A day in the life of a Ranger And yesterday tops it all. Was going to attend a hunting case filed in the court at Sanguem, when I got a call on the cell that two wild Indian Bison have fallen in a well in a farm. The well, about five metres deep and almost ten metres square with dense bushes all round and invisible from a distance, had about two metres deep water (we measured it later). Th etwo Indian Bisons or Gaur had merely stepped into the vegetation and fallen into the water. We got the bushes cleared and go to work. Staff from nearby ranges were summoned. You might be wondering, how does one get a Gaur out of a well. In fact two of them. They are almost a ton in weight! The best way to get them out is by digging. Digging? Yes, digging. Digging the edge of the well and dumping all the soil inside. A very tedious affair indeed. At the same time, consider that the Gaur in the well are in two metres deep water and have been keeping afloat by swimming for hours! So digging we did. The...
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