Hyderabad: On Tuesday, Forest Department officials said they have not yet taken any photos from the camera traps installed by the institute to show suspense on the leopard, which is the suspense on the Icressat campus.
The alert was raised early Monday morning after the International Crop Institute’s Semi-Arid Tropical Research Institute (ICRISAT) reported two animals similar to leopards. In response, the Forest Department deployed 20 motion-triggered camera traps on Patancheru’s 3400-acre campus.
Two teams from the Forest Department are still on site, supervising search operations and closely monitoring the situation. Officials said they hope the camera traps provide certain evidence soon.
Four days ago, similar witnesses were a false alarm, officials said. The captured image is then identified as an image of a jungle cat, which may resemble a leopard with untrained eyes when seen from a distance.
But with ICRISAT entering its campus history in 2014 and 2019, Forest officials said they didn’t seize any opportunity and hoped that the installed camera trap will soon produce clear photos that will help them determine if the two animals reported on Monday were leopards.
