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===Attacks=== Elephants can exhibit bouts of aggressive behaviour and engage in destructive actions against humans.<ref name="huggler">{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/animal-behaviour-rogue-elephants-419678.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080514154342/http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/animal-behaviour-rogue-elephants-419678.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 14 May 2008 | title = Animal Behaviour: Rogue Elephants | author = Huggler, J. | work= The Independent | date = 12 October 2006 | access-date = 16 June 2007 | location=London}}</ref> In Africa, groups of adolescent elephants damaged homes in villages after cullings in the 1970s and 1980s. Because of the timing, these attacks have been interpreted as vindictive.<ref name="teenage">{{cite news | url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/02/16/1140064206413.html | title = Elephant rage: they never forgive, either | author = Highfield, R. | work = [[The Sydney Morning Herald]] | date = 17 February 2006 | access-date = 16 June 2007 | archive-date = 20 September 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130920190617/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/02/16/1140064206413.html | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Siebert, C.|date=8 October 2006|title=An Elephant Crackup?|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08elephant.html|access-date=25 October 2012|archive-date=14 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114151839/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08elephant.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In parts of India, male elephants have entered villages at night, destroying homes and killing people. From 2000 to 2004, 300 people died in [[Jharkhand]], and in [[Assam]], 239 people were reportedly killed between 2001 and 2006.<ref name="huggler" /> Throughout the country, 1,500 people were killed by elephants between 2019 and 2022, which led to 300 elephants being killed in kind.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Krishnan |first=Murali |date=19 August 2022 |title=India sees uptick in deadly elephant attacks |work=[[Deutsche Welle]] |url=https://www.dw.com/en/india-sees-more-deadly-elephant-attacks-as-habitats-shrink/a-62863404 |access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref> Local people have reported that some elephants were drunk during the attacks, though officials have disputed this.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/241781.stm | title = India elephant rampage | work = BBC News | date = 24 December 1998 | access-date = 16 June 2007 | archive-date = 26 May 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070526151446/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/241781.stm | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/482001.stm | title = Drunken elephants trample village | work = BBC News | date = 21 October 1999 | access-date = 16 June 2007 | archive-date = 26 December 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071226035744/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/482001.stm | url-status = live }}</ref> Purportedly drunk elephants attacked an Indian village in December 2002, killing six people, which led to the retaliatory slaughter of about 200 elephants by locals.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2583891.stm | title = Drunk elephants kill six people | work = BBC News | date = 17 December 2002 | access-date = 16 June 2007 | archive-date = 8 April 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130408031502/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2583891.stm | url-status = live }}</ref>
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