‘Outsider’ leopard kills deer in Rajkot zoo of Gujarat

Rajkot: An outsider leopard had entered the RMC run Rajkot Zoological Park (Pradhyumn Park Zoo) late last night and killed a deer there, Superintendent of the Zoo, Ranchhod Hirpara today said.
He said that the incident occurred late last night when a leopard which had come from the outside jungles somehow scaled the outer wall of the zoo situated in the outskirts of the city and entered the enclosure of deer and killed and ate up one of them and later fled. Cages have been kept in and around the zoo to nab the leopard.

The zoo has been closed for the visitors for safety reasons in the wake of the incident and would be opened only after ensuring that the leopard has been nabbed or gone away. The footage of CCTV cameras inside and outside of the zoo were also being analyzed.

Notably in July 2018, a tigress in the zoo has died of snake-bite.

The zoo has 51 species of animals and birds and with over one and a half dozen Asiatic lions and around half a dozen tigers.

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