Cow elephant found dead inside plantation

IDUKKI: A cow elephant was reportedly gored to death after it got into a
fight with a rogue tusker inside the KDHP Lakshmi Estate here on

Saturday. The carcass of the 14-year-old cow elephant was found by
plantation workers on Sunday morning.

Forest officials suspect it to be an attack by the tusker when the cow
refused to respond to its mating calls. Plantation workers said that they
had heard elephant roars on Saturday night.

The autopsy of the carcass will be conducted on Monday. Forest
department veterinary surgeon P Jayakumar, Munnar range officer M S

Suchindranath will lead the autopsy.

Suchindranath said that the actual cause of death can be revealed only after autopsy. “Presently we cannot conclude that the
death was connected to mating,” he said.

He also said that a herd of elephants had entered the plantation areas in the past two weeks.

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