A pregnant elephant was killed after eating a pineapple full of firecrackers when it strayed into a village in east India on May 27.

India's renowned artist Sudarsan Pattanaik paid tribute to the elephant and her unborn calf in the sand.

The mother elephant died near the Silent Valley National Park in Palakkad, Kerala.

Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has created a sand sculpture of the death a pregnant elephant that ate explosives-filled fruit. The elephant died in agony last week in the southern state of Kerala, the latest casualty in a growing conflict in South Asia between large animals and humans as ever more forest is lost to urban expansion.
Poor villagers in India, Sri Lanka and elsewhere often use firecracker or explosive-filled pineapples which act like pressure-activated landmines to protect their fields and homes from wild animals.