A Risky Rescue: Veterinarian Climbed Down a 30-foot Dry Well to Save a Trapped Leopard

A Risky Rescue: Veterinarian Climbed Down a 30-foot Dry Well to Save a Trapped Leopard
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Tigers, lions, and leopards aren’t exactly the kind of kitty cat to get too close to. For one veterinarian in India, however, he took it upon himself to get dangerously close to a leopard; conveniently, the spotty latter was a little sleepy after a friendly dart.

A scary scene met the villagers of Guwahati, in the northeastern state of Assam, one day in December 2017. They had discovered a leopard in an unusual place near a residential area—and she wasn’t happy one bit.

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