Monday, April 09, 2007

Bangladesh elephant dies in fight with another

March 23, 2007
Reuters

A century-old elephant died after a rare fight with another elephant in a Bangladesh forest, officials said on Thursday.
Forest officials retrieved the dead elephant, a male around 100 years old, and conducted an autopsy which suggested it died of injuries inflicted in a clash with another male.
"The two tusks, each weighing 15 kg, were chopped off from the dead elephant and will be preserved, but the body has been buried," said Avoni Kumar Tagore, a forest official at Cox's Bazar, 400 km (250 miles) southeast of the capital Dhaka.

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