Jaw bombs, the deadliest threat to Sri Lanka’s elephants, are scaling up

Mongabay
Nov 19, 2021, 9:40 am212 pts
WASGAMUWA, Sri Lanka — Elephant calves arriving at dusk to drink at the Weheragala reservoir tank in Wasgamuwa National Park can be particularly playful. But one day in September 2020, a lonely young elephant was spotted exhibiting uneasy behavior. After all the other members of its herd had gone back to the…

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