The carcass of an elephant calf was retrieved from Pookuli check-dam area in Singara forest range of Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu on Sunday, officials said.
Forest department officials said the field staff had found the body of the one-year-old male calf on Saturday night and informed the senior officials, department sources said.
The officials, including a veterinarian, went to the spot on Sunday morning and carried out a post-mortem and sent the samples for toxicological, microbiological analysis and to the DNA repository, they said.
The officials suspect that the calf might have died in an attack by a tusker.
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Published 17 April 2022, 09:08 IST