Coimbatore: An elephant calf aged just seven months was once trapped in the main canal of Varattupallam dam, the place it came with the mother elephant to drink water, at 6.30am on Sunday.
On seeing the calf helpless, farmers alerted Anthiyur wooded area vary officer P Balakrishnan, who reached the spot at the side of his group. When they attempted to rescue the calf, the mother elephant chased them away.
Following this, foresters chased away the mother elephant by means of bursting firecrackers and brought an earth mover to chop a pathway to assist the calf pop out of the canal.
As quickly because it came out of the canal, the calf reunited with its mom, which was once waiting at the wooded area boundary.
Pointing out that just about all of the waterbodies in the Anthiyur wooded area vary in Erode wooded area department had dried up, the wooded area vary officer said wild elephants entering the canal to quench thirst was once a common sight this present day. “We are actually growing synthetic waterholes to prevent elephants from entering the main canal area.”
He said in a an identical incident a four-month-old elephant calf was once trapped in the main canal on Saturday night time as neatly. “The calf entered the canal with its mom but couldn’t pop out even with the latter’s assist. We then helped the calf out of the canal and reunite with its mom.”
On seeing the calf helpless, farmers alerted Anthiyur wooded area vary officer P Balakrishnan, who reached the spot at the side of his group. When they attempted to rescue the calf, the mother elephant chased them away.
Following this, foresters chased away the mother elephant by means of bursting firecrackers and brought an earth mover to chop a pathway to assist the calf pop out of the canal.
As quickly because it came out of the canal, the calf reunited with its mom, which was once waiting at the wooded area boundary.
Pointing out that just about all of the waterbodies in the Anthiyur wooded area vary in Erode wooded area department had dried up, the wooded area vary officer said wild elephants entering the canal to quench thirst was once a common sight this present day. “We are actually growing synthetic waterholes to prevent elephants from entering the main canal area.”
He said in a an identical incident a four-month-old elephant calf was once trapped in the main canal on Saturday night time as neatly. “The calf entered the canal with its mom but couldn’t pop out even with the latter’s assist. We then helped the calf out of the canal and reunite with its mom.”
Elephant calf trapped in Erode canal reunited with mother
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