Wild elephants have stomped 300 miles through towns and neighborhoods in China, poking their heads through doors and drinking and eating whatever they like. One theory: the leader “lacks experience and led the whole group astray.”
China’s latest social-media stars are large, riding a sugar high and destroying everything in their path. They may also need a map.
In recent weeks, a herd of 15 wild elephants on a long, strange trip out of the jungles of far southwestern China have transfixed millions of people across the country. Since the elephants left a wildlife reserve near China’s border with Laos and Myanmar last year, they have marched steadily northward and, since Wednesday evening, have been roaming the outskirts of Kunming, a city of 8.5 million residents.
Millions have tuned in to watch the elephants’ 300-mile journey on television and on internet live streams, or tracked their movements on social media. While enamored with the creatures, some increasingly see the elephants and their journey as a lesson on the perils of nature and a rapidly urbanizing China crashing into one another, especially as development booms.
Videos of the parading pachyderms strolling down empty streets, breaking into a car dealership and, in the case of one mother elephant, using her trunk to lift her baby out of a gutter, have gone viral.
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