India's wild elephants retrained vs similar wild attacks

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 13, 2021 12:25 am

THEPPAKADU, India: Moorthy killed 21 people and terrorized entire villages in southern India for years before he was captured and retrained to repel similar attacks by other wild elephants starved due to deforestation.

The 58-year-old gray beast, recognizable from the bright pink spots that pockmark his face, was already spared a death sentence after trampling nearly a dozen people in the southern state of Kerala.

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