Rameswaram​: A deer was found dead alongside the Rameswaram-Dhanushkodi road here on Friday, perplexing Forest department personnel as to how the tender quadruped managed to reach the island in the first place.
On hearing about the carcass of a deer near Othapatti, Forest department personnel rushed to the spot, took possession of it and are making enquiries about the incident.
Forest department has been maintaining a good amount of casuarinas as a forest species on Rameswaram island, sustaining.
It as a means to coastal protection along this fragile ecological zone that separates the Pamban/Rameswaram island from the mainland.
Sources said some four months back the department had received information of a deer doing the rounds in the casuarinas grove, but the animal could not be spotted.
But today a deer found dead along the coast worried the foresters. Further inquiries are on.
