A toxicology report says that the elephants may have died from eating a millet crop infected with fungus.
The deaths of 10 elephants in three days in a national park in central India has raised alarm among conservationists.
The deaths have generated national headlines and criticism, putting the state's government on the back foot. The toxicology report says cyclopiazonic acid - a fungal neurotoxin - was found in the samples taken from the dead elephants. Mr Sukumar, who has worked extensively on the Asian elephant and human–wildlife conflict, told the BBC that elephants frequently eat millets when they enter fields looking for food.“My sense is that elephants tried to eat as much as possible in as little time as possible because they knew that farmers would chase them away,” he said.
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