Indian Elephant Quiz — Test Your Knowledge
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India inaugurated the Delhi–Dehradun Expressway today. A joint NHAI–WII study shows 18 wild species — including elephants — are already using its underpasses. The real test begins now.
Karnataka has lost 15 tigers, 13 leopards, and 19 people to human-wildlife conflict in six months. The state’s answer is to sterilise wild animals. The science — and the logic of what is actually driving conflict — says this is the wrong answer entirely.
Between October 2025 and April 2026, Karnataka lost 15 tigers, 13 leopards, 8 elephants, and 19 people to the widening fault line between humans and wildlife. Now the state is proposing to sterilise wild animals — and the science says that’s not the answer.
Elephants are imprinted in my earliest memory as the first animal I ever truly saw. That great pachyderm […]
Elephant corridors have been squeezed and their paths cut-off
The trained elephants will assist in patrol operations in and around Corbett Tiger Reserve
A failure to conduct a thorough probe of different strains of Herpes virus in elephants may rob Kerala’s forests of all baby elephants, warns a state forest department veterinarian.
The herpes virus that killed 26 elephants over the past 10 years, mostly young ones, both in the wild and captive, had different strains depending on the region they were in like Munnar, Wayanad and Nilambur, the Times of India reports.
In a paper titled `Impact of diseases in wildlife conservation’ at the sixth international conference on NextGen Genomics, Biology , Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT) in Kochi, veterinarian Arun Zachariah said that this information came when a full DNA sequencing of the virus found in the elephants was done and analysed. “We are now doing a detailed analysis of the genetic profile of the virus,” he added.
He said the animals died within 48 hours of contracting the virus. “We spent several days monitoring the animals in the wild and realized that the virus was oozing out in the trunk leaks of adult elephants which infected the young ones in the herd. We are trying to understand the relation between the three parameters, pathogen (virus), host (elephants) and environment (climate), and what is the causative trigger,” he said.
A lone elephant that suffered injuries after falling into a ditch at Ramohalli village near the Indian city […]
Wildlife SOS, an NGO, has given a new home to an elephant that was found starving and rescued from its owners who made the noble animal seek alms on the streets of Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh.
The elephant named `Mohan,’ who was rescued by authorities in July, has been brought to Wildlife SOS’ facility in Mathura, where he’s expected to live out the rest of his years.