Слоны-мустанги ещё, говорят, там есть...
http://www.southeastasiapilot.com/anchorages/interview-island.htmhttp://www.juniata.edu/projects/it110/ms/References/450_Research/3_Ele phant_Census.pdfПардоньте что без перевода, суть: "было выпущено 40 особей, они расплодились и мы их считаем"
"...Elephants were brought over to the Andaman Islands for forestry operations. One such forestry operation was carried out on Interview Island, west of Mayabunder on Middle Andaman Island. Since the company carrying out the operation went bankrupt, the elephants being used for the operations were were released on the island in 1962. Approximately 40 elephants were released then (Sivaganesan, 1993).
Elephants are not normally found in the Andamans. Interview Island is predominantly evergreen and semi-evergreen forest, and has an area of 133.87 km2 according to Forest dept. statistics (Anon, 1998). However, this calculation is based on the low tide line, and the area under vegetation is around 105 km2. A percentage of this is under mangrove, which is not used by elephants; Sivaganesan & Kumar (1995) estimated the available habitat to be around 70 km2. Fig. 1 shows a map of the northern part of the Andaman Islands and indicated where Interview Island is.
In 1992 these elephants were censussed again. (Sivaganesan & Kumar, 1995). The number was then estimated at around 70 animals, using dung counts. This appears to represent a phenomenal rate of increase. Considerable damage to the vegetation was recorded during this study, raising concerns about the future of this population. I therefore carried out another survey in 2001...."