Train runs down black panther in Kundapura
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A black panther was discovered lifeless after being hit by a rushing practice on a railway bridge in Kundapura forest vary in the wee hours of Monday.
Passers-by seen the physique of the panther in the center of the Mangaluru-Mumbai monitor on the railway bridge throughout Souparnika river between Nada-Badakere and Arehole in Byndoor taluk of Udupi district on Monday morning. They instantly knowledgeable officers of the Forest Department.
Kundapura Range Forest Officer Prabhakar Kulal instructed The Puucho the panther, round 4 or 5 years previous, should have been strolling in the center of the monitor on the bridge to cross the Souparnika. While panthers are very fast to answer exigencies, this animal one seems to have had no time to reply being on the center of the bridge when the practice reached the spot.
The physique was eliminated and autopsy was performed earlier than burning it, Mr. Kulal mentioned. Black panthers are usually not generally sighted in the area.
