CALCUTTA: 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.
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 km north of Kolkata, capital of West Bengal.
“Sachin had been raised in captivity and could not hunt to feed itself,” Vinod Kumar Yarad of the West Bengal Zoo Authority said. “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 probably suffered injuries in an attempt to kill a wild boar.
