Bhubaneswar: Forest department personnel recovered the carcass of a male elephant calf near Odhana in Kalapat Reserve Forest under Telkoi Range in Odisha’s Keonjhar district on Thursday.
According to reports, the dead elephant calf was first spotted by locals at the reserve forest and they alerted the Forest department in this regard.
On being informed, Forest officials reached the spot, seized the body of the animal and started an investigation.
Forest officials said that the elephant calf was around one-year-old. The cause of the animal’s death is yet to be ascertained, officials said.
