Reclaiming Their Land: Elephant Breaks Road Divider For Herd To Cross Busy National Highway
Elephants are known to defy obstructions and make their way out one way or the other. A video that surfaced shows a female elephant leading a pack through a familiar route. In another incident an intelligent elephant was seen tossing sticks on a fence.
Elephants are fascinating creatures. They grieve over the bodies of dead herd members, can even recognize their own reflections in a mirror and of course, have an impeccable memory.
In the wild, an elephant¡¯s memory is key to its survival¡ªand its herd¡¯s. And each herd has one older female in charge. More recently, a video that surfaced shows a female elephant leading a pack through a familiar route.
Urbanization has led to humans to encroaching on land that belonged to animals. Sometimes when those animals come back looking for their original habitat, they find newly constructed structures.
But elephants are known to defy these obstructions and make their way out, one way or the other.
While crossing a busy highway in Coimbatore, this stubborn female elephant literally broke down a newly constructed divider along the road, to make way for five other elephant members.
Leadership is about responsibilities.
¡ª Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) December 3, 2019
A female #elephant clears the way for other five #elephant family members to cross busy Coimabtore to Mettupalayam national Highway. Elephants never forget their routes. Forwarded by friend. pic.twitter.com/bUazhc4aCj
The female elephant took it upon herself to break a Coimbatore highway divider that was hampering the familiar route.
Traffic came to a halt on the Coimbatore-Mettupalayam highway while the matriarch and her herd crossed the road, and commuters stopped to film the amusing incident.
In another incident, an intelligent elephant was seen tossing sticks on a fence to see if it was electrically charged.
Elephants will go where they want. Solar electric fencing maintained at 5kv was designed to deter them. It¡¯s intelligence makes them cleaver to breach that barrier. Interesting. pic.twitter.com/vbgcGTZfij
¡ª Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) November 4, 2019
The elephant wanted to cross over to the other side of the jungle but couldn't, since a "solar electric fence maintained at 5kv was designed to deter" animals from doing so. So, it resorted to testing the fence first. When nothing happened, the gentle giant easily pulled down the pillar with its trunk and made its way out.
Can we and should we really be mad at animals for reclaiming what's probably theirs in the first place? This, considering we have left so many of them with nothing - not even their homes.
