Hyderabad: Leopard in ICRISAT campus finally captured after 3 months

Hyderabad | Thursday | 27th June, 2019

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Hyderabad (Telangana): Forest officials were able to capture a fully mature leopard which had entered the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) campus here on March 6. It took us three months and a whole lot of effort to finally capture it,” forest officials told ANI. The forest officials shifted the leopard immediately to Nehru Zoological Park where he was checked for injury by veterinary doctors. “We shifted the captured leopard to Nehru Zoological Park almost immediately where he was thoroughly checked by veterinary doctors. He will further be translocated to a dense forest area and will be released into the wild after evaluation by doctors,” forest officials said..