BHUBANESWAR: A 65-year-old tusker found dead under the Chandaka forest range at Dashpur village near Andharua on the outskirts of the capital city on Tuesday. The body of the pachyderm was lying in an agricultural field around 2 km from the village.
According to the wildlife officer
Fanindra Bhushan Nanda, they generally do tracking elephants. On the day of the
incident, they tracked 13 elephants entered to the forest, but could not found
one tusker, he said. After sometime they found the body of the tusker near
Dashpur village, Nanda added.
According to the forest
department sources, the tusker was roaming around the forest alone. The forest
officials said that the tusks of the elephant, one measuring 53 inches and
another 49 inches, were intact.
The villagers of Dashpur said the
elephants died due to fighting with other elephants in the reserved forest as
the carcass of the elephant had several injury marks on its body. The exact
cause of the death of the elephant could be ascertained after post-mortem,
forest officials said.
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