Interesting....stuff are the owners held for elephant damages?
I actually don’t know. It’s not that common here. “Domesticated” elephants are generally either used in temples as processional animals, or out in remote logging camps where they never come into contact with anyone. The vast majority of elephant damage comes from wild elephant herds that wander into human-settled areas. Last month, a herd of 200 animals occupied the cricket stadium in a neighboring city. They didn’t leave for a week, and driving off a herd that big of 12-ton animals isn’t exactly like scaring a flock of starlings. I gather that the grass was quite a bit greener once they left, though.