{"id":53752,"date":"2023-03-24T13:05:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T04:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/24\/kerala-elephant-mission-to-capture-arikompan-the-rice-tusker-india"},"modified":"2023-03-24T13:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T04:05:56","slug":"a-team-of-vets-four-kumki-and-one-tranquilliser-dart-the-plan-to-capture-keralas-marauding-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53752","title":{"rendered":"A team of vets, four \u2018kumki\u2019 and one tranquilliser dart: the plan to capture Kerala\u2019s marauding elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known as \u2018Rice Tusker\u2019 for his insatiable hunger, the 30-year-old pachyderm has been terrorising the Indian region for years<\/p>\n<p>The trail of destruction left by an elephant in Kerala could finally come to an end on Sunday as a crack team of experts plan to capture him.<\/p>\n<p>The team of 71 vets, forest officers and field workers have identified a specific spot among the wooded hills in Idukki district where Arikompan \u2013 which means the Rice Tusker, because of his love for rice \u2013 comes every couple of days to cool off in water.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/24\/kerala-elephant-mission-to-capture-arikompan-the-rice-tusker-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as \u2018Rice Tusker\u2019 for his insatiable hunger, the 30-year-old pachyderm has been terrorising the Indian region for yearsThe trail of destruction left by an elephant in Kerala could finally come to an end on Sunday as a crack team of experts plan to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,62,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53753,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53752\/revisions\/53753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}