CCTV footage that has gone viral on the net shows a leopard walking the corridors of a healthcare college in Karnataka. According to the newspaper Sakshi Post, the leopard strayed into the hostel campus of a healthcare college in Chamarajanagar.
Surveillance camera footage that shows the leopard operating into the hostel constructing was shared on Twitter by Indian Forest Service officer Parveen Kaswan. He initially identified the large cat as a black panther – the prevalent name offered to melanistic large cats – prior to adding that the leopard filmed right here could have been non-melanistic as well.
“A common leopard. With little dark complexion it seems,” he wrote. “Black panthers are also normal leopard only. Though melanistic. This could be non-melanistic also. In night.”
The footage shows the leopard operating the length of a corridor and inspecting a door prior to going out the very same way it had come in.
When a black panther comes for college inspection. Karnataka. @anil_lullapic.twitter.com/754rGgRBx4
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) January 7, 2021
The video has been viewed practically 8,000 instances on the microblogging platform.
“Bagheera has come for admission,” quipped one particular particular person in the comments section.
“Pretty fast paced inspection,” a different noted.
Speaking to Udayavani, Dr Sanjeev, Dean of Chamarajanagar Medical College, confirmed the leopard sighting. As the Government Medical College is attached to a tiger reserve, leopards are typically spotted on campus, the dean mentioned.
College employees had been witness to this certain leopard incursion on January 2.
This is not the 1st time that a leopard has strayed into a college. In 2019, a leopard entered the Srinagar Government Medical College in Uttarakhand.