A one-year-old female leopard cub, which entered a drinking water pumping station near Hogenakkal in Dharmapuri district, was caught on Wednesday. The cub will be released into forest after a health check-up.Forest officials from the district said the cub had been coming to the station since March 24. “The cub came out of the reserve forest near Hogenakkal in search of food and drinking water and entered the station on March 24. The station employees came to know it was a leopard cub when they tried to chase it away,” said a forest officer.They immediately alerted the forest department. “Two teams of forest officials reached the spot and launched a search. But the cub managed to run back into the forest,” the officer said. “Since then the cub has been returning to the station in night and stays in a rainwater harvesting pit.”The employees and villagers requested the forest department to catch the cub. “We set up a cage with goat meat in it. The cub got trapped in the cage around 8pm on Wednesday,” the officer said.Later, the cub was taken to veterinary doctors. “We will try to find the cub’s mother. If we can’t, we will release the cub deep inside the forest,” the officer said.

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