Two four-year-old Sambar deer — a male and a female — downed in a farm well near the Nayodai stream at Kannivadi here on Sunday.
Forest Department officials, with the help of Fire and Rescue Services personnel, removed the dead animals from the 150-foot-deep well in the farm owned by Krishnamurthy. Veterinary doctors conducted a post-mortem and the carcasses were buried in the reserve forest.
The deer might have slipped into the well while they were in search of water in the night, forest officials said.
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Acute water crisis forces wild animals to move towards plains for water, say local people. Ground-level open irrigation wells often became a dead trap to wild animals. Two leopards and some Indian gaurs that had fallen into open wells in the past were rescued, said forest officials.
They might have slipped into it while in search of water