“…Human deaths generally occur when villagers are trying to defend their crops or property or due to accidental encounters, but also sometimes when elephants attempt to search homes for food (Naha, Sathyakumar, Dash, Chettri, & Rawat, 2019). A study in North Bengal suggested that elephants were responsible for 80% of human medical cases due to HWC (Samaddar, Bagchi-Samaddar, Roy, & Das, 2020). Often in retaliation for the losses due to conflict (Gureja, Menon, Sarkar, & Kyarong, 2007), at least 100 elephants are killed annually by people (Rangarajan et al, 2010), though again documentation problems suggest this might be an undercount (Naha et al, 2019).…”