For the elephants that took part in Mysuru Dasara and camped here for nearly 2 months, a far more challenging and grueling task awaits some of them on their return to their jungle camps.
While some of them will be deployed on jungle patrol and help the Forest Department in routine operations, the ‘’able-bodied’’ male among them can be expected to be deployed in combing exercises in areas of man-animal conflict.
Some of the combing operation entailing capture of tigers go on for weeks without respite and elephants like Abhimanyu - who carried the golden howdah during the Dasara procession – is cut out for it.
