Employees of a small restaurant in southern India were stunned when an unexpected visitor checked in late night - a fully grown adult male elephant. <br /><br />Murugesan, who works at Kannatha eatery in Thagadam near Coimbatore, wanted to go out to dispose of garbage after wrapping up the day’s work on July 8. <br /><br />He saw an elephant stepping in and immediately retreated.<br /><br />The elephant walked in and stood at the entrance of the small eatery. It sniffed around with its trunk, sampled water kept in a drum and gently tried lifting eggs and a packet of bread. <br /><br />Staff left the restaurant from the back door and called on the forest department. <br /><br />But the elephant quickly lost interest in the human food and left on its own without causing any damage to the property.<br /><br />A forest officer said: “The elephant was not hungry and was curious. It was perhaps drawn in by the smell and the lights. It is fortunate that it did not create a conflict situation.”<br /><br />Coimbatore district witnesses frequent incidents involving elephants.
