Pilibhit: After feasting on two goats, attacking on and injuring a woman and a youth, a Nepalese stray leopard hunted a baby buffalo in Bundibhood village under Kalinagar tehsil on Friday.It has been learnt that the big cat barged into the house of a villager named Kailash Rajbhar and preyed on the calf. The carcass of the baby buffalo has been sent for the post mortem.“The bellows of the baby buffalo woke us up. The leopard dragged the carcass to a field and consumed it partially, before the villagers could reach the spot”, said Kailash Rajbhar, the owner of the victim calf. The leopard then disappeared in Nepalese territory, he added.The recent attacks by the Nepalese leopard have stroked fear among the residents in the region. Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR) has took notice of the incident and has already sought permission to trap this leopard from the principal chief conservator of forest (wildlife) of UP. PTR also placed a cage with live bait but the big cat hasn’t fallen into the trap as yet.Prior to this, the authorities had trapped two stray leopards in this area on September 19 and on December 2, last year. Both the leopards had migrated from the nearby forest region of Nepal.The deputy director of PTR, Adarsh Kumar said “This big cat has developed a peculiar nature of killing domestic cattle in the Indian territory and then returning back to own habitat”, he said.The departmental force is continuously making attempts to trap this leopard but its caging could be possible only when the big cat stays in the Indian territory, he added.

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