An
attempt to save the lives of both elephants and people by moving the pachyderms
away from humans has failed in Sri Lanka, a new study finds.
Instead
of the relocated elephants living peacefully in their new homes, they wandered,
researchers found. Relocated elephants died
more often than problem elephants left in their original range. The relocated
elephants also killed more people than elephants that stayed put.
"We
were stunned that translocation neither solves the conflict nor saves
elephants," study researcher Peter Leimgruber, a research scientist at the
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, said in a statement.
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