Leopard Dies of Psychological Shock After Getting Trapped in Hen Coop in Kerala’s Palakkad | Information

Palakkad (Kerala): A leopard was killed within the Mekalapara space of Kerala’s Palakkad on Friday night time after it bought trapped within the internet of a rooster coop. Forest officers have been knowledgeable in regards to the incident and arrived on the spot and eliminated the leopard’s physique. Philip, the proprietor of the home the place the incident occurred, mentioned, “I heard sound from the rooster coop within the night time. On popping out, I noticed a leopard hanging within the rooster coop.”

“There have been almost 100 hens within the coop and its hand was caught,” he added. Philip claimed that such incidents have lately change into more and more frequent within the space. “About 10 years in the past my cow was killed and lately 4 goats of a person have been killed,” he claimed.

In keeping with forest officers, the accidents on the leopard`s legs weren’t critical. Nonetheless, the animal died as a result of psychological shock after its leg bought caught within the coop. Nothing suspicious was reported, mentioned the forest officers. The physique of the leopard was despatched for postmortem.

Dr Arun Zachariah who had performed the postmortem of the leopard mentioned that the loss of life of the leopard occurred as a result of seize myopathy.

“Loss of life is because of seize myopathy. The Pattern has been despatched for a toxicology take a look at and based mostly on its consequence last report can be ready. Preliminarily captured myopathy situation is the reason for loss of life. The affect was on muscle organs as a result of hanging which resulted in coronary heart failure and haemorrhage in inside organs and inside bleeding. There was a fracture on the suitable hand of the leopard. Our assumption is that it belonged to the three to 4 years of age group. A tooth was additionally lacking.”