A recent video shared on social media of an elephant attacking and damaging a car along the Kotagiri to Mettupalayam Road could be due to numerous disturbances to elephant habitats, including electric fencing, vehicular traffic and barricades along the highway hindering elephants’ access to habitats in the region, feel conservationists.
The video showed a young tusker destroying a car parked by the side of the road along the stretch near Mel Thattapalam. The tusker is known to have damaged buses along the same route in the past.
