Elephants' 500km-trek across China baffles scientists

Elephants are by nature fiercely intelligent beasts and experts who study them day in day out already know a great deal about them.

It's not unusual for elephants to move small distances. But this herd has been lumbering its way across China for more than a year now. The elephants have now strayed almost 500km , a mammoth trek from their original habitat. They began moving north and in the last few months, the elephants have popped up in a number of villages, towns and cities.

They've also been spotted hoovering up crops in their wake and moseying into people's houses - on one occasion, lining up in a courtyard to drink water, successfully turning on a tap with their trunks.

It’s posible they’re walking to find safety and haven’t found it

That reminds me, my wife’s two sisters are travelling down from Scotland this weekend to stay with us😔

It may be that the epidemic in India is too serious, and they want to go north to avoid the attack of the virus.

Nothing to be surprised, it's the ethics of the scientists to be baffled.

Another long march, p'haps?

Amazing

I wouldn’t put it past due to an act of humans again. They are far more intelligent and use it wisely.

It's about time that we had some coverage on them.

Escaping before the mass floods when the damns finally fail completely

Animal’s are smart, especially elephants. They might sense something is coming. Earthquake etc.

This is an amazing story! Hope they make a documentary about it

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Travelling through China I’m surprised they didn’t get eaten.

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