KINABATANGAN: The state Wildlife Department has confirmed that it received a report this morning about the carcass of a juvenile elephant that was found floating in Sungai Kinabatangan.
However, the department’s director, Augustine Tuuga, said he had yet to get feedback from the team which had gone to the location.
“The information was shared by a guide who was taking tourists along the Kinabatangan. From the picture that was circulated, it might be a three- or four-year-old elephant, but we are not sure yet,” he told the New Straits Times, adding that the animal’s body appeared to be intact.
A picture of the pachyderm’s remains and two voice recordings have gone viral via WhatsApp.
The voice recordings seemed to suggest that the carcass was spotted in the river near Danau Girang, where a wildlife research centre is located.