PALAKKAD: The one-year-old female elephant calf that has strayed from the herd in the Krishna forest and arrived in the residential area of Attappadi Palur is waiting for its mother. The forest department staff who are taking care of the calf by giving her grass, fruit and water, are also hoping that the mother will come looking for her daughter. It is decided to foster her if the mother does not come. They named her Krishna since she came down from the Krishna forest. The forest rangers released the calf that came down from the forest the other day, but it came back again. Even late at night, Krishna is kept in a special shelter in the forest.
The calf was spotted by NREGA workers in Palur. She was standing very tired by the stream in the private garden. CJ Anandkumar, a local resident, informed the Puttur Forest Station. The forest rangers and emergency response team reached the spot and provided water, grass and fruit to her. After eating, the baby elephant was taken to the nearby Krishna forest in the forest department's jeep around noon and made to join the herd of wild elephants, but it came back at six in the evening. It is deduced that the baby elephant may have been abandoned by the herd due to poor health.
(Krishnavanam is a model forest made under the leadership of Sugathakumari on the land named after NV Krishna Warrier)