Thursday, April 26, 2007

India elephants

India elephants prefer crops to forest fodder (Reuters)

In this file picture, a wild elephant walks inside the Atal tea garden estate, about 25 km (16 miles) from the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri, October 23, 2006. A government study in India has shown elephants prefer food crops to forest fodder and often travel hundreds of miles to the same farmland every year, even remembering specific months of harvesting. REUTERS/Rupak De ChowdhuriReuters - A government study in India has shown elephants prefer food crops to forest fodder and often travel hundreds of miles to the same farmland every year, even remembering specific months of harvesting.


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