Cage placed to trap leopard that killed goats near Coimbatore
The Hindu
Forest Department sets trap for leopard in Coimbatore village after killing goats, injuring others; surveillance camera captures attack.
The Forest Department on Saturday placed a cage in a village near Coimbatore to trap a leopard that is believed to have killed at least eight goats of two farmers in two days and injured a few others.
District Forest Officer N. Jayaraj said the cage was placed at Onapalayam village near Thondamuthur.
A team led by V. Thirumurugan, Forest Range Officer, Coimbatore range, placed the trap near the house of a farmer, whose four goats were killed by the leopard early Saturday morning.
A surveillance camera visual of the pen attached to the house showed the leopard attacking goats around 1 a.m. on Saturday. Since the goats were tied up in the pen, the leopard could not get away with the kills. As the carnivore could not escape with the first kill, it killed three more goats. However, it could not take them away.
Forest officials suspect that the leopard that killed four goats on Saturday was the same animal that killed four goats of another farmer at Kempanur village early on Friday morning, as the distance between the locations was around 3 k.m. Besides killing four goats, which were also tethered in the pen, the leopard left four others injured at Kempanur on Friday.
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