Elephant calf dies of sunstroke

A carcass of an elephant calf aged about one and a half years was seized by Forest Department officials on Thursday in the Balikiari Reserve Forest under the Narasinghpur West Range after at least three days of its death.

Getting tips from the nearby villagers, the forest officials including Athagarh DFO Arun Kumar Swain and Range Officer Aviram Jena reached the spot, undertook an autopsy of jumbo calf and buried it there. Asked to Range Officer Jena regarding the cause of the animal’s death, he said that it was apprehended that it died of sunstroke as per the circumstantial evidences.


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