KATHMANDU: At least 41 rhinos in Chitwan National Park died due to causes other than poaching in the past eight months.
Some rhinos had natural death whereas others died in accidents, according to Gopal Bahadur Ghimire, conservation officer at the park.
This is the highest rhino death rate owing mostly to natural causes. In the year 1999/2000 total 28 rhinos had died of natural causes.
In the series of rhino death, the latest incident occurred last Sunday when a female rhino died at Bharatpur Metropolitan city-23. The rhino died after a septic tank cover of a hotel it was stepping on collapsed due to its weight.
Other reasons of the death including natural are, due to delivery complications of female rhinos, fight involving two rhinos, attack by a tiger etc.
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