Chicken in a basket helped save leopard trapped in well

Indian forest department officials along with fire service personnel successfully rescued a seven-year-old leopard that accidentally fell into a 20-feet-deep dry well at a defunct mushroom processing unit at Elanelli about nine km away from Ooty in Tamil Nadu on Saturday evening. The rescue operation lasted eight hours.



According to Divisional Forest Officer N Bhadraswamy, the leopard may have fallen into the well on Friday night and it was noticed by workers of a nearby tea plantation at around 7am on Saturday. An iron cage with a live chicken as bait was lowered into the well. The big cat took its time before it entered the cage.



"It was a risky operation without applying any sedative to the beast. Catching a live animal without causing any injury is risky. A veterinarian has examined the leopard after the rescue operation and it was found healthy. No injury was found on its body,'' said Sadiq Ali of Wildlife and Nature Conservation Trust.


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The leopard was released later at Parson Valley Forests in the Nilgiri hills.

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