RAJKOT: Animals and reptiles seem to be having a free run on their reclaimed territories sans any interference of humans under the lockdown.
While thankfully, no animal-human conflict has happened so far in any of these jungle tales, Una villagers woke up to another episode of lion adventure early on Wednesday morning. A young male adult, aged around five years, trying to prey on cattle at a nearby shed, also took a trip inside a locked primary school building in Gir Somnath district.
However, its schooling misadventure proved costly as the lion jumped, which jumped in from a dilapidated gate, couldn’t find a way out and got trapped inside the building. Later forest department had to rescue by tranquillizing the wild cat.
Talking to TOI, a senior forest officer in Pashwala village said, the area falls within the hub of Gir-Somanth’s lion habitat. Sighting of the wild cats is not so uncommon for the people residing there who have co-existed for long.
“This young lion must have come to the area to hunt as there is a cattle shed in the backside of the primary school. It entered the cattle shed in the wee hours of Wednesday when it was quite dark. But people living near the shed woke up and after spotting the lion, raised an alarm. The sudden burst of noises frightened the animal which quickly sought refuge inside the school building,” he explained.
While villagers called a team of forest department to rescue the trapped lion, it is the punctuality of trackers that saved the people from being harmed outside the school building, he said.
“The school has a dilapidated gate and the big lion could have easily opened it and attacked people who had gathered outside it. Thankfully, trackers closed the door in time with the support of a pipe,” the officer said. The forest trackers then tranquillized the lion, brought it to Jasadhar animal care centre before releasing it in the forest after routine testing.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/lions-school-trip-in-una-ends-in-fiasco/articleshow/75511599.cms
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