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Shouting villagers chase elephants away from recently planted fields that border Kaziranga National Park. The elephants sometimes wander outside the park either to graze or to migrate to the nearby Karbi Anglong hills, where many of them spend the rainy season. With ever-growing human population - and the landscape a patchwork of villages, tea plantations and cropfields, human-elephant conflict grows more frequent. Elephants can devastate a year's crop in an hour, knock down bamboo bungalows - and they sometimes kill people.

In this case, the herd kept their babies in the middle for protection and evaded mobs all day, escaping back into the reserve after dark.