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Elephant dies after eating explosive-filled pineapple
    2020-06-08  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A PREGNANT wild elephant originally belonging to Silent Valley National Park (SVNP), Palakkad, India, met with a tragic death after she ate a pineapple packed with firecrackers inside, allegedly meant as a snare for wild boars.

The injured elephant remained calm though she was under excruciating pain and didn’t create any havoc much to the disbelief of the forest department officials. But she died at Velliyar River on May 27, in a standing position with its trunk in the water.

The 15-year-old elephant had been standing in the river to feel buoyant so that its mouth and tongue, which had exploded, could get some form of relief.

The incident was brought to light by Mohan Krishnan, a section forest officer, on his Facebook page.

The post has since become viral with more than 1,200 shares.

The elephant had allegedly come to the town hoping to get more food so as to care for its calf, which was in its womb.

When the pathetic condition of the elephant came to the knowledge of the forest officials, they brought in two Kumki elephants, Surendran and Neelakantan, to bring the injured elephant to the shore from the river. But much to their disappointment, the elephant met its death in water.

Postmortem examination revealed that the final cause of her death was due to asphyxia where water had got into its lungs and trachea.

“I have so far done more than 250 postmortems of elephants alone in my more than two decades career. But this was the first time I was so moved as I could hold the foetus of the baby in my hands. Initially, none of us was aware that the elephant was pregnant. After I had seen its heart and then happened to see the amniotic fluid did I realize that it’s pregnant,” said Dr. David Abraham.

Another senior forest official told The New Indian Express that this is not the first time an elephant died due to an explosion in its mouth caused by crude country bombs or firecrackers being used in snares to catch wild boars by people afraid of destroying its vegetation.

In April, another wild elephant in Pathanapuram in Kollam district died in similar circumstances.

But the latest incident in Palakkad is more saddening as in another 22 months it would have delivered a calf elephant.

Samuel Pachuau, a wildlife warden in SVNP, said that an investigation has been launched.

“We have increased our intelligence networking as well as boundary patrolling as the incident happened between the park [which is on the buffer zone] and the plantation areas,” he said.

(SD-Agencies)

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