The Pigeon Express
A snow leopard has died after contracting Covid-19 at Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois. Rilu, an 11-year-old snow leopard, struggled with Covid-19 induced pneumonia before death, according to a post on the Miller Park Zoo verified Instagram account. “Rilu arrived at the Miller Park Zoo in 2011 from the Oklahoma City Zoo,” the post […]
A woman was mauled by a leopard during a photoshoot that went wrong at a retirement home for show animals in eastern Germany. The model suffered serious head injuries inside an enclosure that is home to two leopards, Troy and Paris. Police said she was taken to hospital with serious injuries. A mobile alert that […]
Officials in the Chinese city of Hangzhou are searching for a leopard that escaped from a wildlife park about more than a week ago. The animal was one of three leopards to escape from Hangzhou Safari Park. Two were recaptured over the weekend. According to state media, locals reported seeing the animals as early as […]
A dog and a leopard got stuck in a toilet in India for hours, and luckily the dog managed to come out alive. Both the animals were photographed awkwardly sitting in the toilet just meters apart. The incident reportedly took place in the south Indian state of Karnataka, Bilinele village, when the dog entered a […]
A man in Florida was mauled after paying $150 for a “full-contact experience” with a black leopard. 50-year-old Dwight Turner, underwent two surgeries since being attacked by the animal on August 31, his wife Natushka Turner said in a sworn written statement to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Dwight Turner and the […]
In a bizarre set of regulations the Forest Department officials in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh asked farmers in Bijnor and adjoining districts to beat drums, wear helmets, neck pads and take a dog along while visiting fields to apparently save them from leopard attacks. Farmers will be working in their fields in large […]
Ever since nations imposed lockdowns, several reports emerged of wild animals taking advantage of empty streets and venturing into public spaces. A civet cat and a leopard were spotted in two separate incidents and at two different places in Telangana’s capital city Hyderabad. While the civet was seen roaming freely inside a mosque, Noorani Masjid, […]
Residents of a house in Powai area in Mumbai could not believe their eyes after a spotted deer crashed through the cement sheet roof into their house. Forest officials said on Sunday the deer, possibly chased by a leopard, may have crashed into the house in the Hanuman Tekdi area in the process. Forest officials […]
The Forest department with the help of locals captured a snow leopard which had killed over 40 sheep in the past four days in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul and Spiti district, officials said on Sunday. The snow leopard was captured in Geu village of Spiti on Saturday, Kaza Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Hardev Negi said. The […]
In the wake of the novel coronavirus lockdown, a leopardess was spotted in a village in Rajasthan as it found an abandoned house and occupied it for her three cubs. The incident occurred in the Tantol village of the Rajsamand district while officials concerned have installed CCTV cameras in the area to monitor the scenario. […]
A video from 2018 that shows the fight between a leopard cub and a monitor lizard has re-emerged on social media after it was tweeted this morning by Indian Forest Services officer Parveen Kaswan. According to Daily Mail, the video was filmed at Kaingu Safari Lodge in Zambia. In the video, the leopard cub is seen […]
A video of a battle between a leopard and a porcupine has surfaced on social media. The 58-second clip has been shared by Parveen Kaswan of the Indian Forest Service. The video shows the leopard and porcupine engaged in a deadly battle on the highway amid the grasslands. As the leopard attempted to scratch the […]