The elephants in the forest in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture of China’s Yunnan province left their habitats and reached Kunming on June 2 after traveling about 500 kilometers. Authorities had been following this migration for more than a month, and they assigned security forces to accompany the elephant herd. A baby elephant was seen taking a mud bath during the crossing.

Thanks to intensified protection efforts, the state’s elephant population has grown from 193 in the 1980s to 300 as of today.