{"id":49997,"date":"2024-10-27T06:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T06:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/27\/hunt-for-leopard-in-bhubaneswar-ends-with-a-wild-cat-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T06:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T06:23:19","slug":"hunt-for-leopard-in-bhubaneswar-ends-with-a-wild-cat-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/27\/hunt-for-leopard-in-bhubaneswar-ends-with-a-wild-cat-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt for leopard in Bhubaneswar ends with a wild cat &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bhubaneswar: Forest officials in Bhubaneswar denied leopard sightings, suspecting a wild cat instead. Despite traps and cameras near the Airport dumping yard, no evidence of a leopard was found.<\/p>\n<p>The Forest Department launched an extensive search operation after a local resident reported seeing a leopard near the airport\u2019s dumping yard.<\/p>\n<p>The sighting caused widespread panic among residents and prompted immediate action from forest officials. They set up multiple trap cameras and patrolled the area throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p>Initial pugmarks found at the site were inconclusive due to rain, but further investigation revealed the presence of a wild cat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is to clarify that we have not seen any signs of any leopard here. We had laid trap cameras and the visuals show it to be a wild cat. However, we have informed animal experts who will ascertain if it is a wild cat or any other animal,\u201d informed range officer Radhakanta Hota.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u00a0 Bhubaneswar: Forest officials in Bhubaneswar denied leopard sightings, suspecting a wild cat instead. Despite traps and cameras near the Airport dumping yard, no evidence of a leopard was found. The Forest Department launched an extensive search operation after a local resident reported seeing a leopard near the airport\u2019s dumping yard. The sighting caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-states"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Hunt-for-leopard-in-Bhubaneswar-ends-with-a-wild-cat.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49999,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49997\/revisions\/49999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}