Thursday, December 16, 2010

Leopard found dead in Uttarakhand

A leopard was found dead in Gangolihaat area of Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh district, the third such incident in the state during the past one week, forest officials said on Thursday.


The carcass of 20-year-old leopard was spotted by the locals at Gangolihaat yesterday, who informed the forest officials, Pithoragarh Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) DTG Sambandham said.

Earlier, two leopards were found dead in two separate incidents in Soni reserved forest of Almora district. The postmortem reports of the animals revealed that they had died of pneumonia.

http://english.samaylive.com/

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