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Jackfruits dumped on roadsides in Kodagu to feed wild elephants

Coffee growers find novel ways to protect their estates from herd raids Kushalnagar: Jackfruit is elephants’ favourite fruit and they can smell the ripe ones from miles away. Elephants are dead clever…

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Published June 5, 2021 · 3 min read
jackfruits dumped on roadsides

Coffee growers find novel ways to protect their estates from herd raids

Kushalnagar: Jackfruit is elephants’ favourite fruit and they can smell the ripe ones from miles away. Elephants are dead clever and determined. If the fruit is too high for them to reach they’ll shake the tree with their trunk until the fruit falls to the ground. And if there is an electric fence, they will break it down with a dry tree trunk and enter any plantation.

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