Tuskers’ fight cause of elephant death, hunt on for ‘killer’

BIJNOR: A day after a decomposed carcass of an seven-year-old male elephant was discovered from Rajgarh elephant reserve in Bijnor's Najibabad forest division, its post-mortem conducted by experts from Wildlife Institute of India, Lucknow and Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly revealed that it sustained wounds in a fight with another tusker and bled profusely.

A hunt is now on to find the other tusker to prevent similar incidents. Rajgarh is connected with both Rajaji and Corbett National Parks in neighbouring Uttarakhand.

Najibabad’s divisional forest officer Udayveer Singh said, “The young elephant was attacked by a mature elephant having sharp tusks while the dead elephant’s tusks were small and blunt.”

According to official sources, post-mortem report said the dead elephant’s bone above its tail was found fractured and there were injury marks caused by another elephant’s tusks on its body.


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