Anantapur: An eight-month-old leopard cub got stuck in a barbed wire fencing and was injured at a mulberry garden near Konapuram in Penukonda mandal in the district on Friday.
A team of forest officials rescued the leopard and placed it in a cage without using tranquilisers. The cub was sent to the SV Zoo at Tirupati after being treated for injuries by veterinary doctors.
Anantapur district forest officer K. Chandrasekhar said a sericulture farmer had placed the barbed wire fence to ward off animals from his field. The male leopard cub was on its own and foraging for food when it got stuck in the fence. It had reportedly come from the nearby hills.
When the farmers noticed the leopard struggling, they alerted forest officials. A team of forest officials rushed to the spot and rescued the animal by using nets. The leopard was kept in the cage and treated by the veterinary doctors. “We could have released the leopard in the forest but its wounds may get infected. So, we shifted the cub to the SV Zoo to provide treatment. He will be released after he recovers,” Mr Chandrasekhar said.
