Is he from Brazil or Portugal? Footballer Ronaldo is famous among sports fans all over the world for his ability to score goals by overcoming the opponent's obstacles. Another Ronaldo who completes his work in the same agile and clever way is in Chitwan. Although his name is Ronaldo, he is not a human, but a giant animal, an elephant. That too, is not a domesticated animal, but a wild male elephant. The

atmosphere is of the World Cup. Brazilian Ronaldo, who has been in the news since 1998 and won the 2002 World Cup, is no longer on the field. Brazil, which has won the World Cup 5 times, has been eliminated from the competition this time. Cristiano Ronaldo's team from Portugal also returned home in defeat. In this atmosphere of the World Cup, a very sad news also came. It was an incident related to a wild elephant.

A wild male elephant named Dhurbe in Chitwan killed a mother and son who were sleeping at home on Saturday midnight. Along with the World Cup, Brazil and Ronaldo, this sad incident involving elephants has once again raised questions about the condition of the wild elephant Ronaldo.

While inquiring about Ronaldo, it was learned that a male elephant was born on Friday at the Khorsor Elephant Breeding Center near Sauraha, Chitwan. 'The father of the baby born to a female elephant named Chitwan Kali was 'Ronaldo,' says the center's head Manpuran Chaudhary, 'This baby was the 69th baby born at the Khorsor Breeding Center. The baby, who appeared weak at birth, did not survive.'

Chitwan National Park Information Officer and Conservation Officer Avinash Thapa Magar says that Ronaldo is the father of most of the calves born in Sauraha.

'Ronaldo' usually lives around Sauraha and Khorsor. Other male elephants also wait for an opportunity to mate with female elephants from Sauraha and Khorsor. But for this, a fight breaks out, and the winner in the fight chases the loser. The losing elephant does not dare to come in front of the winner. Ronaldo has been in his area for a long time by winning this fight.

Another wild male elephant named Govinde, 'Dhurbe' and other male elephants are also not absent from the Khorsor area. At one time, tusked Makuna elephants were also found in Khorsor. But Ronaldo's dominance is only that of his, says the center's head Chaudhary. The park's information officer Thapa Magar also said that 38 of the calves born in the center so far belong to Ronaldo.

Some incidents involving the wild male elephant Ronaldo are famous in Sauraha. One such incident is the incident that happened on the night of 14 Ashar 2071, 12 years ago.

A female elephant named Prakriti Kali was in the elephant enclosure of the National Trust for Nature Conservation in Sauraha. A modern electric fence was installed for the protection of the elephant enclosure. Ronaldo broke that electric fence. It was believed that an elephant could not break a modern electric fence, but the then assistant conservation officer of the park, Ramesh Thapa, had said that Ronaldo broke it in order to mate with the female.

Not only the electric fence, but the staff had also used other measures to stop Ronaldo. A female elephant was kept outside. But Ramkumar Aryal, the then administrative officer of the Sauraha office of the trust, said that Ronaldo broke the fence and went inside.

Ronaldo was attracted to the elephant's essence. The staff tried to prevent the 10-year-old elephant from mating with the rooster. If you touch the electric fence, you get an electric shock. After the shock, other animals do not dare to go near the fence again. But Ronaldo was not going to give up. He had been roaming around the fence for a month.

'Elephants are also intelligent. When he roams around like that, he gets a sense of where to step so that he does not get an electric shock. And he stepped on that very spot and broke the fence,' said the then Assistant Conservation Officer Ramesh Thapa. Ronaldo had arrived in Sauraha 12 years earlier, in the atmosphere of the 2002 World Cup. Brazilian player Ronaldo shone in the World Cup. Even though he won the World Cup.

‘At that time, Romeo, the wild male elephant, was active in Chitwan. Not many babies were born from the male elephants at the breeding center. But after 50 years, when Romeo came, then various elephants started being born from his intercourse,’ said Dr. Kamal Gaire, a long-time veterinarian at Chitwan National Park and now retired. Because he was a lover of domestic elephants, that elephant was named Romeo.

Another agile wild male elephant appeared after that Romeo. Because he came during the World Cup and ran and escaped like the player Ronaldo, the guides in Sauraha named him ‘Ronaldo’. Romeo died in Khorsor after getting electrocuted by an electric fence. Ronaldo filled Romeo’s gap. The Khorsor Elephant Breeding Center depends only on the wild male elephant.

Not only in Khorsor but also in Sauraha and various posts in the park, domesticated female elephants get pregnant only through sexual intercourse with wild male elephants, says Manpuran Chaudhary, head of the breeding center. It is not only humans who create barriers by erecting electric fences to prevent them from mating with the female they like. They also have to fight equally with other male elephants in the forest. Ronaldo's life is also a sign of that.

According to Kiran Rijal, a senior animal health technician working at the National Trust for Nature Conservation's Sauraha office, when elephants fight each other, they pull their tails with their trunks. He said that once half of Ronaldo's tail was gone. Two and a half years ago, the rest of the tail was gone. Ronaldo's tail disappeared in the fight. Despite being tailless, his activity has not decreased.

Unable to bear Ronaldo's dominance, Dhurbe, who arrived in Sauraha, has returned to the western part of the park, his territory. Where he has entered villages and killed people. Dhurbe is infamous for killing 25 people. Is Ronaldo, the lover of Khorsor, calm? Not at all. Ronaldo has also killed people repeatedly. He has attacked tourists and locals grazing cattle and buffaloes.