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The Forest Department unit are having a pugnacious clip successful Coimbatore arsenic morphed photos of locations successful and astir Pappampatti and Vellalore are being circulated with a leopard in them.
One specified image, which depicted an African cheetah successful beforehand of a location astatine Vellalore, was wide circulated connected societal media and done WhatsApp arsenic that of a leopard sighted astatine the place. Even though the representation depicted a cheetah (Asiatic Cheetah was declared extinct successful India successful 1952), unit from the section visited the determination to termination the rumours. Forest Department officials said the idiosyncratic who morphed the photo, perchance with an AI tool, could person utilized an representation of a cheetah without knowing the quality betwixt cheetah and leopard.
The section had to nonstop unit to antithetic locations on the banks of River Noyyal adjacent Pappampatti, Kannampalayam, Sulur, and Vellalore successful the past 3 weeks aft photos of leopard were circulated arsenic that of the carnal spotted by radical astatine these locations, they said.
According to them, archetypal videos of leopards adjacent houses from different locations, including 1 from Erode territory and different from a colony adjacent Thondamuthur, were besides circulated arsenic that of a leopard caught connected the surveillance cameras of an concern portion astatine Kannampalayam connected November 12.
The section besides recovered that a photograph of an aged antheral with bandage, which was circulated arsenic that of a idiosyncratic injured successful leopard attack, was besides misinformation.
The section connected Saturday (December 6, 2025) stated that it volition initiate stringent enactment against persons creating morphed photos, depicting them arsenic a leopard seen successful the suburbs, and creating fearfulness among the public.
