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