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"BATALIK" the tusker, had the attention of subjects in my previous post.

“Batalik is a fourteen year old elephant, who was born on the day the Kargil war was won in the year 1999, and hence was given his name. Curiously, Batalik inherited all the fighter qualities that his name would suggest, often not listening to his mahavat and being a typically rebellious male elephant. Only problem was that at fourteen years of age, he is already nine feet at shoulder height, making him a difficult and mischievous baby elephant to deal with. So when he parked himself next to Pakhri, he promptly grabbed Sushil's kit bag, which contained all his patrolling equipment comprising the GPS handset, a pair of binoculars and the digital camera, and stamped on it,”

The story of the mischievous antics of a young elephant from Dudhwa National Park, Uttar Pradesh

(Posted on 08 July 2014)

www.wwfindia.org/?11541/Trampled-to-pieces

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