tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19649274.post116032452154294423..comments2024-03-27T17:16:12.789+05:30Comments on The Leap Blog: Why are elephants attacking people?Ajay Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835842741008200034noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19649274.post-1162710901649664262006-11-05T12:45:00.000+05:302006-11-05T12:45:00.000+05:30I am not an expert on this, but the two key pieces...I am not an expert on this, but the two key pieces of the story are (a) the very very long time-horizons involved in the natural processes of herds and (b) traditional migratory routes.<BR/><BR/>Even if a few killings take place per decade, it is big enough to disrupt the social dynamics of the herd. In addition, India has done terrible things in terms of messing up the traditional migratory routes of the elephants. It could add up to a big disruption.<BR/><BR/>I am not an expert on this. I am just intruiged: why are the elephants so violent today? I am pretty confident they were not like this ~ 100 years ago. Nothing much has changed in the elephant genome in a 100 years - so it must be something about their social dynamics.Ajay Shahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03835842741008200034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19649274.post-1160592196080251272006-10-12T00:13:00.000+05:302006-10-12T00:13:00.000+05:30Is there anything that indicates the Indian elepha...Is there anything that indicates the Indian elephant parents are killed or taken away from their children to turn uncared for infants into current killers? For some reason, I think it is more to do with human encroachment on their habitat (one don’t hear about elephant poachers that much). Pack people in cities and town and give the wonderful tropical animals more space to go about their business – exactly the opposite of the politicians are trying to do now.Chandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04763671243428875888noreply@blogger.com