In a shocking incident, miscreants attacked an elephant and severed its tail in Sakrebyle Elephant Camp in Shivamogga district, sources said on Friday. A hunt for the accused has been launched.

The ivory hunters killed the elephant and took animals tusks, cutting them and the trunk off with chainsaws Poaching in Botswana increasing, with estimated 593 per cent rise in number of carcasses ...

Dr Jayasinghe said the elephant’s tusk was cut off with an axe while it was unconscious. “Elephants’ modified incisor teeth are tusks. Cutting one off will be painful, as these tusks have deep nerve ...

Forest officials who reached the spot on Thursday after the residents informed them on Wednesday night that they spotted an elephant in the area found its truck cut by almost a feet.

Workers at an elephant shelter have cut back the tusks of an elephant that killed a Thai woman in the former capital of Ayutthaya, in the hope of wiping away bad luck from the animal.