January
5, 2019
A runaway
leopard which escaped from an safari park in eastern India on New Year's Day
has been recaptured after a massive search operation, an official said
Saturday.
Wildlife
authorities had deployed drones, trained elephants and set up traps with live bait
to find the big cat after it escaped the park located in the foothills of the
Himalayas, 557 kilometres (346 miles) north of Kolkata, capital of West Bengal.
The
four-year-old beast nicknamed Sachin finally returned to its enclosure in the
park late Friday, after a days' long hunt.
Nearly
100 foresters were pursuing the cat after its escape sparked panic in local
villages.
"Sachin
had been raised in captivity and could not hunt to feed itself," Vinod
Kumar Yarad of the West Bengal Zoo Authority told AFP. "We kept a large
chunk of meat inside the leopard's enclosure with its gate left open. On Friday
night, it returned to its enclosure, injured and hungry," he said
Yarad
said the cat was raised in captivity and lacked the ability to hunt in a wild,
and had probably suffered injuries in an attempt to kill a wild boar or
some other animal.
The
animal is being treated for its injuries.
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