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Incidents of leopards crossing over into places inhabited by humans have become common in India. Videos of such incidents also show how clueless people are in dealing with such situations as they try to pelt stones at the animal and make it more violent.
A video of a leopard trying to escape humans chasing it surfaced on social media and it is going viral. The video is reportedly from Mysuru in Karnataka. It was shared on Twitter by Indian Forest Service officers Susanta Nanda and Saket Badola.
The leopard was safely tranquilised by forest department officials later. Nanda shared the video and wrote, “Disturbing visuals from Mysore. The crowd is only adding to the already stressed leopard. Latest, it has been safely tranquilised by the forest Department officials. It’s only mistake was that it was seen. After which the people became wild & the real wild struggled for safety.”
Watch the video below:
“This is what happens when habitats of wild animals are invaded by humans,” commented a Twitter user. “How about we teach at school how to behave when we are in zoo,forest,safari park or when an animal comes to town in situation like these.certainly more awareness is required,” said another. “Its big leopard, Very good news is that leopard saved at the end. People needs to be little civilised towards wild animals. Problem is that people panic when they see bigcat,” wrote a third.
