Wild animals, including elephants, often stray into human settlements for a number of reasons including in the quest for food and water, especially in the summers when the water sources in the forests dry up.
But more often than not they get chased away bursting crackers and with fire torches.
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These animals also get injured and sometimes killed after they fall into ditches and wells inside plantations the night.
A herd of five elephants had a lucky escape after they fell into a pond in a coffee plantation in Kodagu, Karnataka.Click Here: habitat tord boontje