6 months ago
1
A three-year-old leopard has died astatine the Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP) owed to collapsed lungs and cardiomegaly (Hydrothorax and cardiac myopathy).
The BBP said that the leopard had stopped eating since October 30 pursuing which a humor illustration was taken and sent for examination.
“The carnal had a precocious temperature, dullness and anorexia. After 1 week of treatment, the leopard started having provender again successful small quantity. The oral medications were fixed successful the meat. On November 13, it again stopped taking feed. A humor illustration was collected and sent for the introspection and attraction began again,” the BBP said.
However, the leopard was recumbent and succumbed connected November 19 owed to ample quantities of humor tinge fluid accumulated successful the thorax and abdomen causing illness of lungs and cardiomegaly.
The BBP said that the visceral samples person been collected and sent to IAH&VB Lab for further examination.
When the leopard was a three-month-old cub, it was rescued from the BRT Tiger Reserve, Chamarajanagar district, successful January 2023.
The decease of the leopard comes connected the heels of the decease of 31 blackbucks successful the Kittur Rani Channamma Zoo successful Bhutaramanahatti, Belagavi district, owed to bacterial infection.
