Kicker - Elephants on the town

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Well, we all enjoy a night out on the town on occasion.

Things can get out of hand, though, when the revelers are a herd of elephants.

Fifteen pachyderms wandered out of their nature preserve and took a 300 mile hike to the outskirts of the city of Kunming, population 7 million. Now the task is to persuade the herd to head back home. They’re trying to lure the animals out with elephant favorites like grasses and root vegetables.

An expert in Asian elephants says it’s possible the elephants’ leader “lacks experience and led the whole group astray.”

BROWN: Might be a human application there...

REICHARD: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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