The Hindu
May 7, 2007
It had fallen into a ditch and injured itself; in good condition now
Bhubaneswar: After keeping the wildlife authorities, police and local people on tenterhooks for three days, a herd of elephants, which had entered an area on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar retreated on Sunday to the jungles.
The elephants, that returned towards the Chandka forest early Sunday morning, left behind a calf which had fallen into a ditch on Saturday injuring itself.
"Two doctors from the Nandan Kanan Zoological Park examined the injured calf and found it to be in good condition. The calf was being fed artificially," divisional forest officer of Chandka A.K. Patnaik said.
Arrangements were being made to keep the calf in an enclosure in the natural environment so that the herd could interact with it and take it away with them by breaking the enclosure whenever they wanted, Pranab Mohanty, range officer, said.
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