Forest officials in south India tranquillised and captured a wild elephant that was allegedly causing crop damage, breaking its tusk when it was being loaded for transport. <br /><br />The rescued elephant, dubbed Chinnathambi, was recovered from around the Thadagam and Pannimadai regions in Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu state today (January 25). <br /><br />The forest officials attempted to dart the rogue elephant around 6:00am and missed, only darting it successfully around 6.15am. <br /><br />Nevertheless, as the tranquillised Chinnathambi was with a female elephant and a calf, forest officials struggled for about two hours to separate them by chasing away the mother and calf elephant, meaning Chinnathambi had to be tranquilised again.<br /><br />Once Chinnathambi was separated, forest officials then brought him under their control with the help of tame elephants Kaleem and Vijay. They then fitted him with a radio tracking collar.<br /><br />After struggling for four hours total, the combined efforts of officials and tame elephants loaded Chinnathambi into a lorry and now
