JAKARTA, Apr 16 (NNN-ANTARA) – Two female elephants were found dead, with wounds on their rotting bodies, in Aras Napal village, Langkat district, Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, a conservation agency said yesterday.
Acting head of the North Sumatra Natural Resources Conservation Agency, Irzal Azhar, said, the carcass of the first elephant, without the left tusk, was found in an orange plantation near a river about 150 meters from the Mount Leuser National Park, with footprints of the elephants around it suggesting a possibility of fighting.
People heard the roar of the elephant on April 9 and anglers found the elephant’s body on the next day, Azhar said.
“The necropsy results concluded that the elephant died of blood loss with wounds on the chest and abdomen, which are identical to a male elephant’s lust attack,” Azhar said.
When they arrived at the site, officials found the skeleton of another elephant with a rotting body and incomplete bones, believed to have been dead for more than six months.
Forensic tests concluded that the tuskless elephant, with a fractured skull, presumably died after fighting with a male elephant.
The two elephants were buried at a nearby location.
