HERD OF ELEPHANTS HEADING TOWARDS CHINESE CITY

A herd of 15 wild elephants have walked 300 miles from a nature reserve in China’s mountain southwest and are nearing the major city of Kunming. Chinese wildlife authorities say they don’t know why the herd left a nature reserve last year, or why they’re heading to the city (* They want to treat themselves to mani-pedis?). Last week, the elephants wandered the streets of the town of Eshan for six hours, with residents warned to stay indoors. On Wednesday, the herd was in Yuxi, about 12 miles from Kunming, a city of 7 million people. Authorities have blocked traffic on roads while the elephants crossed and were setting up barriers and using food as bait to try to keep them away from Kunming and other populated areas.
* “Hey, if we keep going, they’ll give us food!”
* Maybe they just got fitness watches and they want to get their step counts up.
* Are they walking in a line holding each other’s tails?
* Maybe they want to complain about the conditions at the nature preserve.