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Forest department officials hope that the wild elephants will move on to another forest beat.Vijay and Bommi were taken for a short walk in and around the forest area to help them acclimatize, forest department officials said. Coimbatore: Vijay and Bommi, the two kumkis (trained elephants) brought from the Mudumalai Elephant Camp, started field operations at the Thadagam forest range on Saturday. They plan to station both the elephants on the forest fringes rather than deep inside the forest areas. “If the wild elephants stop coming to the villages and the Thadagam range in 15 days, we can consider the issue solved. Coimbatore-based kumkis Cheran and John will aid them in the efforts to chase away two rouge elephants that have intruded into the residential area.Together, the four tuskers will guide wild elephants Vinayaka and Chinna Thambi away from human habitations over the next fortnight..