Elephant begging for life after being a victim from crude Mouth bomb | Received treatment HD

A heart wrenching story of critically injured elephant calf who was a victim from horrific jaw exploding trap. This poor elephant was noticed wandering near the village border with weakened condition by the resident villagers. The elephant came to human resident area ,as if he is asking for the help of humans to save his life. Being distressed by the severe condition of the elephant, the villagers quickly informed the nearest center of department of wildlife conservation. The country’s elephants and young elephants in particular are increasingly maimed and killed by the explosive bait left out by the hunters to target the bush animals. It was noted that most of the wild elephants who are injured with jaw exploders come in to closer vicinity of the human as if they know that the brutal impact of the injury has caused them unable to survive alone in the forest. In previous day, the team supplied saline to the elephant and applied antiseptic ointment in injured mouth. Today they visited again to treat the elephant. The prognosis of the elephant is rather grave.th elephant is severely weakened due to prolonged starvation as he is unable to eat properly as the mouth has shattered badly. Therefore the officers decided to give saline continuously to the elephant. The IV line is connected to the ear vein. Therefore the ear area is thoroughly cleaned using a disinfectant to avoid infections through the injected sites.Saline would be helpful for the elephant to regain the lost body energy. Although his condition is severe , the officers are trying their best to save the life of the elephant. Antibiotics, painkillers and multivitamins are mixed with the saline. The antibiotics will be helpful to boost the immunity of the elephant to heal the wound in the mouth. The brutal impact of the injury has severely destroyed the mouth of the elephant. The injury was caused by an improvised explosive device hidden in fodder bait used by villagers to hunt animals. Known locally as “jaw exploder,” these devices are a combination of gunpowder and fragments of metal or rock packed tightly together. When bitten into or crushed inside an animal’s mouth, they explode, shattering the jaw and destroying the tongue and other soft tissue.It’s meant to be a method of killing wild boars, a popular yet illegal bushmeat, and other game animals, but has contributed significantly to Sri Lanka’s increasing elephant deaths. Often, it is the young elephants below 10 years of age that get killed. The majority of the victims are elephant calves under 5 years of age. The young calves are both curious and playful. They also pick things and insert into their mouths, unlike the more wary adult elephants. Perhaps the younger beasts are able to see objects much closer as they have not yet grown to their full height. But adult elephants could be more discerning and able to detect the smell of gunpowder. They started cleaning the injured mouth again with disinfectant agent. A closer look showed