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Forest Department officials successful Hassan territory person successfully reunited 3 leopard cubs with their parent aft continuous efforts for implicit 7 days. The officials placed the cubs successful the country wherever they had observed the question of their mother, and recorded the infinitesimal erstwhile they were reunited, utilizing camera traps.
Three leopard cubs were spotted successful a sugarcane tract astatine Bediganahalli successful Channarayapatna taluk connected October 2. Farmers engaged successful harvesting crops noticed the cubs, took them home, and informed Forest Department officials. Later, Channarayapatna Range wood officials reached the spot and instructed the farmers to temporarily halt their harvest enactment astatine the field. The officials tried to find the parent leopard pursuing its pug marks. They placed the cubs successful a container and installed a camera trap astatine the spot.
The adjacent day, the parent leopard arrived astatine the spot and took distant 1 cub. On the 3rd day, it took distant another. However, it did not travel backmost for the 3rd cub.
Hassan Deputy Conservator of Forests Sourabh Kumar, who successfully conducted specified missions successful the past too, said that the parent leopard had relocated to a safer spot on with the 2 cubs. “In bid to hint its location, we brought a sniffer canine from Bhadra Tiger Reserve. Sniffing the pug marks, it could way for astir 1 kilometre. With the assistance of a thermal drone of the Elephant Task Force moving successful Belur range, we could find the beingness of the leopard. We moved the 3rd cub to the caller determination and placed it successful a box. On the seventh day, the parent took the 3rd cub arsenic well,” the serviceman said.
Hirisave Deputy Range Forest Officer K.S. Shankar and different unit members person played a important relation successful the reunification of the cubs with their mother, Mr. Kumar added.
