AHMEDABAD: Snatching away the kill from the claws of the lions cost a young
male leopard his
life. In a rare incident, the leopard was killed by two lions when it tried to
snatch away the kill of a cow.
Officials said that in Visavadar
range in Amreli District, a
lioness and lion has made the area their permanent habitat. Also being the
matting period, the couple was staying in isolation.
Recently the two
made a kill of a cow from the nearby village. The two had just killed the cow
and were eating it, when a four-five year male leopard from some where came in
the area and began approaching towards the kill.
The lion seeing the
leopard warned it of coming near the kill and on couple of occasion it even
chased the leopard away in the wild. However, despite repeated warning the
leopard made attempts to snatch the kill.
Finally the lion attacked the
leopard and killed it. Officials said that in the last week this is the second
attack where the lions have at-tacked to save the kill. Earlier it was in
Khambha taluka when a group of lion attacked a couple of farmers who went to
save their cattle from the clutches of the lions.
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