Hyderabad: An easy gadget, developed using high-strength woven belts as restraints to limit the motion of captive elephants utilized in wildlife rescue operations in Maharashtra, has actually led to elimination of painful injuries on the legs of pachyderms triggered by standard steel chains used as restraints.Industrial strength belts, capable of dealing with loads of more than 5 tonnes, are being used on the legs of elephants.
These belts, linked to a shackle, are linked to steel chains that afford the animals some space to move.
Though the elephants we use are trained, as with all captive elephants, these ones which we use in operations to tranquilise wild animals consisting of tigers, are connected to chains.
However in the past, the chains were wrapped around the legs straight.
It was quite common for the elephants to develop wounds since the chains would begin biting into their skins, Dr Ravikant Khobragade, a wildlife vet working in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, informed this paper.
There was as soon as an occurrence of an elephant in 'musth', a state when it is high on testosterone and began pulling the chain on its leg causing a deep cut and nasty injury and the elephant also eliminated a mahout, he stated.
Captive elephants that are chained and often suffer from wounds from steel chains that bite into their legs, and the gadget Khobragade developed has actually made it much safer for elephants.
Khobragade, incidentally, is the wildlife veterinarian on call for any possible capture of tiger A2, a roaming huge cat from Maharashtra that in November and December last eliminated 2 tribals, a young man and a girl, in Asifabad district of Telangana.
The animals are no longer irritated by the steel chains on their legs.
The mahouts too are happy, he said, about the brand-new belt restraints being utilized for 5 elephants in Tadoba tiger reserve, and a couple of more in other tiger reserves in Maharashtra.
Numerous states have captive elephants to help in rescue, or tranquilising of wild animals that may stray into human habitations, or need to be captured for other reasons.
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