A hungry wild elephant precipitated havoc in a grocery retailer in Thailand on Monday when he strolled in from a close-by nationwide park and helped himself to some meals off the shelf.
One volunteer park employee instructed the Associated Press wild elephants within the Khao Yai National Park space have been popping out of the woods to ransack folks’s kitchens for a few years, however this yr he has began seeing them going into extra random locations to search out meals.
There had been an estimated 4,000 wild elephants in Thailand in 2024, in response to the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation. As farmers push into forests for agriculture, elephants have been pressured to enterprise out of their shrinking habitats searching for meals, resulting in confrontations that may typically flip lethal.
