, how tragic that it was electrocuted.

They are wonderful creatures and fascinating to say the least, it is heartbreaking that they are becoming so rare. I just wish the poachers would realize this, unfortunately, once again, it all comes down to money

Poor elephant.

this is a very odd way for a elephant to die