Indian forest officials are looking for a man who dashed through the legs of a wild elephant. <br /><br />The incident took place on January 24 at Athgarh forest range in Odisha, East India. <br /><br />A wild elephant had strayed near a village and people from the area gathered to see it. While some tried to feed it with vegetables, a few took selfies. <br /><br />One of the onlookers reportedly placed a bet for 200 Indian rupees (3 US dollars) and then slipped through the elephant’s legs. <br /><br />A video shows the man suddenly dashing through the space between the elephant’s fore and hind limbs. The startled elephant reacts with a kick, which misses him, narrowly. <br /><br />The man was lucky as several attempts to pose for selfies or try daredevil stunts with elephants have ended in tragedy. <br /><br />In December 2017, a wild elephant crushed Jaykrushna Nayak, a resident of Angul district, who got too close to it to get a selfie.<br /><br />Odisha forest officials say they have noticed an alarming trend of selfie-seekers getting close to wild elephants, which wander close to human habitats looking for food. <br /><br />The chief wildlife warden of the state, Sandeep Tripathy, says the government is planning to organise a special campaign to discourage people from getting too close to wild elephants.
