Morena: More than three-dozen peafowls died over the past four days in this district following consumption of poisoned rice grain.
A Forest Department team appropriated as many as 28 carcasses on Sunday in the vicinity of a shrine at Rithora village.
“Autopsy reports are awaited,” Deputy Director (Veterinary) R Tyagi said here on Monday.
Unfortunately, peafowls are in considerable demand at hotels in metropolitan cities and feathers also fetch high prices. (UNI)
