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Elephants forage for food in Sri Lankan landfill

Heartbreaking photos depict elephants scouring an encroaching landfill for food in Sri Lanka, which has inadvertently caused them to ingest harmful pollutants.

The phenomenon has been dubbed “peculiar” and “sad” by Tharmaplan Tilaxan, a Jaffna-based photographer who took the tragic snaps near a jungle in the nation’s Ampara district. He had reportedly been documenting their devastating eating habits for months.

Most elephants normally travel over 18 miles per day and can seed up to 3,200 new trees a day through their droppings. However, the behavior of this particular pachyderm herd of up to 30 members has been drastically altered by the encroaching garbage dump, which harbors trash from around the country.

Due to their unfortunate foraging routine, the tuskers are “unintentionally consuming microplastics and polythene,” said Tilaxan, adding that biologists have found “large quantities of undigested pollutants” in their feces. The accidental chemical consumption has even proved fatal in many instances.

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