Banda Aceh, Aceh, March 28 -- The Aceh Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) sent a sample of dung and ascites of a Sumatran elephant, found dead in a palm plantation area in North Aceh District, to a laboratory.

"The sample will be examined in a lab test to ensure the causes of death of the Sumatran elephant," the agency's conservation head, Kamarudzaman, told ANTARA upon being contacted from Banda Aceh on Wednesday.

The laboratory test would take at least one month, he remarked, adding that the elephant's carcass was found inside a palm plantation area of Jabal Antara Hamlet in Nisan Antara Sub-district on March 24.

The elephant tusks were gone by the time the local residents had found the animal. A team of BKSDA's veterinari...