CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu’s chief wildlife warden has ordered a probe into the deer deaths on the IIT-M campus and the Guindy children’s park.
Chennai wildlife warden E Prasanth has also written to IIT-M requesting it to reduce man-animal conflict. As per forest department records, six spotted deer, one blackbuck, one barking deer, one mongoose, a marsh crocodile, one rhesus macaque, two bonnet monkeys, one white peafowl and two munia birds died on the IIT-M campus in January this year.