Residents relieved as camera footage confirms dog, not leopard, killed farmer’s lamb at village in Kerala’s Kannur

Residents of Poyyamala, adjacent Kottiyoor-Kelakam, successful Kannur, Kerala, heaved a suspiration of alleviation aft camera footage confirmed that a dog, and not a leopard, was liable for sidesplitting a farmer’s lamb connected Thursday, validating the Forest department’s earlier conclusion.

The lamb belonging to Karakkattu Joseph was bitten to decease by a home oregon feral canine according to the visuals captured by camera traps installed by the Forest department. The incident, which occurred a fewer days ago, had triggered panic successful the colony aft it was initially assumed that a leopard was down the attack.

Following the incident, residents and section representatives alleged a leopard onslaught and staged a protest, concisely detaining wood officials and demanding contiguous action. However, based connected an introspection of wound marks and paw impressions, officials had assessed that the predator was not a leopard and could beryllium a canine oregon perchance a wolf. A conception of residents rejected this uncovering and intensified protest, prompting the section to instal camera traps to found the facts conclusively.

The footage aboriginal confirmed the beingness of a canine astatine the site, ruling retired the engagement of a chaotic predator. Forest officials said they are trained to find the quality of specified attacks by analysing paw prints, the size of the prey and the signifier of the attack.

Kannur Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) S. Vysakh has urged the nationalist to debar speculation and refrain from drafting unscientific conclusions that could pb to unnecessary fearfulness and misunderstanding.