Sweden Rejected by her herd, an elephant calf dies in a zoo
An
elephant calf
has died on the Indonesian island of
Sumatra
after losing half its trunk after
falling into a trap set by poachers
, despite the efforts of its keepers to save its life, local authorities said Thursday.
"We received information that some neighbors in the area had seen an elephant calf separated from their group (...) His trunk was injured,"
Agus Arianto
, head of the Aceh Natural Resources Conservation Agency
, told
EFE
.
The little one-year-old pachyderm fell
behind his herd last Saturday when he fell into the trap
in Aceh, a region located in the north of the island of Sumatra, west of the Indonesian archipelago.
The female was
one of the last 700 wild elephants left on the island of Sumatra
and was already very weak when she was found the next day in Alue Meuraska, a village in a jungle area in the Aceh Jaya district.
Veterinarians
had to amputate part of her trunk
and the calf died two days later due to an internal infection.
"He also had eating problems because he couldn't digest food well
," Arianto explained by phone.
Poachers kill elephants primarily to seize the ivory tusks they sell for lucrative prices on the illegal market.
In
2018
, another elephant calf around 7 months old also died in Sumatra after falling into a wild pig trap and being abandoned by its herd.
Close-up image of the deceased elephant calf.HOTLI SIMANJUNTAKEFE
Pachyderms are intelligent and sensitive animals that create close and lasting bonds between members of the herd.
The
Sumatran elephant is a subspecies of the Asian elephant that is seriously threatened
due to the decline of its habitat due to agricultural development and human settlements, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The Indonesian archipelago is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet and has hundreds of threatened species.
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