Elephants turn into 'murderers' when migrated

Biologists have shown that moving a bunch of forest elephants from a location they are familiar with to a new location even in the same national forest makes them change their traits, become aggressive, vandalism aimed at the human being.

The study was conducted by US scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and published in the journal PLOS ONE.

It was found that clashes between humans and forest elephants could be avoided by letting them live in their 'traditional' areas, interspersed with the population and having special conservation measures. Wanting to protect them but not knowing this, the protection will lead to consequences contrary to their wishes.

Lost the traditional habitat makes elephants become
aggressive and conflict with people. (Illustration)

Scientists have compared the fate of a herd of 12 elephants displaced in the national park in Sri Lanka with another herd of 12 children living where they were born. Their activities are monitored by GPS satellites.

As a result, the elephants who were moved to their residence before and after also changed their character and conflict with people.

Of the 12 elephants displaced, two were killed in the national park, five were killed after 260 days of being transferred. Some find their way back to the 'homeland' , and the rest of them wandered around the edge of the forest edge, destroying crops, fields and houses of the local population, not including the pursuit. to kill them.

Even during the time when biologists were studying, there were 5 elephants in the area where the elephants went to disruptive residential areas, killing 5 people. Meanwhile, the other 12-pack elephants did not touch them, leaving them to live freely in the old, resident forests. The number of people killed by elephants was only one.

This proves that in order to protect elephants, let them live in a familiar environment, take measures to prevent poachers and do not need to isolate them from the population.