Summary:
A census drive in 2017, 40 leopards with varying rosette patterns were tracked. "Two teams sifted through the database of the 40 leopards, but this leopard's patterns did not match with any of the 40," said deputy conservator of forest Dr Jitendra Ramgaokar. "Then, we took data of male leopards and compared their rosette patterns with the ones of the leopard rescued on Wednesday. THANE: The adult leopard rescued from the basement of a Thane hotel on Wednesday is not among the 40 cats caught on camera traps set up in the forest last year, forest officials said.The task to match the rescued leopard's rosette pattern with data of the 40 leopards proved futile. "...Over the past few years, this leopard may have been a shy cub or behind his mother around the camera traps and so it missed being caught on camera..