Questão 97364

Elephant Calf Separated From Herd in India is Reunited With Its Mother

1. A baby elephant separated from his mother and the rest of his herd in a wildlife park in
2. Tamil Nadu, south India, has been reunited with them by park officials. An aerial photograph
3. taken by officials shows the mother and calf, three days later, enjoying a nap on a slight incline
4. with the baby nestled in a nook of his mother’s chest.
5. The baby, only four to five months old, became separated from the mother and the herd at
6. Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Pollachi on 29 December. Wildlife wardens saw him in distress looking
7. around for his mother. Usually, a herd does not move on when a calf goes missing but in this
8. case, both the mother and the herd had traveled about 2.5 miles (4 km) away. “Mostly, the herd
9. moves away but a smaller group hangs around to locate the missing calf. But sometimes the
10. herd, particularly in an area where there is animal-human conflict, moves away for safety. The
11. matriarch has to choose between the welfare of the herd and the welfare of one calf,” said Kartick
12. Satyanarayan, the chief executive of Wildlife SOS.
13. Once the calf was found, a day after he was separated, drones were used to locate the herd.
14. Before taking the calf to the herd, forest officials bathed him and spread mud on him to reduce
15. any human smells. “It means the mother and aunts will welcome the calf back and it reduces
16. their anxiety about any human imprint,” said Satyanarayan. The calf was then bundled onto a
17. truck to be taken for the reunion. The staff were asked to monitor the mother and calf for a few
18. days more and that is how they came across the two of them having a quiet nap.

(Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/03/elephant-calf-separated-from-herd-in-india-is-

reunited-with-mother – text especially adapted for this test).

What is the verb tense used in the excerpt “drones were used to locate the herd” (l.13)?