Elephant- Nature’s great masterpiece; The only harmless great thing- John Donne Argument Setting We are in the middle of the Wildlife Week Celebrations 2022, the theme of which for the current year is ‘Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration’. 4th October is incidentally World Animal Day as well. I felt it appropriate to pen down my thoughts on one of the critical issues- calf orphaning and reunion in wild- relating to the Asian Elephant, a charismatic endangered species in India. I came across a news report with the above title in an English newspaper recently about an abandoned elephant calf, barely few months old in a North Eastern state of India. Even as the well being of the orphan bothered me, I was wondering as to why and how the calf elephant got separated from its mother. Elephant herds usually live as family groups with strong social relation. As like most other animals, mother...
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