An endangered leopard cat used to be rescued from an underneath-construction building at Lohagara in Chattogram the day old to this (18 December).
A personnel from Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary rescued the animal from the Chunati Bazar build of residing of the upazila around 2pm.
Locals seen the leopard cat in the building and advised the authorities at Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary. The animal used to be subsequently rescued underneath the leadership of Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation Officer Noor Jahan.
Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary Differ Officer Mahmud Hossain and Beat Officer Arifur Rahman had been also recount everywhere in the rescue.
Confirming the rescue, Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation Officer Noor Jahan advised The Alternate Long-established the leopard cat had taken refuge in the underneath-construction building.
“After the rescue, it used to be sent to Dulahazara Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park the day old to this evening for principal care. The wild animal shall be quarantined for 14 days on the park’s health center. This might maybe maybe also be launched into the safari park later,” she said.
“Leopard cats in most cases reside in bushes. This female adult leopard cat might maybe dangle lost its habitat attributable to bush clearing all the plot thru the come location,” she added.
“We have not any longer know when and from the build the endangered animal came to the locality. Therefore, we determined to release it in the safari park relatively than the woodland. There are natural habitats for leopards in the safari park, and once launched, it will gain a mate there,” Noor Jahan further defined.
The leopard cat is a dinky wild cat native to continental South, Southeast, and East Asia.
Since 2002 it has been listed as Least Ache on the IUCN Red Record because it is a ways widely disbursed even supposing threatened by habitat loss and hunting in substances of its differ.
Though about the size of a domestic dwelling cat, the leopard cat has longer legs, a relatively dinky head with a short, slim muzzle, and quite long, rounded ears. The background color of the coat is tawny or light silvery gray and the underneath-substances white, nevertheless the color and pattern of the markings differ widely. Dusky spots of various size and form duvet the physique and limbs, together with the tail. The head is marked with two excellent darkish stripes that lengthen from the inner nook of each and each stumble on to the depraved of the ear.
