Wild elephant chilling now

After regaining her consciousness last evening the mighty elephant is chilling in soothing water as she is out of danger.

The mighty beast got back her sense around 6:00pm last evening when a dose of anti-mobilisation injection and 500 litres of glucose saline were transfused to her system to neutralise the sedating effects, Dr Tapan Kumar Dey, chief executive of Nature Conservation Society, told our Jamalpur correspondent.

Elephants usually sleep in standing posture. So the doctors loosened her chains for her relaxation.

The female elephant got separated from her herd in Assam and came to Bangladesh through Kurigram's Chilmari upazila on June 27.

The wild elephant has already created a buzz among the people for extensive media attention during its last 45 days of staying in Bangladesh.

'Bangabahadur'! Yes, that is the name which has been attributed to her by the doctors of Nature Conservation Society.

Clarifying the reason behind this naming, Dr Tapan said that  already the mighty beast has crossed around 1,000 kilometres of distance after entering into Bangladesh, so it deserves to be called 'Bangabahadur', the brave Bengal hero.

After the Fazr prayer today, thousands of onlookers from the surrounding villages came to see the mammoth, which she took as a potential threat to her.

She unleashed her front-leg chains and went down to a nearby pond where she had collapsed after losing her consciousness yesterday.

A 'mahut' (an elephant keeper) has been appointed to take care of the majestic elephant and his job is to try to tame the elephant besides providing a good care of her.

If necessary, two other elephants will be brought from Gazipur for her socialisation and making her less wild. After that, she will be taken to Gazipur National Park as per the instruction of Nature Conservation Society, Dr Tapan added.