Encounter with mammoth....
In childhood I have heard many stories of close encounter and near escape from a fight with sloth bear. As I grew up have seen many such encounters with Lions, Elephants etc. on Discovery and National Geographic Channel. After I started to wander in wild, I have heard many such stories. Today, I will be narrating one such encounter of mine with one of the surviving mammoth on earth, The Rhinoceros . Novermber 2012; to check the progress of preparation for wildlife day celebration, I went to Falakata from Madarihat. After progress was checked Instead of direct road to Madarihat, I chose the jungle road. I decided to drive the vehicle. On the way back two of my range officers Buddhadeb and Ranjan Talukdar were narrating me the story of Rhino attacking the vehicle of Assistant Wildlife Warden long back. Listening to stories, I drove into tall dense grassland of Moyurdanga. Moyurdanga as name says, derived its name from mayur (peacock). Fertile alluvial soil of Torsa has made the...