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Man plays 'mother' to a leopard cub in Bangalore
Bangalore:
A forest officer plays 'mother' to a stray leopard
cub that he found in a sugarcane field adjoining the Mutur
reserve forest area near Mysore. Vinay Kumar found the
female leopard cub abandoned by its mother in a sugarcane
field. "It is a rare opportunity to have a leopard cub
in my house only. At such vicinity you can never get an
opportunity to have an animal like that," said Vinay Kumar.
Kumar, who is also the district conservator of the forest
area, has named the cub as Sara. He said that Sara though
having become acquainted to human surroundings would be
sent to a national park in Bangalore as the Mysore zoo
is overcrowded. "We enquired at the Mysore zoo at Bannerghatta
but it was quite overcrowded. Now I have got the permission
to send it to the Bannerghatta National Park in Bangalore.
As in captivity naturally it will loose its hunting instincts,"
he added. According to the officer, Sara would be left
in zoo but he feels that the animal has lost his wilderness
in absence of her mother. The most secretive and elusive
of the large carnivores, a leopard is also the shrewdest
over all the wild animals. It is capable of killing prey
larger than itself.
-Dec
18, 2008
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