{"id":437770,"date":"2026-10-14T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=437770"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:04:12","slug":"wild-elephant-found-dead-in-udayapur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/10\/14\/437770.html","title":{"rendered":"Wild Elephant found dead in Udayapur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Udayapur, Oct 14: <\/strong>An adult male wild elephant has been found dead in a paddy field in Belka Municipality-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elephant, aged approximately 20\u201325 years and known locally as &#8216;Sano Dare&#8217;, was discovered dead in the field on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief of the Division Forest Office in Udayapur, Gajendra Shrestha, stated that the wild elephant was found in a paddy field located about one kilometer away from the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elephant had been reportedly inhabiting the reserve area for over a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary assessment suggests the elephant may have died from natural causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The actual cause of death will be determined following a post-mortem examination conducted by the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Shrestha said. <strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Udayapur, Oct 14: An adult male wild elephant has been found dead in a paddy field in Belka Municipality-1. The elephant, aged approximately 20\u201325 years and known locally as &#8216;Sano Dare&#8217;, was discovered dead in the field on Tuesday. Chief of the Division Forest Office in Udayapur, Gajendra Shrestha, stated that the wild elephant was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":354145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,4,15,5,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-437770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-koshi","category-en-news","category-province","category-top-stories","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437771,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437770\/revisions\/437771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437770"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=437770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}