Wild elephant ‘Shankar’ captured
The Hindu
Shankar, a wild elephant alleged to have been responsible for the deaths of three persons in accidental confrontations in the Gudalur forest division last year, was finally tranquillised and secured with ropes in Cherambadi in Pandalur by the forest department on Friday.
The around 20-year-old elephant had been evading efforts to capture it since February 4, when it re-entered Tamil Nadu from Kerala to where it had fled in December last. Forest department officials said that four kumki elephants – Kalim, Sujay, Vijay and Srinivasan were brought to the location from the Theppakadu elephant camp from the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) to assist in the capture of Shankar.
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