Mysuru: A one-and-a-half-year old wild leopard broke into Mysuru Zoo here this morning creating panic among the inmates. As a result, the Zoo was closed to visitors for nearly three hours.
The leopard was spotted sitting on the Peepul tree around 9 am by Zoo-keepers Raju and Shekar when they were in the Lion-tailed Macaques’ enclosure watching the animals. They heard the Macaques in the enclosure, making noise, which were supposed to be perched on the trees but now sitting on the ground. Alerted by the Macaques’ panic calls, the Zoo-keepers lifted their heads to find the leopard sitting nearly 60 feet above them on the tree.
