Leopard caught in Madhya Pradesh's Shajapur, released in protected jungles

Indore | Wednesday | 22nd November, 2017

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The leopard fell into it at around 5am, he said adding the wild cat was released in Khivani sanctuary in the evening.Forest team had been trying to track the location of the leopard for the last few days. "We could see its eyes gleaming in the night," he said.In the morning, when he reached the cage, the leopard was furious. Harish Patel , a rescue team member, claimed that the leopard was in the vicinity, when the trap was laid in foliage next to an agriculture field, on the banks of Kalisindh river . Apart from the black bucks in the forests, tamed cattle and dogs make easy prey. The leopards which lose a fight with stronger wild cat, are shunted out of the area," he said adding these wild cats land up in forests near the villages where food is abundant..