The calf of an Indian Elephant, best-known subspecies of the Asian Elephant, Elephas maximus, pulling grass with its trunk to eat, while walking down a grassy slope. Although photographed in Kanha National Park, wild elephants were not found in the reserve when I visited in 2015, and this is the calf of two of the Park’s working elephants.
However, in 2018, a group of elephants moved into Madya Pradesh, where Kanha NP is situated, from the neighbouring State of Chhattisgarh because of deforestation and some have taken refuge in and around Kanha NP and two other Madya Pradesh reserves, Sanjay NP and Bandhavgarh NP. These elephants are not all inside the reserves and there has been some human-elephant conflict in the surrounding villages.
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