As told, with his pictures, by: Mr.TVN Murthy Honorary Wildlife Warden, Tumkur District, Karnataka and Founder Advisor, WANC, Tumkur. Email : tvnmurthy at vsnl dot com ©TVN Murthy (All rights reserved) ---------------- Dear Friends, It was yet another incident of Sloth bear being trapped by the farmers at Pandithanahalli near Hirehalli of Tumkur Taluk. It is common in Tumkur district for farmers to set up traps to catch wildboars that venture into farm land for food. This was unfortunate for a well built adult male sloth bear on the night of 20 July 2009. It was trying to cross the barbed wire fence of a farm land near TVS Electronics at Pandithanahalli. The trap hooked the front leg of the bear sometime during night and the animal was crying for help after that. ©TVN Murthy (All rights reserved) Early morning on 21 July, the local forest department officials and WANC took a local veterinary doctor to release the animal. The animal was sedated even a
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