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1 Blue Cows?
2 Words to Know This story is set in India. It happens in the Indian states of Rajasthan and Punjab.
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4 In Rajasthan, there are huge groups of hundreds of nilgai. These animals eat everything they can find, and they especially love to eat farmers ́crops. One local farmer shows examples of the damage that the animals have done to his crops. The plants ́leaves are gone; all that is left are the dead bases of the 3 plants and dry, trampled earth. He then goes on t explain what happens each night when the nilgai come. He says: "They start coming as soon as it ́s dark. They stampede through the crops, eating a much as they can before we can drive them off." 4 3 4 trampled: made flat or dug up by the feet of people or animals stampede: run fast