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Four missing leopard cubs reunited with their mother in Nashik

Four cubs, born approximately 15 days ago in a sugarcane field in Nashik district, were recently reunited with their mother by wildlife officials.

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Four cubs, born approximately 15 days ago in a sugarcane field in Nashik district, were recently reunited with their mother by wildlife officials.

The cubs, including two females and as many males, were spotted by labourers in a farmer's field in Nagapur village on March 24.

After receiving information about the cubs, a team of forest officials shifted them in a plastic crate and put it in a cage with a bait with the hope that their mother would come to pick them up, an official said today.

"As per our expectations, the mother leopard appeared around 9.30 PM on Saturday and took away three cubs to a safer place one by one. The feline took away the remaining cub on Monday," he said.

In November, Three leopard cubs were reunited with their mother, four days after they were discovered by locals in a sugarcane field near Nashik.

Locals from Brahmanwada village in Niphad had come face-to-face with leopards on previous occasions while harvesting their sugarcane. When the cubs were spotted on November 8 by a local farmer, he immediately alerted the forest department.

However, as the news spread, locals demanded that the mother be trapped and removed from the village. Forest department officials thought otherwise, and began their hunt to reunite the cubs and the mother, as they felt that the adult leopard in the search for her children, may end up attacking humans.

The forest officials made four unsuccessful attempts in reuniting the cubs with the mother, and eventually contacted senior veterinarian Dr Ajay Deshmukh from Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Centre, which is run by the NGO Wildlife SOS. Deshmukh has successfully reunited several cubs with their mothers.

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