Chinese Elephants to the North - SettimanaNews

Chinese Elephants to the North - SettimanaNews: Millions of Chinese viewers can’t stop watching them live, and a score of drones follows them day and night. The fifteen elephants, three calves, three juveniles, six females, and three adult males, marauding southeast China and heading north—trampling on their path crops, tea trees, and rice fields, roaming towns, ignoring roads and cars—are an unstoppable sensation for the nation. They have trekked over 300 miles across the country since escaping from a nature reserve in Yunnan last year. They are considered cute, adorable, almost larger pandas for the ultra-sentimental Chinese. Some 500 people work full time to keep them safe