A male leopard that escaped from a quarantine center near a Pune zoo has been recaptured after approximately 40 hours. The operation involved over 100 personnel and utilized thermal drone cameras to locate the animal, according to an official report.
The leopard had food on Sunday night. It entered the cage in search of food and was captured. It entered one of the cages set up to trap it at around 9.15 pm on Tuesday, the Pune civic body official said. “Officials found the leopard missing from the quarantine centre situated near the Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park at around 9 am on Monday, following which an extensive search operation involving over 100 personnel from the zoo, quarantine centre, forest department and fire department. “At around 9.15 pm on Tuesday, the spotted animal walked into a trap cage baited with a chicken.
Multiple thermal drone cameras were deployed to trace the wild animal,” he said. The leopard, born at a zoo in Karnataka, was recently brought to the zoological park in Katraj area of Pune, he said. The feline is in good health,” the official said.
