Personnel from Maharashtra’s forest department rescued a pair of adolescent wild dogs that had fallen into an open well in Malvan taluka of Sindhudurg district in the coastal Konkan region last week, a report in the newspaper Mumbai Tarun Bharat said.
The two animals were found inside the well of local resident Mahendra Manjrekar at Mauje Chinder Bazaar Wadi in Malvan taluka on Thursday. At first glance, Manjrekar thought the animals were foxes and so he notified the village police patil, Dinesh Patade. The officer in turn informed the forest department whose personnel soon arrived at the scene with a cage. The cage was lowered into the well and both the creatures were hauled out.
Wild dogs, an omnivorous species, thrive in the Sahyadri-Konkan region of Maharashtra, in the north-central Western Ghats. Because the Sahyadri-Konkan corridor has a high population density and a lot of land and forest is privately owned, sighting omnivorous animals such as wild dogs in residential areas has become a rather normal occurrence in the region, local residents said.
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