Summary:
Indore, Dec 8 (PTI) The mystery surrounding the sudden disappearance of a six-month-old leopard cub from the city-based zoo continued for the seventh day on Wednesday as a cub rescued by the forest department has turned out to be a male, while the one that had gone missing was earlier said to be a female.
The forest department, however, claimed that the cub that had gone missing from the Kamala Nehru Zoo here during the intervening night of December 1 and 2, was actually a male and a veterinarian had wrongly identified it as a female.
The forest officials had on Tuesday claimed that the leopard cub that had disappeared has been found and rescued.
Talking to reporters on Wednesday, Chief Conservator of Forests (CCF) of Indore range H S Mohanta said that the leopard cub that was rescued from Burhanpur"s forest, was earlier mentioned by the veterinarian as a female in the government documents on the basis of his inference.
"But now it is clear that the cub was actually a male," he said.
Zoo in-charge Uttam Yadav said the forest department handed over a seven to eight month old male leopard cub to the zoo on Tuesday.