[Assam] India's Elephantine Problem - Ami Vitale (Natl. Geographic)

[Ram Sarangapani]

 You are correct Bhuban da. And certain breeds of dogs seem more dangerous -
like pit bulls,
rottweillers, presa canarios, and sometimes even the 'lovable' dalmations.

As far as elephants and lao pani, it would seem they would need to drink a
whole lot of it to get intoxicated, and drunk elephant maybe a bigger
problem than the sober one :)

--Ram


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> On 9/7/07, bbaruah at aol.com <bbaruah at aol.com> wrote:
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> > The article is still topical as the man-elephant conflict is not likely
> > to disappear in the near future. It is not however a man-elephant conflict
> > really as such dangers are inherent in situations where an animal's life is
> > integrated with human society, as in the case bewteen  a man and his dog.
> > Dogs regularly kill humans. A grandmother is just now in the dock for
> > letting her grandchild mauled to death by a pet rottweiller.
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> > I read somwhere that elephants do get intoxicated after drinking
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> > I liked the shots too.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com>
> > To: ASSAMNET < assam at assamnet.org>
> > Sent: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 5.44am
> > Subject: [Assam] India's Elephantine Problem - Ami Vitale (Natl.
> > Geographic)
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> >  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0408/photo_index.html
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> > Some of you may find this not only interesting, but also give some
> > thought to the continuous man-elephant conflict in Assam. This conflict is
> > becoming more intense as the population is growing rapidly, and forest lands
> > are either being depleted or encroached. The article is a bit old, but still
> > appropriate.
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> > There are also some great photographs. One particularly caught my
> > attention (a bit of levity, if you will,  in an otherwise serious
> > situation) - we had always heard that elephants love moonshine (Lao-pani),
> > but didn't quite realize that this is more than just a story.  Do they
> > really get drunk? That would require a whole lot of the stuff, I presume:)
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> > --Ram
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