Bear, elephant found dead in Tamil Nadu’s Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, probe on

An official at the Reserve said that post-mortems would be performed in both cases to ascertain the cause of death.

Chennai: In two separate incidents on Tuesday (August 10), an adult sloth bear and a female sub-adult elephant were found dead at different locations in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu. According to the Deputy Director of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Buffer Zone, L C S Srikanth, it was around 6:30 am that the bear was found dead near a piece of land that was under cultivation. Later, around 11 am, the carcass of the female elephant was found by forest department field staff. He added that post-mortems would be performed in both cases to ascertain the cause of death.