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Woman trampled to death in Wayanad
The Hindu
A 47-year-old woman was trampled to death by a wild elephant at Neykuppa under the Chethalayath forest range of the South Wayanad forest division on Friday morning.The deceased has been identified as
A 47-year-old woman was trampled to death by a wild elephant at Neykuppa under the Chethalayath forest range of the South Wayanad forest division on Friday morning. The deceased has been identified as Gangadevi, wife of Divakaran at Neykuppa, near Nadavayal, in the district. The incident occurred around 10.30 a.m. on the day, Forest Department sources said. A jumbo attacked Gangadevi while she was collecting firewood from the nearby forest along with a group of women in the area.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.