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Ordeal ends for leopard

By K. Raju

DINDIGUL JUNE 7. More than a day after it fell into a 75-foot deep well in a farmhouse at Pannaipatti and after a five-hour struggle, a leopard was rescued in the wee hours today.

A fire service team lowered a stretcher into the well, with a giant crane. The animal leapt twice to attack Thangaraj, Anamalai forest ranger, who was aboard the stretcher. The tranquillisers he shot at the animal did not make any impact. Then Mr. Thangaraj shot three rounds of tranquillising darts with an air gun. After 15 minutes, the animal fainted. The five-year-old leopard was pulled out around 2.45 a.m. today. Later, it was taken in a van to the Wildlife Warden Office at Pollachi.

The animal, 137 cm in length and 77cm in height, had, apparently in search of food and water, come to the farmhouse in the village, at the foothills of Thonimalai, part of the Western Ghats in the Kannivadi range.

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