Less than a month after the Karnataka High Court quashed a central government circular seeking to prohibit the keeping, breeding, and sale of dog breeds considered “dangerous for human life”, the controversy over citizens keeping dogs as pets has erupted once again, following an incident in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, bordering the National Capital Territory of Delhi. In the incident, a CCTV grab of which has been doing the rounds of social media, a German Shepherd...
Guy Whittal, the handsome and aggressive Zimbabwean middle-order batsman, nippy medium pace bowler and sharp fielder who played 46 Tests and 147 One-Day Internationals for his country between 1993 and 2003, has survived a leopard attack and is recuperating at Milton Parks Hospital in the capital Harare after undergoing emergency surgery, news reports said. Whittal, who runs his family’s game safari in the southeast of Zimbabwe, was reported to have been tracking the leopard, which...
Jammu & Kashmir was in the news once again last week, this time for a viral video of a leopard attacking a man during a farcical attempt to capture the animal. News reports said the leopard entered Fatehpura village in Ganderbal district of central Kashmir and injured two women and a man. Fearing for their safety, locals alerted the authorities. So far so good. What wasn’t good was what followed, as some uniformed men, supposedly...
Picture this. A human goes on a trek somewhere in a forested area and suddenly comes face to face with a bear. In nine out of 10 cases, the human being will freeze or flee. As animal behaviour experts repeatedly caution, there are two things one must never do in front of animals. One should not in any way make them feel threatened, and one must not show fear. Because, in either case, the animal...
In a situation that would have given even most adults jitters, a 12-year-old boy displayed exemplary courage and presence of mind. The boy was playing a game on a mobile phone at the office of Sai Celebration wedding hall along the Malegaon-Nampur Road in Nasik district of Maharashtra. A leopard simply strolled into the office, but what happened next was unusual. The boy, whose father is a security guard at the venue, kept his cool...
