In a shocking incident which took place in the Garo hills of Meghalaya, a man was killed and devoured by a wild elephant. As per the report a man who came in the way of the herd was killed and devoured by the elephant.
The incident had taken place nearly a month ago and the same was confirmed by the Principal ChiefConservator of forests of Meghalaya, VK Nautiyal, who had been to Delhi for a conference of top forest officials in the country. He said that it was not normal for an elephant to eat a man. And had added that it was unlikely that the animal would develop a taste for blood or turn into a carnivore.
Elephants are strictly herbivores and usually eat grass. There have been many incidents where-in conflicts between human and elephants have taken place in which elephants have known to rampage, trample or batter humans to death. There have also been many incidents where elephants have entered farms and destroy huts and crops but there has never been an recorded incident of an elephant eating a human being.
This is surely an incident which defies nature.
Posted by Learn to draw on June 7, 2008 at 4:28 am
Wow. That is shocking. I have heard of plenty of cases of elephants going on a rampage and killing someone, usually an escaped circus elephant, but eating someone. I’ve never heard of that before.
Posted by Jaideepsinh on June 10, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Same here, Sir.
Posted by Berbatov on July 30, 2008 at 2:24 pm
My mate Steed has a trunk you should see, looks a bit wonky but hey-ho.