The mysterious march of 15 elephants that terrifies China

The elephants of a wandering herd drove on cobblestone roads and stuck their trunks through windows as they approached a town in southwest China, and authorities rushed to protect both animals and people.

The reason why 15 elephants they’re doing the long haul, which has been documented and monitored by land and air with a dozen drones, it’s unclear.

Authorities have asked residents of areas through which they have passed to stay at home and they block roads with building materials as they seek to entice animals with food.

The herd has already traveled 500 kilometers of a nature reserve in the mountains of the southwest of the province. In footage which shows them wandering at night through crop fields, villages and cobbled streets in urban areas they look healthy.

Nobody knows where they are going

A town on its route, Yuxi, has deployed hundreds of trucks along a highway to discourage them from approaching, he reported. Beijing News. Drivers ate and slept inside their vehicles for days, even when they heard how they were getting around after dark, the newspaper said in a video posted online.

On Tuesday they approached a nursing home and looked around glue its tubes inside certain rooms, who prompted one of the residents to hide under the bed, his colleagues said in an interview with the online channel Jimu News.

The elephants reached the Jinning district on Wednesday evening, at the gates of Kunming city, the capital of Yunnan province and where seven million people livethe official Chinese news agency reported on Thursday, Xinhua.

The district government issued a notice urging residents not to leave corn or other foods that may attract them to their garden and to avoid contact.

It was “forbidden to go around and admire the elephants” or to disturb them with firecrackers or other devices, adds the opinion.

Two came back and a baby was born on the fly

The group was originally made up of 16 animals but, according to the government, two returned to the reserve and a calf was born on the way. The herd is made up of six females and three adult males, three young and three young, according to official data.

No injuries were reported, but there were reports that the elephants caused damage or destruction to valuable crops. over a million dollars.

For the time being it is not known how and when they will return to the reserve.

Elephants are the largest land animals in Asia and can weigh up to five tons.

AP Agency.

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