One of China's wandering elephants is returned to reserve

A male Asian elephant that had separated from a herd that has been wandering southwest China for more than a a year has been anaesthetized and returned to its nature reserve

BEIJING -- A male Asian elephant that had separated from a herd that has been wandering southwest China for more than a a year has been anaesthetized and returned to its nature reserve. The lone elephant was captured in Yuxi city and sent back to the Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, about 280 kilometers (175 miles) away, on Wednesday, a command center monitoring the elephants said. It appeared healthy and did not have any suffer from any injuries, the Yunnan provincial government said in a social media post. The remaining 14 elephants have been moving southward recently but are still far from the reserve.