It was not a poacher's gun that killed a leopard in the Lakhimpur forest in Uttar Pradesh. The full-grown cat was mauled to death by a tigress during a fight.
"The incident took place on Saturday night when the tigress was playing with its cubs near Matera village in Lakhimpur and the leopard came there, sparking a fight between them," District Forest Officer RK Singh said. The fight between the two continued for hours in which the leopard was killed, he said. Senior officers of the Forest Department have reached the spot.
Meanwhile, in yet another rhino poaching in Assam, a full-grown female one-horned herbivore, of highly endangered species, was killed near Kaziranga National Park while its horn was taken away. Forest officials said the female rhino which had strayed out of the park along with two males last week, was shot dead by poachers at Kameri Chapori under Numaligarh forest beat office on the outskirts of the Park three days back. The decomposed carcass of the animal was dug out on Sunday by the police after the villagers informed them of foul smell. |