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Elephant dies at Nehru zoo

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JAN. 6. An elephant died at the Nehru Zoological Park on Wednesday following what the zoo authorities described as a cardiac arrest resulting in shock and death. This is the third animal to die in the last three weeks at the city zoo.

The zoo curator, B.Srinivas, said the 14-year-old elephant, Ganesh, had dislocated shoulder joint of front leg when it was young and was unable to put its weight on it. Due to the deformity, it slipped in the elephant enclosure yesterday evening and fell.

Crane used

The zoo staff tried to get the animal back to lateral position but could not succeed due to its heavy weight and a crane was used to correct the pachyderm's position. After a few minutes, when the hot water pressing was begun for proper blood circulation, the animal developed cardiac arrest resulting in shock and death, Mr.Srinivas said. An autopsy was performed on Thursday and it was later incinerated.

The end of the elephant came only two days after a leopard, Jaipal, died in the zoo. Earlier, another leopard, caught at Jubilee Hills, with a bullet injury caused in police firing, died while being treated on December 18. Incidentally, another elephant, Hashmi, met with an agonising end after it collapsed and failed to find its feet in August last year. And six months before Hashmi, three bisons died within a span of 10 days and the zoo staff attributed the deaths to Theileriosis, a disease of the bovines.

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