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Guwahati, Nov 2 (PTI) A three-month-old elephant calf whose mother was electrocuted to death in Assam’s Golaghat district recently has found a new home at Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC), a WTI release said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Forest department personnel had rescued the animal and handed over the weak elephant calf to CWRC, a wildlife care facility jointly run by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and Assam Forest Department, and supported by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).<\/p>\n
The elephant calf’s 18-year-old mother died due to electrocution on October 24 when a high voltage wire fell upon her when the jumbo was moving in a herd in Dholagaon area.<\/p>\n
The elephant calf was rescued four days later by the forest department personnel from near Dholagaon.<\/p>\n
The baby elephant was suffering from starvation due to lack of mother’s milk and was in a highly stressed condition, the release said.<\/p>\n
During necropsy, we were certain that the dead elephant was a lactating one. But the baby was missing and we advised the forest officials to keep a watch, Dr. Samshul Ali, the veterinarian who did the post-mortem of the mother elephant and is now taking care of the baby elephant at CWRC, said.<\/p>\n
The new arrival at the rehabilitation centre has found a friend in Xadiya’, another baby elephant, among the six-member jumbo family of CWRC, the WTI release said.<\/p>\n
The vulnerable baby is gradually recovering from loneliness in presence of other elephant calves and pachyderms at CWRC, it added.<\/p>\n
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