{"id":377,"date":"2022-05-17T06:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T06:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2022-05-17T12:47:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T12:47:21","slug":"elephant-feeding-on-tender-branches-of-rohini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/elephant-feeding-on-tender-branches-of-rohini\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant feeding on tender branches of Rohini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rohini (Mallotus philippensis) is a small to medium sized tree found in the wild from Afghanistan to Australia. It is a common tree in Corbett Tiger Reserve. The tree is also called Kumkum tree because of its fruit being covered in a red powdery substance that can be used as a dye.<br \/>\nRohini is one of the most favorite food plants of elephants. An elephant will probably never walk past one without plucking a branch. The tender branches, once torn from the tree, are held in the mouth and the elephant uses its trunk like a hand to stripe off all the leaves that are dropped. It&#8217;s the tender benches of Rohini that the elephants love to eat.<br \/>\nThis female elephant was recorded feeding on the tender branches of a Rohini tree in Dhela Tourism Zone of Corbett Tiger Reserve. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/17dWKa3jVfQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohini (Mallotus philippensis) is a small to medium sized tree found in the wild from Afghanistan to Australia. It is a common tree in Corbett Tiger Reserve. The tree is also called Kumkum tree because of its fruit being covered in a red powdery substance that can be used as a dye. Rohini is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jimsjungleretreat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-18.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}