A Little Snack ?. Photo by Trixie - Text by Siri
It is estimated that there are about three thousand wild elephants in Sri Lanka, with another, perhaps five hundred in captivity. Early part of this century, there were some 10,000 elephants distributed all over the island, but first the big game hunters, and later the rapidly expanding human habitats caused these numbers to dwindle rapidly. Today these remaining wild elephants are confined mostly to protected National Wild Life Parks in the south and the east.

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