By Express News Service
BHOPAL: While Cheetah Tourism is but to start out at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP), residents of two adjoining villages, watched one of many male Namibian large cats enterprise into their villages for round 11 hours on Sunday.
Oban, one of many 4 Namibian cheetahs which had been launched into KNP’s open jungles final month, strayed into two adjoining villages – Golipura and Jhar Baroda – within the park’s Agra vary within the morning and returned to the jungle by 5 pm.
Residents of each villages (positioned round 20-25 km from the KNP) awakened on Sunday to the sight of the male cheetah wandering freely within the villages and agricultural plots.
The villagers claimed that the cheetah had hunted two cows after straying into the adjoining villages. While some villagers remained panic-stricken, confining themselves to their homes, others watched it exploring its cherished animal prey from their terrace.
Then others stored guard with lathis in hand, whereas some over-enthusiastic villagers even climbed on timber to catch the treasured glimpse of cheetah, wallowing of their onion fields.
“We saw it (cheetah) from a close distance in the morning. It was wearing a tracker device in the neck (satellite collar) and moving around freely. Villagers later ensured that it stayed confined to outer parts only,” Jhar Baroda resident Madhusudan Singh Jadaun mentioned.
Another Jhar Baroda resident Rakesh noticed the male cheetah from his terrace. “I saw it at around 6 am from my terrace, as it wallowed in the onion crop field on the backside of my house. We’ve been seeing it moving in the KNP’s open jungles and outer limits of the village for around 15 days, but it’s perhaps the first time it ventured into the main village in the daytime. It also hunted two cows in the fields between the jungles and our village, but didn’t harm any villager.”
Coming to know concerning the cheetah’s motion within the two villages, KNP employees (together with the employees which monitored it whereas it was housed in large enclosures for round 4 months) rushed to the spot. Later DFO-Kuno PK Verma too joined efforts to make sure Oban’s return to KNP jungles.
“It’s the normal behaviour of any animal to explore areas outside jungles, particularly in search of suitable prey. But failing to find its preferred prey base and also spotting human disturbance, it will return to the jungles soon,” Verma mentioned just a few hours earlier than Oban returned to the KNP’s thick jungles.
As per KNP sources, Oban and the feminine cheetah Asha have earlier additionally moved out of the jungles, although, normally in nocturnal hours, when there may be least human exercise.
Importantly, 4 Namibian cheetahs had been launched from their large enclosures into the open jungles at KNP final month. While Oban and feminine cheetah Asha had been launched on March 11, the 2 male siblings (coalition) Freddie and Elton had been launched in the identical jungles 11 days in a while March 22.
The 4 Namibian cheetahs had been among the many 8 cheetahs from the southwest African nation which had been trans-located to KNP on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 72nd birthday (September 17, 2022) as a part of central authorities’s formidable undertaking to reintroduce the quickest shifting animal on earth into India’s wild, from the place it was declared extinct in 1952.
Out of the 8 Namibian cheetahs, a feminine cheetah named Sasha died not too long ago reportedly on account of renal failure, whereas one other feminine cheetah Siyaya not too long ago delivered 4 cubs in its large enclosure.
With this, the KNP in Sheopur district of MP’s Gwalior-Chambal area is now residence to 19 cheetahs (7 Namibians and 12 South Africans), in addition to 4 cubs born to one of many three Namibian cheetahs ready in large enclosures for his or her flip to be launched into the open jungles.
BHOPAL: While Cheetah Tourism is but to start out at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP), residents of two adjoining villages, watched one of many male Namibian large cats enterprise into their villages for round 11 hours on Sunday.
Oban, one of many 4 Namibian cheetahs which had been launched into KNP’s open jungles final month, strayed into two adjoining villages – Golipura and Jhar Baroda – within the park’s Agra vary within the morning and returned to the jungle by 5 pm.
Residents of each villages (positioned round 20-25 km from the KNP) awakened on Sunday to the sight of the male cheetah wandering freely within the villages and agricultural plots.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The villagers claimed that the cheetah had hunted two cows after straying into the adjoining villages. While some villagers remained panic-stricken, confining themselves to their homes, others watched it exploring its cherished animal prey from their terrace.
Then others stored guard with lathis in hand, whereas some over-enthusiastic villagers even climbed on timber to catch the treasured glimpse of cheetah, wallowing of their onion fields.
“We saw it (cheetah) from a close distance in the morning. It was wearing a tracker device in the neck (satellite collar) and moving around freely. Villagers later ensured that it stayed confined to outer parts only,” Jhar Baroda resident Madhusudan Singh Jadaun mentioned.
Another Jhar Baroda resident Rakesh noticed the male cheetah from his terrace. “I saw it at around 6 am from my terrace, as it wallowed in the onion crop field on the backside of my house. We’ve been seeing it moving in the KNP’s open jungles and outer limits of the village for around 15 days, but it’s perhaps the first time it ventured into the main village in the daytime. It also hunted two cows in the fields between the jungles and our village, but didn’t harm any villager.”
Coming to know concerning the cheetah’s motion within the two villages, KNP employees (together with the employees which monitored it whereas it was housed in large enclosures for round 4 months) rushed to the spot. Later DFO-Kuno PK Verma too joined efforts to make sure Oban’s return to KNP jungles.
“It’s the normal behaviour of any animal to explore areas outside jungles, particularly in search of suitable prey. But failing to find its preferred prey base and also spotting human disturbance, it will return to the jungles soon,” Verma mentioned just a few hours earlier than Oban returned to the KNP’s thick jungles.
As per KNP sources, Oban and the feminine cheetah Asha have earlier additionally moved out of the jungles, although, normally in nocturnal hours, when there may be least human exercise.
Importantly, 4 Namibian cheetahs had been launched from their large enclosures into the open jungles at KNP final month. While Oban and feminine cheetah Asha had been launched on March 11, the 2 male siblings (coalition) Freddie and Elton had been launched in the identical jungles 11 days in a while March 22.
The 4 Namibian cheetahs had been among the many 8 cheetahs from the southwest African nation which had been trans-located to KNP on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 72nd birthday (September 17, 2022) as a part of central authorities’s formidable undertaking to reintroduce the quickest shifting animal on earth into India’s wild, from the place it was declared extinct in 1952.
Out of the 8 Namibian cheetahs, a feminine cheetah named Sasha died not too long ago reportedly on account of renal failure, whereas one other feminine cheetah Siyaya not too long ago delivered 4 cubs in its large enclosure.
With this, the KNP in Sheopur district of MP’s Gwalior-Chambal area is now residence to 19 cheetahs (7 Namibians and 12 South Africans), in addition to 4 cubs born to one of many three Namibian cheetahs ready in large enclosures for his or her flip to be launched into the open jungles.
