Nobody told us how serious that was.
According to Newsweek, police in India said a 17-year-old woman was walking to collect water when a wild elephant attacked and killed a 70 year old woman. The elephant trampled the corpse before returning to her funeral and grabbing her body from the pyre.
According to Duncan McNair, a lawyer and founder of Save The Asian Elephants, elephants are very smart and can be very dangerous.
The elephants can be dangerous when provoked or abused.
The entire case was so weird that it went online. It's true that elephants are known to hold grudges, hold funerals, and exhibit other characteristics that prove how deep their memories and emotions are.
Adding to the drama, TikTok sleuths claimed that the woman was a criminal and that the elephant was on a revenge mission.
TikTok sleuths aren't really professionals. Even if the incident is true, chalking it up to a comic-book storyline ignores the fact that elephant-human conflic t comes from territory loss.
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