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Raithane wild elephants roaming in Jhapa district have been identified and named. Shankar Luintel, a wildlife conservationist at the initiative of Mechinagar Municipality, Isimod and Orudat Nepal, named the wild elephants based on their behavior and appearance after studying them for a decade.
The names of the elephants have been made public through a booklet called 'Jhapaka Raithane Hattihuru'. Arjun Karki, chairman of Mechinagar Municipality-4, said that these elephants, which are making the local forest their habitat, are moving from Jhapa in eastern Nepal to Udaipur in the west and Assam in India in the east.
The 45-year-old male elephant with a yellow beard and lost sight in both eyes has been named 'Ankha Hatti'. The villagers used to call this elephant 'blind elephant', which shows a calm nature while walking in human settlements and prefers to roam alone. Ward president Karki said that the word 'blind' should not be used.
Another adult elephant with long and thick two tusks that keeps appearing in Nepal-India border area and roams alone in various community forests of Jhapa has been named 'Thulo Dahre'. A 12-year-old elephant with medium beard and beak has been named 'Chulbul Gaj' and another 55-year-old elephant whose beard has spread outwards in the opposite direction has been named 'Ghumante Rajagaj'.
The other elephants are named Muladante, Ghumante Gaj, Dhikiyaun Dahre, Thute, Prasad Gaj and Ek Dhere Small Gaj. One of the elephants has been named 'Prasad Gaj' because of the habit of moving only through Prasad Gowda, one of the various checkpoints where elephants enter Nepal from India. The beard of the Muladante elephant is shaped like a mule, while the two beards of the Dhikian elephant extend downward and upward.
Karki said that as a conservationist in Bahundangi, which has been experiencing human-elephant conflict for the past half century, Luintel studied the behavior and physical structure of wild elephants in depth. He said that Raithane elephants have been named so that they can know what kind of elephant they are and help them behave accordingly.
Raithane elephants found in Nepal belong to the Indian subspecies of Asian elephants. Ward president Karki said about the conservationist Shankar Luintel, who named the elephant, "He knows every elephant that wanders here from a distance." Elephants also know him.'
