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A herd of 15 wild elephants is a city of 6.6 million people in China. The group of Asian elephants has nearly 500km from their habitat in a nature reserve in the south of Yunnan province, near the borders with Myanmar and Laos. China's official news agency, Xinhua, that there three calves in the herd. The giant beasts are north to the outskirts of the provincial capital, Kunming. They have along highways and through fields of crops over the past few months. A Chinese TV station that over the past week, the animals down the water in a water tank and on kilos of corn in farmers' fields. Their journey has been the Chinese public.

Authorities are now to ensure the herd does not Kunming city. Experts are the animals into taking detours that will get them to back towards their nature reserve. It is unclear as to why the animals have so far away from their original habitat. One reason could a decline in the amount of edible plants in their reserve. Naturally growing supplies of the elephants' favorite foods, such as plume grass, have . Another factor could be a rise in elephant numbers. Xinhua reports that the wild elephant population in Yunnan Province around 300, up from 193 in the 1980s. A further explanation is that the leader of the herd could have simply it astray.