Cheetah Cubs Found in Garden at Malayala

http://www.daijiworld.com, September 13, 2005



Subrahmanya, Sep 13: Three cheetah cubs were found in a garden at Malayala near here on Monday September 12 morning. Two of them were later caught by the Panja forest department and were shifted to safer domain.

Three cubs were found in the garden of one Gopalkrishna Bhat, an agriculturist, which is at Malayala on the Subrahmanya-Sullia road on Monday. Information was passed on Panja forest department who came to the place almost immediately. The forest department staff led by divisional forest officer B Balakrishna Shetty managed to catch two of them and put into a cage. But the third one managed to escape from them.

It was later known that both cubs were one month old males. It is said that they might have come towards the village along with the mother leopard, which, in most likelihood, was scared away by some noise and had to abandon the cubs.

Right now the cubs are under the care of the forest office at Panja and they are likely to be handed over to the Pilikula nature park.

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