Thanks to climate change, urbanisation and deforestation, wild animals have been left displaced and searching for new homes. This desperate search often brings them in direct contact with humans, whether it's in a city, village or hamlet. Experts have said that wild animals usually avoid any and all contact with humans, but when forced into a corner, cases of human-animal conflict emerge.
Recently, a wild buffalo was spotted on a road in?Kerala, ramming into an auto.?In a video, which has now gone viral, the?bull?can be seen attacking an auto-rickshaw with its horns.?
Right after, the buffalo, as if disoriented, rushes towards a bush before turning around, completing a full spin and reclaiming his spot. The animal then stands and faces the auto-rickshaw again and possibly taking the stationary vehicle's lack of response as a sign, retraces his steps and heads back towards the thicket.?
It's unclear at this point if the driver or the passengers, if any, were hurt during the incident.
This footage was uploaded by an Instagram page called exploretamizhnadu.?
The video has already garnered over 2,00,000 views. It left the people on the internet stunned. Many showed their amusement by commenting on the video.?One user wrote, "i didn't know that it had this much power." Another user wrote, "Hope the auto rickshaw person is safe." A third user wrote, "Thank God, no much damage." A user also wrote, "Don't travel at night. Allow them their right."
Earlier in August, an undated video surfaced online showing a rhino running through a town full of people. It was posted online by IFS officer Susanta Nanda. "When the human settlement strays into a rhino habitat… Don’t confuse with Rhino straying into a town," read the caption of the post.
In the clip, the animal was seen running down the street. However, there were no reports of anyone being injured. The location of this incident was not shared in the video.?
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