{"id":307,"date":"2007-10-23T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/wordpress\/?p=307"},"modified":"2008-03-15T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T21:05:53","slug":"elephants-electrocuted-in-drunken-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/elephants-electrocuted-in-drunken-rampage\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephants electrocuted in drunken rampage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">They had found rice beer in Indian village; incident reflects loss of habitat<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Associated Press<br \/>\nUpdated: 8:47 a.m. ET Oct 23, 2007<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>GAUHATI, India &#8211; Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India&#8217;s remote northeast, a wildlife official said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 40 elephants came to a village on Friday looking for food. Some found beer, which farmers ferment and keep in plastic and tin drums in their huts, said Sunil Kumar, a state wildlife official.<\/p>\n<p>They got drunk, uprooted a utility pole carrying power lines and were electrocuted in Chandan Nukat, a village nearly 150 miles west of Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya state, Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There would have been more casualties had the villagers not chased them away,&#8221; said Dipu Mark, a local conservationist.<\/p>\n<p>The elephants are known to have a taste for rice beer brewed by tribal communities in India&#8217;s northeast. Four wild elephants died in similar circumstances in the region three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s northeast accounts for the world&#8217;s largest concentration of wild Asiatic elephants with the states of Assam and Meghalaya alone estimated to have 7,000 of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great to have such a huge number of elephants, but the increasing man-elephant conflict following the shrinkage in their habitat due to the growing human population is giving us nightmares,&#8221; said Pradyut Bordoloi, a former forest and environment minister for Assam.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21432722\/?GT1=10450');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21432722\/?GT1=10450\">Click here<\/a> for the direct link to the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They had found rice beer in Indian village; incident reflects loss of habitat Associated Press Updated: 8:47 a.m. ET Oct 23, 2007 GAUHATI, India &#8211; Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India&#8217;s remote northeast, a wildlife official said Tuesday. Nearly 40 elephants came to a village [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}