Arikompan, a wild tusker translocated from Chinnakanal to the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) due to his habit of raiding ration shops for raw rice, appears to have reverted to his old habit by attacking a ration shop in Tamil Nadu early Monday morning.
A Tamil Nadu Forest department official said the tusker raided the ration shop around 2 a.m. at Manalar, near Megamalai, in Tamil Nadu. The tusker vandalised the window of the ration shop but left the spot without taking rice from there.
The tusker also tried to attack the door of a layam (cluster home) at Manalar. Later, the elephant moved to the Kerala forest area early morning and entered the forest camp at Upper Manalar. It later moved to the forest border area in Tamil Nadu, said the official.
