The Telangana Forest Department captured one of the two leopards that had been wandering about the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) campus in Patancheru, close to Hyderabad, for the previous four days.

According to Forest Department authorities, the large feline was detained on Wednesday evening.

According to them, the rescued leopard is a male that is in good condition and is between five and six years old.

On Monday, the ICRISAT personnel first saw two leopards moving. Two cats were also photographed by the institute’s drones.

The Forest Department staff set up camera traps after being informed by the ICRISAT authorities.

Two trap cages were put up in response to the leopard’s camera trap picture, according to Sridhar Rao, the district forest officer for Sangareddy. To catch the leopard, two goats were set up as bait.

The Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad is now home to the captured leopard. The animal will probably be released into the deep forest after a thorough inspection by veterinary professionals.

The Forest Department is working to capture another leopard that may still be wandering about the campus.

When the ICRISAT workers saw the leopards, they were terrified.

The ICRISAT personnel were happy that one of the large cats had been caught.

According to Forest authorities, the enormous cats may have wandered into the campus from the nearby rocky area long ago, when they were still sub-adults.

Authorities said that this was not the first time a leopard has been apprehended on the expansive ICRISAT campus. In 2014 and 2019, two leopards were captured by Forest Department staff.

The employees of ICRISAT reported seeing two creatures that looked like leopards on Monday. The Forest Department responded by placing 20 motion-activated camera traps around the Patancheru complex, which spans 3,400 acres.

Officials from the Forest Department put up cages with bait after leopards were seen using camera traps.

To oversee search efforts and keep a careful eye on the situation, two Forest Department crews have been camped.