6 months ago
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The remains of a 10-year-old pistillate elephant were recovered successful the Mordhana Extension Reserve Forest (RF) astatine Aravatla colony adjacent Pernambut municipality successful Vellore connected Tamil Nadu - Andhra Pradesh border.
Forest officials said that it was during regular rounds successful the forests, a wood squad recovered carcasses including skeletons and hides of the carnal adjacent a watercourse successful the forests. Immediately, the squad alerted S. Raghupathy, wood scope serviceman (Pernambut) and B. Ashok Kumar, District Forest Officer (DFO), Vellore.
Forest officials said that Aravatla portion is simply a hilly country abutting Mordhana dam. The RF is astir 3 distant from Kaundinya Wildlife Sanctuary successful Chittoor (A.P). Most of the elephants successful the sanctuary navigate done forests successful the portion connected the elephant corridor to scope forests successful neighbouring Karnataka. The animals besides campy successful the portion during mango play earlier they instrumentality to the sanctuary.
Based connected alert, a squad of veterinarians from Hosur led by Jayachandran conducted a postmortem. Initial enquiry recovered that the carnal could person slipped from an elevated country to a adjacent watercourse successful hunt of h2o and got injured. Forest officials said the carnal could person died astatine slightest 1 and fractional months ago. A information of remains were taken arsenic samples for further investigation by the veterinary team. Carcass was burnt astatine the spot successful the beingness of elder wood officials. A probe is underway.
