Forest officials suspect elephant might have moved to Kerala
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It could have been regularly crossing the border between the Nilgiris and Nilambur
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Forest staff checking the camera set up to monitor the movement of wild elephants near Gudalur on Friday. | Photo Credit:
M. Sathyamoorthy
It could have been regularly crossing the border between the Nilgiris and Nilambur
As the operation to tranquillise the wild elephant nicknamed ‘Shankar’ entered its fifth day at Gudalur in the Nilgiris on Friday, Forest Department officials suspect that the animal might have moved into Kerala.
A senior Forest Department official said the tusker was not spotted anywhere within Gudalur on Friday. As per the inputs from a team that visited Nilambur in Kerala, the elephant was spotted within the Nilambur Forest Range in November. Hence, it is now being looked into whether the elephant regularly moved between Tamil Nadu and Kerala, he said.