Man Eating Elephant

[Tokoloshe Safaris]

Knowing elephant and having grown up on Corbett. I thought I had a bit of knowledge of India and elephant.

Early this morning I had you tube on and heard a very interesting.
The title name was The Mad elephant Mandala or something close to that.

The elephant had escaped his handler took to the forest and proceeded to destroy villages, kill around 50 people many of which he ate. In one case snatching a baby from a womans arms and popping it in its mouth.

I was half awake when I was listening to this so may have some mistakes of what I heard. The year was about 1871.

I hope to pull it up again, but maybe somebody can share their knowledge.

Lon

 

[AfricaHunting.com]

The title name was The Mad elephant Mandala or something close to that.

 

[Tokoloshe Safaris]

Any Validity?

Lon

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Impossible. An elephant’s dental structure doesn’t permit the chewing of flesh. It can’t digest flesh for that matter either.

When I was the DFO (Divisional Forest Officer) in charge of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, we encountered a report a wild Asiatic jungle elephant bull which had “Eaten” 11 people. We quickly found out that the elephant had gored people with it’s tusks and trampled/crushed them to death. But there was no actual evidence of the elephant eating people.