Newborn fawn reunited with mother deer in Purandar

Pimpri Chinchwad: A newborn fawn was reunited with its mother at Kolvihire village in Purandar taluka by the forest department and Ela Habitat on Saturday.

Vivek Khandekar, chief conservator of forest(CCF), Pune, said that it is a rare instance of a fawn being reunited with its mother.

"A chinkara deer had just given birth to a fawn at Kolvihire village when some labourers reached the artificial waterhole to fill it with water. Seeing them, the mother ran away. The labourers took the fawn to the Jejuri police station," he said.

The forest department employees later took the fawn from the police station and handed it over to the Ela Transit Treatment Centre at Pingori village. “We kept the fawn at the waterhole around 11.30 am on Sunday last. Around 3.30pm, as soon as its parents came near the waterhole, the fawn ran towards them" said Satish Pande, the centre medical director.