Six elephants including three calves died in India's north-eastern state of Meghalaya after getting drunk on rice beer and running through a paddy field where they were electrocuted, officials and residents said Tuesday. The incident happened in the village of Chandan Nukat, about 250 kilometres west of Shillong, the state capital, on Sunday night.

early 100 wild elephants rampaged on a river island in India's northeast Assam province on Saturday, demolishing homes, feasting on sugarcane and panicking residents, officials said. "The herd is wandering just about anywhere in Majuli. A forest guard was injured and about 50 houses have been pulled down, forcing residents to take shelter in a makeshift relief camp that we have set up," LS Changsan, Jorhat district magistrate told the media.

A French female tourist was stripped of her pants, shoes and socks while she took photographs of an wild orangutan in Malaysia's Semenggoh Wildlife Centre, located on Borneo. The orangutan involved in the incident is named Delima, and roams freely through the wildlife preserve.

A 67-year-old, ginseng hunter, has found a nearly one-pound wild ginseng root in western Maryland. Local dealers and market reports said it is a rarity and could be worth thousands of dollars. It was the biggest lumpy tan root with multiple twisted arms the hunter has ever found in his 45-years of hunting ginseng. Roger Welch, from Kitzmiller said, "Every time I go out to dig for roots, I hope it's a big one. This one, all the dealers said they'd never seen one this size. Only one had even heard of one that big. "

Chubby and overweight animals in a South Korean zoo will be put on a diet after almost ten years of eating processed foods. Animals at the Seoul Grand Park zoo had been eating more than the normal amount of food intake per day so the animal management have decided to increase amount of their natural food intake and decrease the processed foods.