In the past month, the elephant herd has passed through several counties and cities one after another, making people suspect that they will soon appear in the urban area of Kunming.
But at this moment, the elephant group suddenly turned to the southwest, and then stopped leaving, staying in Shijie Township, Yimen County, Yuxi City, where they stayed for nearly a week.
The single elephant is out of the group for 9 days and the straight line distance from the elephant group is about 18 kilometers
Currently, the elephant group continues to move around in a small area in Shijie Township, Yimen County, Yuxi City.
The lone elephant has been out of the group for 9 days. It is located in the dense forest near Longshan, Jinning District, Kunming, and the linear distance from the elephant group is about 18 kilometers.
On the 13th, the on-site headquarters put in a total of 319 emergency response personnel and police forces, and evacuated 3548 people. In order to supplement the food supply of Asian elephants, they fed 1 ton of elephant food.
On the evening of June 8, the elephant group entered the boundary of Shijie Township, Yimen County, Yuxi City from Xiyang Township, Jinning District, Kunming City, and its progress slowed down significantly.
In the case of a male elephant out of the group, the elephant group walked 3.7 kilometers southwest on June 9th, and walked 8.12 kilometers southwest again on the 11th, which combined was only 11.82 kilometers.
The activity track of the elephant "tour group" in Shijie Township↓↓
Statistics from the drone monitoring team of the Yunnan Forest Fire Fighting Corps this week show that at other times, the elephant herd rests in the woods during the day, moves along mountain ridges, river valleys, and highways in the evening, enters farmland for food, and returns to the woods in the early morning.
Why do the elephants circle around in a small area in Shijie Township?
Today, the elephant group going north has been active in Shijie Township, Yimen County, Yuxi City for a week. Why does the elephant group move around in a small area in Shijie Township?
A 5-person team conducts real-time detection of outliers
CCTV reporter Jiang Shulin:
According to the general information from the front headquarters, the outlier elephant entered the dense forest of Anning City, Kunming City on the evening of June 8th. Three days later, it arrived here at 17:00 on June 11th. The Jingning district of Kunming is about 14 kilometers away from the elephant group.
The Yunnan Provincial Fire Brigade sent a 5-member team to monitor the unique elephant in real time.
Many scientific studies have proved that elephants can communicate with each other through infrasound waves and have the opportunity to meet again
Chen Mingyong, a professor at the School of Ecology and Environment of Yunnan University, said that analyzing statistical information can reveal that the elephant herd and the call of the single elephant were monitored on June 11 and 12 respectively.
On the 12th, they called each other longer, and then they discovered that the single elephant was moving in the direction of the elephant group. Then, according to many scientific researches at home and abroad, it can be proved that elephants can communicate with each other through infrasound waves, and the propagation of infrasound waves may be calls or other ways. Then the information transmitted by infrasound waves can reach a distance of more than ten kilometers or even more. Therefore, the elephant group and the single elephant still have a chance to meet again.