Civet cat caught, leopard spotted in Hyderabad amid COVID-19 lockdown
Hyderabad: Two wild animals had been noticed in Hyderbad on Thursday morning and stored officers of Hyderabad’s Nehru Zoological Park and police on tenterhooks for a number of hours. An Asian Palm Civet and a leopard had been seen within the metropolis on Thursday morning.
While the Asian Palm Civet was caught and caged inside an hour, the leopard remains to be preserving the officers, together with the police, on tenterhooks because it was first seen at round 8:30 am. Officials are additionally utilizing drones to trace the leopard.
Below: Asian Palm Civet in cage
At round 6.30 am on Thursday, Nehru Zoological Park officers acquired a name from Hyderabad’s Golconda stating an animal resembling Black Panther was transferring close to Fateh Darwaza in Noorani Masjid space. The zoo officers reached the realm with a cage and different gear and caught the animal which turned out to be an Asian Palm Civet. “We are yet to ascertain from where it must have come and how it entered into a residential area,” mentioned N Kshitija, curator, Nehru Zoological Park.
However, because the zoo officers heaved a sigh of aid, information of a leopard sitting on the highway got here from Mylardevipally space which is simply on the outskirts of the town on the highway to Hyderabad International airport. Even although there’s a lockdown because of the coronavirus COVID-19 menace, many fans gathered close to the leopard. They additionally clicked photographs and movies earlier than the officers reached.
Though the rescue group headed by Dr MA Hakeem, Deputy Director (Vet) together with different officers of the zoo and in addition police officers tried to entice the animal, the leopard ran, jumped a wall and disappeared into the farm subsequent to the highway.
Leopard on the principle highway of Mylardevpally on the outskirts of Hyderabad
Since round 8:30 am when the leopard disappeared into the farm, the officers have been attempting to find the animal and tranquilise it utilizing baits within the cage. But the leopard is but to be sighted.
Officials of Nehru Zoological park, Hyderabad together with police and different rescue personnel on mission to seek out lacking leopard
Just earlier than the sundown, a few drones had been additionally used within the space the place the officers consider the leopard should be hiding however there was no signal of it.
It is kind of baffling even for the officers as to how the leopard strayed on to a busy highway. With darkness engulfing the realm after sundown, it’s much more tough for individuals who try to catch it.
“Though leopards are shy, they’re clever creatures. Leopards keep away from human habitations or human presence however in case of this specific leopard, I’m stunned as to the way it got here on to a highway whereby various automobiles go. It sat on the center of the highway, unmoved for a really very long time as we noticed in movies and photographs,” says Sanjeev Siva, a wildlife photographer.
It stays to be seen how officers entice and catch this specific leopard. More than that the fascinating facet will likely be from the place and which place the leopard strayed into the town.
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