As the crow flies (Ashish Gorde)

This story could read like a fable, but it is not. It is simply dressed like one, and might even give the impression of one of those quaint moral tales with deep underlying meaning, but it is nothing like that. It is simply an account of a bizarre experience in our garden, which may or may not have moral implications but we could take a chance.
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One possibility is that while the crows didn't know how to help the baby get back to the nest, they didn't want any other people venturing near for fear that their intent was to harm the baby. After all, they have no way of knowing you're trying to help.

We ran into a bunch of elephants blocking the road near a coffee estate. A young elephant had stuck its leg among some rocks and was unable to get free, and the herd didn't know how to help, but they were guarding it, so no one else would take advantage of its helpless state. Unfortunately they were also preventing the forest department trying to get close to the trapped one so they could free it.

Aparna