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Elephant found dead in Mudumalai buffer zone
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A 15-year-old pregnant elephant was found dead in the Singara beat of the Singara Forest Range on Monday evening. A post-mortem was performed on the carcass on Tuesday.
Deputy Director of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR), Buffer Zone, L.C.S. Srikanth, said the autopsy revealed that the animal had suffered a fall after trudging through unsteady ground and was unable to extricate itself. The autopsy had also revealed that the elephant was carrying a 15-month-old foetus. “Apart from this, the animal also seems to have been attacked by a tiger while it was stuck, which could have been another causative factor in its death,” said Mr. Srikanth.
Babul Supriyo, Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change presented the data in Parliament while replying to a question on a large number of wild animal deaths.