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A puppy leopard escaped from a residence withinside the Pakistan capital and roamed the streets for hours earlier than being shot with a sedation dart, natural world officers stated Friday. In films published to social media of the six-hour jaunt on Thursday, the younger male cat slips among automobiles earlier than flattening a person and jumping over a lawn fence.
“According to our preliminary investigation, it’s far a puppy animal and now no longer wild at all, however he’s scared and is continuously roaring,” Tariq Bangash, director of the Islamabad Wildlife Management Board, informed AFP.
Pakistan ultimate yr banned the import of distinct mammals after big numbers had been delivered in or bred in current years, inflicting troubles for natural world officers. Big cats are visible as symbols of wealth and strength withinside the country.
The leopard at the unfastened in Islamabad gently injured 4 human beings earlier than it changed into captured via way of means of officers, who took it to the city`s former zoo that changed into close down in 2020 over its remedy of animals.
The creature, elderly among and 3 years old, is now withinside the business enterprise of a brown bear, a tiger and numerous monkeys rescued via way of means of natural world government in current months.
“We have data that numerous human beings in Islamabad and upscale regions of Rawalpindi are preserving wild animals such as leopards as pets,” Bangash stated. Police at the moment are seeking to song down the proprietor of the leopard.
Islamabad is bordered via way of means of the Margalla Hills in which a upkeep region has been installation to shield wild leopards withinside the area.
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