Summary of the story vet in the forest by dhriti k Lahiri Choudary from the extract trunk full of tales:seventy years with the Indian elephant
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In Vet in the forest, a team comprising of the Chief Wildlife Warden in the state, a tranquilizing specialist and the author himself travelled to the wildlife wing of the forest department to save a young tusker which had injured itself.
A veterinarian joined them.
They learned that a local man had taken care of the animal and fed it every day which was surprising.
They found the elephant in the middle of the herd and chased away the crowd using firecrackers, but this upset the tusker.
They then tranquilized and treated the elephant.
Contents Preface. I. Elephant and their ways 1. Growing up with elephants. 2. Lalji the Elephant Baba. 3. Mammoth love. 4. Take a Makna by the tail. 5. Gabbar Singh and Chomsky in Dalma. 6. The Saga of Harjit. II. Rogues and marauders 7. Rogues and marauders. 8. Initiation Cachar October 1960. 9. Bloodletting Cachar October 1961. 10. Dead giant Garo hills October 1967. 11. Red Eye Garo hills October 1968. 12. A ghostly visitor Garo hills December 1968. 13. The Makna of Mahadeo Garo hills December 1969 April 1970. 14. Identity crisis North Bengal June July 1975. 15. Teenage aggression North Bengal July 1988. III. Managing elephants in the wild 16. Introducing Dalma. 17. Return to sender East Medinipur 1987 1988. 18. Vet in the forest East Medinipur 1991. 19. Right of way Chinsurah 1993. 20. A collar too tight East Medinipur 1995. 21. Elephant in a Kraal West Medinipur 1995. 22. The Indian elephant a window on the future. Glossary. A Trunk Full of Tales most children learn about the facts of life from birds and bees. The present author's wisdom in this crucial area came from hearing stories about the private lives of elephants (of which his family owned seventeen). Dr. Lahiri Choudhury was fed elephant's milk as a child and though he graduated to other liquids by and by those first draughts infused him with at least one passion that might appropriately be termed elephantine. Dhriti K. Lahiri Choudhury grew up in Mymensingh district now in Bangladesh inhabiting a near mythic feudal world of household elephants shikar Indian classical music and good food. The partition of his country ended this lifestyle but not his obsession with elephants. Over seventy years he trawled the forests of lower Assam Barak Valley West Bengal Meghalaya Arunachal Pradesh and Orissa as well as Uttaranchal Mudumalai Bandipur and Periyar. His experience with elephants includes tracking them in undivided Assam penetrating remote areas in pursuit of declared man killing rogues. He surveyed the status and distribution of elephants studied man elephant conflicts and analysed the problems of managing elephants in the wild. He journeyed over thousands of miles of hazardous roads and walked through the north eastern forests of India leaning to read the language of the jungle. His acquaintance with wild elephants some of them man killers was sometimes from as close as a few feet. For those who have wondered where Jim Corbett's descendants are here is the answer. This book is in the best tradition of writing about animals a wildlife memoir peppered with anecdotes shot