A female elephant and its calf strayed from the forest and entered into a banana field near a private engineering college near Kovaipudur outskirts of the city late last night.

Forest officials told UNI today that the baby elephant fell into a small tank in the field.

Forest officials and local people removed it from the tank after taking the mother elephant away to some distance. Later, both the mother and the baby were guided back into the Madhukkari forests,