Chittal fighting with the forest guard

On May 11, the Chittal child was rescued with the help of Shivshakti Community Forest Users Group located in Baijnath Rural Municipality-2 Makaibari of Banke. The child of the same Chittal is now growing up under the supervision of the armed forest guards . The Chittal, which has left its mother's arms, is now being raised by the staff of the forest office by feeding it with milk from a milking machine .

Kohalpur Sub Division Forest Office staff and representatives of Shivshakti Community Forest User Group rescued Chittal sitting in a cage at Division Forest Office . "He didn't even know how to drink milk in the early days," said forest guard Tej Bahadur Khatri, "now he has to bring a liter of milk." As it is hot, water should be fed throughout the day.'

Chittal's child was about one and a half months old when he was rescued. Forest guards take turns to look after the Chittal . "You have to care like a child". It may be because they have left their mother's arms, they look for robbers as soon as they see them,' said forest guard Resam Gurung, 'there is more concern that they will come out of the cage and go on the road, so they have to be closely monitored.' 8 armed forest security branch personnel are assigned in turn to feed, cradle and take care of the child. The said Chital child consumes one to two liters of milk a day. As the amount of food is increasing day by day, the amount of milk he eats is also increasing. An employee of the forest said that now not only milk is provided, but dal bags are also fed.

Twice a day in the morning and evening, the chital child is taken out of the cage for walking, and because the border of the office premises is not completely closed, it can escape somewhere in the afternoon, so it is kept in the cage all day long. After the Chittal child was chased by a dog, he lost his way and entered the village from the community forest area.

Ajit Karna of Division Forest Office Banke said that since the Chittal child has been used to living with people since childhood, it is now unsafe to leave him in his natural habitat. "It has become accustomed to walking around with people, since the armed forest guard branch staff have been feeding it since the beginning, it has become a special mix with those wearing the uniform of the branch," he said.

Conservationist Kamal Rai said that if Chital is kept in the environment of people for a long time, he will forget his nature. One's own habitat is safe to develop self-defence skills,' Rai said, 'If one is in the company of a person for a long time, the risk of forgetting one's qualities and nature may increase.' . Their horns are curved in the shape of a harpoon and are about 75 cm long . Usually an adult Chital is on average 90 cm tall and weighs up to 85 kg . Their average lifespan is 20 to 30 years.