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Forest officials connected Sunday (January 18, 2026) revealed that a young civet cat, which had been recovered trapped successful a chickenhearted cage astatine Pichalavandlapalle colony successful Kurabalakota mandal adjacent the foothills of Horsley Hills successful Annamayya district, was released into the adjacent forest.
According to the details, Sankara (45), a weaver who has a tiny state chickenhearted portion astatine the rear of his house, recovered the civet feline trapped successful a poultry cage connected Saturday greeting (January 17). The feline had reportedly entered the enclosure during the nighttime successful hunt of fowl and was incapable to escape.
He retrieved the animal, but connected the proposal of a person who warned him that possession of an endangered chaotic carnal could invitation superior ineligible action, released the civet into a adjacent wood area. Photographs of the trapped animal, taken connected a mobile telephone and aboriginal posted arsenic presumption updates connected societal media, drew nationalist attraction and alerted the Forest Department.
Forest Range Officer (Madanapalle) G. Jayapradada Rao clarified that preliminary inquiries supported the assertion that the civet was released safely. “The mentation fixed by the weaver appears convincing. After a thorough enquiry and crushed study by our bushed officers, we fto disconnected Sankara. There is perfectly nary scope for immoderate poaching effort successful this incident,” helium said.
The FRO said that the civet cat, besides known arsenic the toddy cat, wields some taste and spiritual value successful the Rayalaseema region. The civer lipid (an excretion of the cat’s sweat glands) is associated with rituals astatine the Lord Venkateswara temple successful Tirumala.
Mr. Rao said that sightings of civet cats person go predominant successful caller years successful villages bordering the Horsley Hills forests.
