Indian Leopard Injures Six in Bangalore School [Article and Video]

The BBC ^ | February 8, 2016

[beaversmom]

A male leopard which entered a school in the Indian city of Bangalore injured six people trying to capture it.

A scientist and a forestry employee were among those mauled during the near 10-hour long effort to corner the dangerous animal on Sunday.

The leopard, which strolled into the Vibgyor International school, was eventually tranquillised and released.

A recent wildlife census estimated that India has a leopard population of between 12,000 and 14,000.

The eight-year-old male was spotted strolling inside the school premises in the Kundalahalli area.

Pictures by Kashif Masood

Read more and see video at link

[AnotherUnixGeek]

What do the families of victims of animal attacks feel when a loved one is killed by a wild animal?

Probably grief and anger, just as they would if a person killed their loved one.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

You should care, if mountain lions were like leopards, there wouldn’t be any in the US.

Fascinating the news recently about a wild jaguar living in the US.

[married21]

I remember vibgyor and roy g biv.

Don’t remember where things are around the house, but I remember vibgyor.

Oh, well.

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I even remember the song I learned in Kindergarten for the colors.

[Rockpile]

No way on God’s green earth would they get this kid to sit in a tree or ground blind on pitch black nights with a goat staked out trying to lure man eating cats into near kissing range. Corbett did it for a couple dozen of these friendly kittycats.

[CARDINALRULES]

Guess there were no card board boxes available either. All kitties love card board boxes no matter how small or large, if they fit, they will sit. ;-`)

[rlmorel]

I read a while back about three poachers who had gone into a protected area in India or Bangladesh, at night in a flat bottomed boat. Naturally, they could have no lights (to remain undetected by the authorities) so they were going along with an electric trolling motor in pitch black on a narrow waterway with some shallow banks on each side. They heard a muffled splash, and switched on a light. There was a huge tiger on the shore, dragging one of them along by the head.

The tiger had apparently leaped through the air from the shallow bank grabbing the guy by the head in mid-flight silently plucking him from the boat without even making it rock.

My brother and I were discussing this one night, and we speculated how awful it would be if there were predators like tigers with wings. We were silent, thinking of it for a few seconds, and then both looked at each other and went “Nahh. They would be hunted to extinction. There would be no such thing in a short time.”

[rlmorel]

One of the things I love about cats, from the 800 lb Siberian Tiger down to the smallest house cat: They are constructed nearly the same way from one end of the spectrum to the other, and they exhibit many of the same behaviors.

When you see a cat with prey in its mouth, its countenance takes on a very wild and feral look, even if it is the most pampered and lovable house cat.

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The Secret Weapon! :-)

[doorgunner69]

Cheetahs are apparently the only big cat that purrs.

[driftless2]

if they had just shot the thing, probably wouldn't have had a single injury, and someone would have a nice throw rug.

I guarantee you if this was in the U.S., it would have been a dead kitty very shortly. My state of Wisconsin has had two incidents in the past five or ten years of bears being killed simply because the authorities thought they MIGHT be dangerous.

One young adult, male bear was shot and killed by the DNR in a La Crosse, Wisc. park because they thought that after it had climbed a tree in the park, it might harm some people when it descended.

Many people were upset that it wasn't tranquilized. The local DNR said it didn't have a tranquilizer gun. So they killed even though the bear was still in a tree and wasn't harming anyone.

[spetznaz]

Something that’s probably just as interesting - India has lions as well, the Asiatic lion, in one small area called Gir forest.

[beaversmom]

Thanks...another thing I didn’t know.

[Bratch]

[PLMerite]

Best image I could come up with:

This might be a cougar in leopard pajamas...

[petenmi]

Wasn’t the school a “Leopard Free Zone”?

[dp0622]

Does she come with the pajamas!!

[PLMerite]

I’m sure that would jack up the price a LOT !

[xone]

They have a ‘corridor’ for them from Mexico into Arizona. All fine and good until someone loses an eye, or worse. Little recent experience in this country dealing with a cat of this kind.

[kearnyirish2]

I guess that makes sense; thanks.