Elephants worry villagers
NZPA-Reuter Jakarta Sumatran village officials have asked the Government to provide tranquilliser guns to use on rogue herds of hungry, rampaging elephants. Officials said south Sumatran villages had been plagued by elephants which descended on them after dark devouring rice, bananas, corn and coconuts and smashing anything in their way. The herds have escaped from reservations where they were driven last year and appear to have developed a new-found taste for rice.
Tranquilliser guns were vital to subdue the elephants because tamers brought from Thailand had failed to pacify the beasts, officials said.
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Press, 13 November 1985, Page 37
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