Madhya Pradesh: More than 3 dozen peafowls die in Morena

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)