According to Divisional Forest Officer N Bhadraswamy, the leopard may have fallen into the well on Friday night and it was noticed by workers of a nearby tea plantation at around 7am on Saturday. An iron cage with a live chicken as bait was lowered into the well. The big cat took its time before it entered the cage.
"It was a risky operation without applying any sedative to the beast. Catching a live animal without causing any injury is risky. A veterinarian has examined the leopard after the rescue operation and it was found healthy. No injury was found on its body,'' said Sadiq Ali of Wildlife and Nature Conservation Trust.
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The leopard was released later at Parson Valley Forests in the Nilgiri hills.
7 comments:
How did the chicken fare?
I was wondering the same thing ...
Err, it's easy to connect the dots.
I believe the chicken is in chicken heaven now. :)Did they have to use a live one? That was horrible.
Dead raw bloody meat wld have been better!
But leopards are hunters, not carrion eaters. It probably wouldn't have been interested in dead meat until really hungry.
Sorry to say wrong narration of the Rescue story..!! the Trap which was used by us was actually a monkey trapping cage , we covered it fully with a tarpaulin so that it looks like a dark cave or hide out to the leopard which was traumatized because of public and media and wants to hide somewhere.Idea was to give it a HIDING PLACE . Note: an animal which is cornered or trapped will never kill or eat other animal, we removed the chicken (Alive.!!) from the cage after it was released. and the Idea of chicken was by some department personal which we had to take as we were working together. this rescue operation we decided not to sedate the animal as the animal was inside the well for 12- 14 hours and in rain, hungry and very tired as it was trying to escape (it was jumping 15 feet and was hanging to a pipe coming out 1 feet from the well walls). If tranquilized the chances would have been 50-50 for it so we decided to capture it without sedation , we formed 3 teams (1. for the trapping cage, 2. for net cover, 3. emergency unit) and after the green signal from the D.F.O MR BHATRASAMI the whole operation took merely 15 mins. here is a link to the video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdVEcWwn_8Q
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