
It’s a warm Friday afternoon at the Lakshmisagar Reserve Forest. Vijaykumar V., manager at the Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre (WRRC), is walking towards a thicket. “Durga...” he hollers.
From inside the forest, sounds of leaves rustling, branches creaking and twigs snapping emerge. Slowly, from between the trees, appears a big black head with fan-like ears and a long trunk.